Report Summary

  • 11

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    24% of other websites

  • 67

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 32% of websites

  • 50

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    19% of websites

  • 79

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    40% of websites

northwalespioneer.co.uk

Colwyn Bay, Conwy, Llandudno news, sport, events - North Wales Pioneer

Page Load Speed

12.4 sec in total

First Response

1.5 sec

Resources Loaded

10.6 sec

Page Rendered

354 ms

northwalespioneer.co.uk screenshot

About Website

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North Wales Pioneer, all the latest news and sport from Llandudno, Colwyn Bay and Conwy. Get all the headlines, pictures and opinion.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Northwalespioneer.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 1.5 sec and then it took 10.9 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

northwalespioneer.co.uk performance score

11

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.1 s

3/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value12.6 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value17.8 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value18,520 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.165

71/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value73.6 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

northwalespioneer.co.uk

1506 ms

base.css

242 ms

structure.css

244 ms

modules.css

402 ms

util.js

161 ms

Our browser made a total of 359 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 12% of them (42 requests) were addressed to the original Northwalespioneer.co.uk, 7% (25 requests) were made to V4.moatads.com and 6% (21 requests) were made to Edition.pagesuite-professional.co.uk. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (5.2 sec) relates to the external source Aka-cdn-ns.adtech.de.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.6 MB (54%)

Content Size

3.0 MB

After Optimization

1.4 MB

In fact, the total size of Northwalespioneer.co.uk main page is 3.0 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 212.7 kB

  • Original 272.4 kB
  • After minification 259.7 kB
  • After compression 59.7 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 212.7 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 24.8 kB

  • Original 694.4 kB
  • After minification 669.6 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. North Wales Pioneer images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-66%

Potential reduce by 1.3 MB

  • Original 1.9 MB
  • After minification 1.9 MB
  • After compression 642.1 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 66% 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. Northwalespioneer.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 219 (66%)

Requests Now

331

After Optimization

112

The browser has sent 331 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of North Wales Pioneer. 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 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

northwalespioneer.co.uk accessibility score

67

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

Elements with an ARIA [role] that require children to contain a specific [role] are missing some or all of those required children.

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

northwalespioneer.co.uk best practices score

50

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

High

Includes front-end JavaScript libraries with known security vulnerabilities

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

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

northwalespioneer.co.uk SEO score

79

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

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

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Northwalespioneer.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 Northwalespioneer.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 North Wales Pioneer. 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: