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Report Summary

  • 21

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    39% of other websites

  • 86

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 62% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 83

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    46% of websites

theherald.com.au

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

Page Load Speed

62.7 sec in total

First Response

460 ms

Resources Loaded

31.1 sec

Page Rendered

31.1 sec

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About Website

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Breaking news from Sydney, Australia and the world. Features the latest business, sport, entertainment, travel, lifestyle, and technology news.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Theherald.com.au page load time and found that the first response time was 460 ms and then it took 62.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 95% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

theherald.com.au performance score

21

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.4 s

38/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.4 s

9/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value14.7 s

1/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value7,520 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value37.8 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

theherald.com.au

460 ms

www.theherald.com.au

739 ms

app.min.js

802 ms

modernizr-2.5.3.min.js

210 ms

FRM-global.css

816 ms

Our browser made a total of 92 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 5% of them (5 requests) were addressed to the original Theherald.com.au, 15% (14 requests) were made to Nnstatic-a.akamaihd.net and 14% (13 requests) were made to Nnimgt-a.akamaihd.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (6.8 sec) relates to the external source Cdn.fairfaxregional.com.au.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 2.6 MB (49%)

Content Size

5.3 MB

After Optimization

2.7 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Theherald.com.au main page is 5.3 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 2.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 471.8 kB

  • Original 560.3 kB
  • After minification 502.0 kB
  • After compression 88.5 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 471.8 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-11%

Potential reduce by 275.8 kB

  • Original 2.4 MB
  • After minification 2.1 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. Obviously, Theherald needs image optimization as it can save up to 275.8 kB or 11% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-71%

Potential reduce by 885.4 kB

  • Original 1.3 MB
  • After minification 1.1 MB
  • After compression 366.1 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 885.4 kB or 71% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 966.1 kB

  • Original 1.1 MB
  • After minification 1.1 MB
  • After compression 147.3 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. Theherald.com.au needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 966.1 kB or 87% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 31 (35%)

Requests Now

88

After Optimization

57

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 88 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Theherald. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 28 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

theherald.com.au

theherald.com.au

460 ms

www.theherald.com.au

www.theherald.com.au

739 ms

app.min.js

app.min.js

802 ms

modernizr-2.5.3.min.js

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210 ms

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816 ms

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774 ms

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4903 ms

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4821 ms

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6114 ms

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4332 ms

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6111 ms

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6432 ms

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1216 ms

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1127 ms

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6228 ms

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6811 ms

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1013 ms

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479 ms

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478 ms

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811 ms

Accessibility Review

theherald.com.au 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.

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Best Practices

theherald.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

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

theherald.com.au SEO score

83

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

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 Theherald.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 Theherald.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

theherald.com.au

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