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Report Summary

  • 31

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    51% of other websites

  • 86

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 61% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    20% of websites

  • 75

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    32% of websites

southport-reporter.com

Headlines - Southport, Formby, Liverpool - Week Ending 2026-02-05

Page Load Speed

5.4 sec in total

First Response

374 ms

Resources Loaded

4.3 sec

Page Rendered

718 ms

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Weekly index page for Week Ending 2026-03-08 covering local and regional news articles covering the Liverpool City Region.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Southport-reporter.com page load time and found that the first response time was 374 ms and then it took 5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 75% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

southport-reporter.com performance score

31

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.0 s

84/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.7 s

16/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.9 s

9/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,960 ms

8/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.069

96/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value15.8 s

6/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

southport-reporter.com

374 ms

adsbygoogle.js

56 ms

all.js

208 ms

urchin.js

22 ms

2018-ticker.php

1475 ms

Our browser made a total of 58 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 3% of them (2 requests) were addressed to the original Southport-reporter.com, 47% (27 requests) were made to Southportreporter.com and 7% (4 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (3.8 sec) relates to the external source Business.merseyreporter.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 483.1 kB (7%)

Content Size

6.7 MB

After Optimization

6.2 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript

In fact, the total size of Southport-reporter.com main page is 6.7 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. 40% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 6.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 86.8 kB

  • Original 105.0 kB
  • After minification 90.8 kB
  • After compression 18.2 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 14.3 kB, which is 14% 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 86.8 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 271.4 kB

  • Original 6.2 MB
  • After minification 5.9 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. Southport Reporter images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-28%

Potential reduce by 124.8 kB

  • Original 438.4 kB
  • After minification 438.4 kB
  • After compression 313.6 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 124.8 kB or 28% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 9 (17%)

Requests Now

53

After Optimization

44

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript

The browser has sent 53 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Southport Reporter. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 10 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

southport-reporter.com

southport-reporter.com

374 ms

adsbygoogle.js

adsbygoogle.js

56 ms

all.js

all.js

208 ms

urchin.js

urchin.js

22 ms

2018-ticker.php

2018-ticker.php

1475 ms

counter.js

counter.js

40 ms

ga.js

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3 ms

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14 ms

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16 ms

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112 ms

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877 ms

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1521 ms

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791 ms

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704 ms

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804 ms

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1370 ms

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1015 ms

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918 ms

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1920 ms

Student%20nominated%20for%20International%20Conservation%20Award.jpg

Student%20nominated%20for%20International%20Conservation%20Award.jpg

1591 ms

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weather-widget-generator.js

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office.jpg

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office.jpg

410 ms

Accessibility Review

southport-reporter.com accessibility score

86

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

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

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

Best Practices

southport-reporter.com best practices score

58

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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

southport-reporter.com SEO score

75

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

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    WINDOWS-1252

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Southport-reporter.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Southport-reporter.com main page’s claimed encoding is windows-1252. 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

southport-reporter.com

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of Southport Reporter. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: