Report Summary

  • 22

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    40% of other websites

  • 89

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 72% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 84

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    53% of websites

kentnews.co.uk

Romford News, Sport & Things to do | Romford Recorder

Page Load Speed

7.9 sec in total

First Response

949 ms

Resources Loaded

6.1 sec

Page Rendered

800 ms

kentnews.co.uk screenshot

About Website

Welcome to kentnews.co.uk homepage info - get ready to check Kent News best content for United Kingdom right away, or after learning these important things about kentnews.co.uk

Latest news, sport, and things to do for Romford, Hornchurch, Havering and the surrounding London areas from the Romford Recorder.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Kentnews.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 949 ms and then it took 6.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 80% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

kentnews.co.uk performance score

22

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.6 s

63/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.0 s

6/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.9 s

22/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,940 ms

3/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.149

76/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value22.2 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

home

949 ms

css

316 ms

jshead

1577 ms

site_specific_0_6_7_7_232908

165 ms

kent_site_logo_css_0_03_7_232925

167 ms

Our browser made a total of 296 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 23% of them (68 requests) were addressed to the original Kentnews.co.uk, 5% (15 requests) were made to Ums.adtech.de and 4% (11 requests) were made to V4.moatads.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.8 sec) relates to the external source Edition.pagesuite-professional.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 789.7 kB (18%)

Content Size

4.5 MB

After Optimization

3.7 MB

In fact, the total size of Kentnews.co.uk main page is 4.5 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 3.6 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 175.1 kB

  • Original 206.0 kB
  • After minification 183.7 kB
  • After compression 30.9 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 22.3 kB, which is 11% of the original size. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 175.1 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 168.5 kB

  • Original 3.6 MB
  • After minification 3.4 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. Kent News images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-61%

Potential reduce by 431.0 kB

  • Original 702.6 kB
  • After minification 685.3 kB
  • After compression 271.6 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 431.0 kB or 61% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 15.0 kB

  • Original 18.0 kB
  • After minification 14.8 kB
  • After compression 2.9 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. Kentnews.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 15.0 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 181 (65%)

Requests Now

278

After Optimization

97

The browser has sent 278 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Kent News. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 59 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

kentnews.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

kentnews.co.uk best practices score

67

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

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

kentnews.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 Kentnews.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 Kentnews.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 Kent News. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: