Report Summary

  • 29

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    49% of other websites

  • 83

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 54% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 99

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    93% of websites

theexaminer.com.au

Latest Launceston and Tasmania news, sport and weather | The Examiner | Launceston, TAS

Page Load Speed

5.9 sec in total

First Response

14 ms

Resources Loaded

4.2 sec

Page Rendered

1.7 sec

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Key Findings

We analyzed Theexaminer.com.au page load time and found that the first response time was 14 ms and then it took 5.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 80% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

theexaminer.com.au performance score

29

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.7 s

61/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.1 s

46/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value16.5 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value9,160 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.138

79/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value45.8 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

theexaminer.com.au

14 ms

www.examiner.com.au

73 ms

www.examiner.com.au

1088 ms

1d2018f13679b806.css

44 ms

069eae6bc01ff555.css

54 ms

Our browser made a total of 175 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Theexaminer.com.au, 89% (155 requests) were made to Examiner.com.au and 8% (14 requests) were made to Cdn.newsnow.io. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.4 sec) relates to the external source Cdn.newsnow.io.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 610.6 kB (29%)

Content Size

2.1 MB

After Optimization

1.5 MB

In fact, the total size of Theexaminer.com.au main page is 2.1 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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 719.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 578.5 kB

  • Original 671.4 kB
  • After minification 670.2 kB
  • After compression 92.8 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. 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 578.5 kB or 86% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 972 B

  • Original 719.0 kB
  • After minification 718.1 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 Examiner images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 2.7 kB

  • Original 666.6 kB
  • After minification 666.6 kB
  • After compression 663.9 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.

CSS Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 28.4 kB

  • Original 35.5 kB
  • After minification 7.7 kB
  • After compression 7.1 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. Theexaminer.com.au needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 28.4 kB or 80% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 61 (35%)

Requests Now

172

After Optimization

111

The browser has sent 172 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of The Examiner. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 54 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 9 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

theexaminer.com.au accessibility score

83

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

button, link, and menuitem elements do not have accessible names.

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

Links do not have a discernible name

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

High

Some elements have a [tabindex] value greater than 0

Best Practices

theexaminer.com.au best practices score

83

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

theexaminer.com.au SEO score

99

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Theexaminer.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 Theexaminer.com.au 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 data is detected on the main page of The Examiner. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: