Report Summary

  • 20

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    37% of other websites

  • 89

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 71% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 84

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    52% of websites

greatyarmouthmercury.co.uk

Great Yarmouth News, Sport & Things to do | Great Yarmouth Mercury

Page Load Speed

18.4 sec in total

First Response

645 ms

Resources Loaded

15.5 sec

Page Rendered

2.2 sec

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About Website

Welcome to greatyarmouthmercury.co.uk homepage info - get ready to check Great Yarmouth Mercury best content for United Kingdom right away, or after learning these important things about greatyarmouthmercury.co.uk

Latest news, sport, and things to do for Great Yarmouth, Caister and the surrounding Norfolk areas from the Great Yarmouth Mercury.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Greatyarmouthmercury.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 645 ms and then it took 17.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is an excellent result, as only a small number of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

greatyarmouthmercury.co.uk performance score

20

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.3 s

40/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.0 s

6/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.6 s

25/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,740 ms

3/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.148

76/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value21.0 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

home

645 ms

css

525 ms

jshead

2988 ms

mercury_gallery_fix_v1_9_7_197070

302 ms

gym_css_0_15_7_152637

301 ms

Our browser made a total of 406 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 9% of them (35 requests) were addressed to the original Greatyarmouthmercury.co.uk, 11% (46 requests) were made to Jobs24.co.uk and 8% (33 requests) were made to Images.archant.co.uk. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (3 sec) belongs to the original domain Greatyarmouthmercury.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 686.6 kB (18%)

Content Size

3.9 MB

After Optimization

3.2 MB

In fact, the total size of Greatyarmouthmercury.co.uk main page is 3.9 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. Images take 3.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 264.4 kB

  • Original 315.5 kB
  • After minification 284.3 kB
  • After compression 51.1 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 264.4 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 146.0 kB

  • Original 3.1 MB
  • After minification 2.9 MB

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. Great Yarmouth Mercury images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-56%

Potential reduce by 259.9 kB

  • Original 466.2 kB
  • After minification 448.8 kB
  • After compression 206.2 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 259.9 kB or 56% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 16.2 kB

  • Original 19.3 kB
  • After minification 14.4 kB
  • After compression 3.1 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. Greatyarmouthmercury.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 16.2 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 213 (58%)

Requests Now

366

After Optimization

153

The browser has sent 366 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Great Yarmouth Mercury. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 58 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 8 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

greatyarmouthmercury.co.uk accessibility score

89

Accessibility Issues

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

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

greatyarmouthmercury.co.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

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

greatyarmouthmercury.co.uk SEO score

84

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

High

Links do not have descriptive text

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

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 Greatyarmouthmercury.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 Greatyarmouthmercury.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 data is detected on the main page of Great Yarmouth Mercury. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: