Report Summary

  • 58

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    74% of other websites

  • 88

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 69% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    84% of websites

Page Load Speed

2.9 sec in total

First Response

213 ms

Resources Loaded

2.2 sec

Page Rendered

519 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Eastmidlandsnews.org.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 213 ms and then it took 2.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

eastmidlandsnews.org.uk performance score

58

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.1 s

45/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.3 s

21/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.9 s

48/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value390 ms

69/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.001

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value5.0 s

77/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

eastmidlandsnews.org.uk

213 ms

www.eastmidlandsnews.org.uk

735 ms

style.css

270 ms

style.responsive.css

172 ms

jquery.js

414 ms

Our browser made a total of 52 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 31% of them (16 requests) were addressed to the original Eastmidlandsnews.org.uk, 12% (6 requests) were made to Nottinghampost.com and 10% (5 requests) were made to Pagead2.googlesyndication.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (735 ms) belongs to the original domain Eastmidlandsnews.org.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 257.6 kB (54%)

Content Size

480.6 kB

After Optimization

223.0 kB

In fact, the total size of Eastmidlandsnews.org.uk main page is 480.6 kB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 45% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 294.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-74%

Potential reduce by 27.6 kB

  • Original 37.1 kB
  • After minification 35.5 kB
  • After compression 9.6 kB

HTML content can be minified and compressed by a website’s server. The most efficient way is to compress content using GZIP which reduces data amount travelling through the network between server and browser. HTML code on this page is well minified. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 27.6 kB or 74% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-10%

Potential reduce by 8.4 kB

  • Original 82.8 kB
  • After minification 74.4 kB

Image size optimization can help to speed up a website loading time. The chart above shows the difference between the size before and after optimization. Eastmidlandsnews images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-56%

Potential reduce by 164.6 kB

  • Original 294.9 kB
  • After minification 261.9 kB
  • After compression 130.3 kB

It’s better to minify JavaScript in order to improve website performance. The diagram shows the current total size of all JavaScript files against the prospective JavaScript size after its minification and compression. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 164.6 kB or 56% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 57.0 kB

  • Original 65.8 kB
  • After minification 50.4 kB
  • After compression 8.8 kB

CSS files minification is very important to reduce a web page rendering time. The faster CSS files can load, the earlier a page can be rendered. Eastmidlandsnews.org.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 57.0 kB or 87% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 20 (41%)

Requests Now

49

After Optimization

29

The browser has sent 49 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Eastmidlandsnews. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 15 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

eastmidlandsnews.org.uk accessibility score

88

Accessibility Issues

Names and labels

These are opportunities to improve the semantics of the controls in your application. This may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Contrast

These are opportunities to improve the legibility of your content.

Impact

Issue

High

Background and foreground colors do not have a sufficient contrast ratio.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Best Practices

eastmidlandsnews.org.uk best practices score

75

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

eastmidlandsnews.org.uk SEO score

93

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

Mobile Friendly

Make sure your pages are mobile friendly so users don’t have to pinch or zoom in order to read the content pages. [Learn more](https://developers.google.com/search/mobile-sites/).

Impact

Issue

High

Document uses legible font sizes

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    N/A

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Eastmidlandsnews.org.uk can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Unfortunately we cannot identify language used on the page (probably there is a mix of languages, too little text or something else), while the claimed language is English. Our system also found out that Eastmidlandsnews.org.uk main page’s claimed encoding is utf-8. Use of this encoding format is the best practice as the main page visitors from all over the world won’t have any issues with symbol transcription.

Social Sharing Optimization

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Eastmidlandsnews. Lack of Open Graph description can be counter-productive for their social media presence, as such a description allows converting a website homepage (or other pages) into good-looking, rich and well-structured posts, when it is being shared on Facebook and other social media. For example, adding the following code snippet into HTML <head> tag will help to represent this web page correctly in social networks: