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Report Summary

  • 22

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    40% of other websites

  • 66

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 31% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 89

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    67% of websites

newsnow.co.uk

NewsNow: The Independent News Discovery Platform

Page Load Speed

3.9 sec in total

First Response

190 ms

Resources Loaded

2.4 sec

Page Rendered

1.3 sec

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About Website

Click here to check amazing News Now content for United Kingdom. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about newsnow.co.uk

Read the latest news from thousands of sources on NewsNow, the independent news discovery platform. Breaking news, analysis and opinion, updated every five minutes.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Newsnow.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 190 ms and then it took 3.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 60% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

newsnow.co.uk performance score

22

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.9 s

4/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.9 s

14/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.9 s

23/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value4,250 ms

1/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.011

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value20.9 s

2/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

newsnow.co.uk

190 ms

www.newsnow.co.uk

343 ms

235 ms

gtm.js

185 ms

38_0_e1ee3e42c870c9e7de3a8db2a185d49e.js

245 ms

Our browser made a total of 25 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 60% of them (15 requests) were addressed to the original Newsnow.co.uk, 12% (3 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com and 12% (3 requests) were made to Use.typekit.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (551 ms) belongs to the original domain Newsnow.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 406.4 kB (71%)

Content Size

573.7 kB

After Optimization

167.4 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Newsnow.co.uk main page is 573.7 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. 50% of websites need less resources to load. HTML takes 317.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 275.6 kB

  • Original 317.5 kB
  • After minification 308.7 kB
  • After compression 41.9 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 275.6 kB or 87% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 154 B

  • Original 19.3 kB
  • After minification 19.1 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. News Now images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 159 B

  • Original 81.5 kB
  • After minification 81.5 kB
  • After compression 81.4 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 130.5 kB

  • Original 155.4 kB
  • After minification 154.5 kB
  • After compression 25.0 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. Newsnow.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 130.5 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 10 (50%)

Requests Now

20

After Optimization

10

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 20 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of News Now. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 11 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

newsnow.co.uk

newsnow.co.uk

190 ms

www.newsnow.co.uk

www.newsnow.co.uk

343 ms

235 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

185 ms

38_0_e1ee3e42c870c9e7de3a8db2a185d49e.js

38_0_e1ee3e42c870c9e7de3a8db2a185d49e.js

245 ms

8_0_39f45d1a53d86f6361787955068c3254.js

8_0_39f45d1a53d86f6361787955068c3254.js

471 ms

1_0_56ed463f0d0f78d746377195227a3b96.css

1_0_56ed463f0d0f78d746377195227a3b96.css

469 ms

33_0_abc104c2e5ad06f60ccdf4f7a29eccba.js

33_0_abc104c2e5ad06f60ccdf4f7a29eccba.js

464 ms

mss5xmd.css

mss5xmd.css

238 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

238 ms

2_0_ce1844852e2265b6d7235bc81473c595.js

2_0_ce1844852e2265b6d7235bc81473c595.js

551 ms

37_0_94f33f9dd180002d0bc61ac620f1923b.js

37_0_94f33f9dd180002d0bc61ac620f1923b.js

494 ms

OneSignalSDK.js

OneSignalSDK.js

238 ms

p.css

p.css

41 ms

fc_20160316.png

fc_20160316.png

97 ms

nn-logo-inline.svg

nn-logo-inline.svg

97 ms

1.gif

1.gif

102 ms

d

d

14 ms

d

d

15 ms

f_20160316.png

f_20160316.png

86 ms

nn-dark.svg

nn-dark.svg

260 ms

js

js

209 ms

js

js

369 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

354 ms

pharos.js

pharos.js

349 ms

Accessibility Review

newsnow.co.uk accessibility score

66

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

[aria-*] attributes do not match their roles

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

Best Practices

newsnow.co.uk best practices score

83

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

newsnow.co.uk SEO score

89

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

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

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Newsnow.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 Newsnow.co.uk main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

newsnow.co.uk

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of News Now. 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: