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Visit themercury.news.com.auWe analyzed Themercury.news.com.au page load time and found that the first response time was 465 ms and then it took 8.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 85% of websites can load faster.
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Our browser made a total of 462 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Themercury.news.com.au, 15% (70 requests) were made to Cdn.newsapi.com.au and 10% (48 requests) were made to Pixel.rubiconproject.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.2 sec) relates to the external source Themercury.com.au.
Page size can be reduced by 1.7 MB (42%)
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In fact, the total size of Themercury.news.com.au main page is 4.1 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. 85% 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 2.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.
Potential reduce by 211.8 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 41.3 kB, which is 16% 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 211.8 kB or 84% of the original size.
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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. The Mercury News images are well optimized though.
Potential reduce by 1.3 MB
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 65% of the original size.
Potential reduce by 167.0 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. Themercury.news.com.au needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 167.0 kB or 46% of the original size.
Number of requests can be reduced by 256 (64%)
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The browser has sent 403 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of The Mercury 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 118 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 15 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.
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themercury.news.com.au accessibility score
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Buttons do not have an accessible name
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Background and foreground colors do not have a sufficient contrast ratio.
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[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.
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Does not use HTTPS
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Detected JavaScript libraries
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