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ellesmereportfirst.co.uk

Chester Standard | Latest Local Chester and Ellesmere Port News & Sport in Cheshire, UK | News from your Local Newspaper covering Cheshire West and Ch...

Page Load Speed

12.1 sec in total

First Response

248 ms

Resources Loaded

11.2 sec

Page Rendered

649 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Ellesmereportfirst.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 248 ms and then it took 11.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 90% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

ellesmereportfirst.co.uk performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

ellesmereportfirst.co.uk

248 ms

www.chesterfirst.co.uk

243 ms

www.chesterstandard.co.uk

1507 ms

base.css

312 ms

structure.css

312 ms

Our browser made a total of 373 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Ellesmereportfirst.co.uk, 11% (42 requests) were made to Chesterstandard.co.uk and 11% (40 requests) were made to V4.moatads.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (6.5 sec) relates to the external source Edition.pagesuite-professional.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.7 MB (53%)

Content Size

3.2 MB

After Optimization

1.5 MB

In fact, the total size of Ellesmereportfirst.co.uk main page is 3.2 MB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 80% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Javascripts take 1.9 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 243.7 kB

  • Original 311.6 kB
  • After minification 297.6 kB
  • After compression 67.9 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 243.7 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 44.3 kB

  • Original 806.0 kB
  • After minification 761.7 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. Ellesmere Port First images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-67%

Potential reduce by 1.3 MB

  • Original 1.9 MB
  • After minification 1.9 MB
  • After compression 632.6 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 1.3 MB or 67% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 117.9 kB

  • Original 138.8 kB
  • After minification 108.5 kB
  • After compression 20.9 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. Ellesmereportfirst.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 117.9 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 231 (68%)

Requests Now

341

After Optimization

110

The browser has sent 341 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Ellesmere Port First. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 64 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 9 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

ellesmereportfirst.co.uk SEO score

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Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Ellesmereportfirst.co.uk can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and it matches the claimed language. Our system also found out that Ellesmereportfirst.co.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 Ellesmere Port First. 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: