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Report Summary

  • 86

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    89% of other websites

  • 90

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 75% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 79

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    40% of websites

the-news.net

Algarve, Lisbon & Portugal Golf News

Page Load Speed

1.1 sec in total

First Response

226 ms

Resources Loaded

660 ms

Page Rendered

213 ms

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About Website

Visit the-news.net now to see the best up-to-date The News content and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about the-news.net

Home Page for the resident living in Portugal. Latest news, forecasts, calendars & more. Portugal, Algarve, Lisbon & Oporto News for the resident.

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Key Findings

We analyzed The-news.net page load time and found that the first response time was 226 ms and then it took 873 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 15% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

the-news.net performance score

86

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.5 s

66/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.6 s

62/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value2.5 s

97/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value70 ms

99/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value2.7 s

97/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

the-news.net

226 ms

portugalnews.gif

100 ms

images

43 ms

spacer.gif

87 ms

images

42 ms

Our browser made a total of 26 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 15% of them (4 requests) were addressed to the original The-news.net, 15% (4 requests) were made to Tpc.googlesyndication.com and 12% (3 requests) were made to T1.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (226 ms) belongs to the original domain The-news.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 37.7 kB (39%)

Content Size

97.8 kB

After Optimization

60.1 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript

In fact, the total size of The-news.net main page is 97.8 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. 30% of websites need less resources to load. HTML takes 48.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 37.4 kB

  • Original 48.6 kB
  • After minification 48.5 kB
  • After compression 11.2 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. 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 37.4 kB or 77% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 208 B

  • Original 17.6 kB
  • After minification 17.3 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. The News images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 143 B

  • Original 31.7 kB
  • After minification 31.6 kB
  • After compression 31.5 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.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 5 (21%)

Requests Now

24

After Optimization

19

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript

The browser has sent 24 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of The 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 6 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

the-news.net

the-news.net

226 ms

portugalnews.gif

portugalnews.gif

100 ms

images

images

43 ms

spacer.gif

spacer.gif

87 ms

images

images

42 ms

images

images

41 ms

images

images

40 ms

images

images

18 ms

show_ads.js

show_ads.js

9 ms

google.gif

google.gif

174 ms

zrt_lookup.html

zrt_lookup.html

40 ms

show_ads_impl.js

show_ads_impl.js

49 ms

images

images

27 ms

images

images

39 ms

images

images

146 ms

ads

ads

214 ms

ga.js

ga.js

15 ms

osd.js

osd.js

43 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

18 ms

m_js_controller.js

m_js_controller.js

32 ms

abg.js

abg.js

45 ms

favicon

favicon

46 ms

googlelogo_color_112x36dp.png

googlelogo_color_112x36dp.png

39 ms

nessie_icon_tiamat_white.png

nessie_icon_tiamat_white.png

29 ms

s

s

17 ms

x_button_blue2.png

x_button_blue2.png

10 ms

Accessibility Review

the-news.net accessibility score

90

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.

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

the-news.net best practices score

83

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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

the-news.net SEO score

79

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

robots.txt is not valid

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

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 The-news.net 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 The-news.net 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

the-news.net

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