Report Summary

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sunherald.com.au

Australian Breaking News Headlines & World News Online | SMH.com.au

Page Load Speed

4.9 sec in total

First Response

493 ms

Resources Loaded

3.4 sec

Page Rendered

946 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Sunherald.com.au page load time and found that the first response time was 493 ms and then it took 4.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 65% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

sunherald.com.au performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

sunherald.com.au

493 ms

www.sunherald.com.au

537 ms

www.smh.com.au

123 ms

device-detect-1.59.2-59.js

13 ms

satelliteLib-fc35eab6559a121532bab25bb77b90e6a30892b9.js

200 ms

Our browser made a total of 251 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (2 requests) were addressed to the original Sunherald.com.au, 50% (126 requests) were made to Smh.com.au and 7% (17 requests) were made to Assets.adobedtm.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (537 ms) belongs to the original domain Sunherald.com.au.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 2.0 MB (39%)

Content Size

5.2 MB

After Optimization

3.2 MB

In fact, the total size of Sunherald.com.au main page is 5.2 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 2.5 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 402.5 kB

  • Original 477.4 kB
  • After minification 419.0 kB
  • After compression 74.9 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 58.4 kB, which is 12% 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 402.5 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 125.0 kB

  • Original 2.5 MB
  • After minification 2.3 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. Sunherald images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-64%

Potential reduce by 1.3 MB

  • Original 2.0 MB
  • After minification 2.0 MB
  • After compression 729.0 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 64% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 194.3 kB

  • Original 257.4 kB
  • After minification 253.7 kB
  • After compression 63.1 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. Sunherald.com.au needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 194.3 kB or 75% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 82 (34%)

Requests Now

242

After Optimization

160

The browser has sent 242 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Sunherald. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 70 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

sunherald.com.au SEO score

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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 Sunherald.com.au 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 Sunherald.com.au 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

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