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thenorthernherald.com

Leading News Portal Jammu Kashmir - The Northern Herald

Page Load Speed

59.5 sec in total

First Response

5.5 sec

Resources Loaded

46.3 sec

Page Rendered

7.7 sec

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About Website

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Nh1 News, a part of The Northern Herald News is one of Jammu Kashmir's leading news portal covering all the local regions including katra, kathua & akhnoor

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Key Findings

We analyzed Thenorthernherald.com page load time and found that the first response time was 5.5 sec and then it took 54 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is an excellent result, as only a small number of websites can load faster. Unfortunately, there were 2 request timeouts, which can generally increase the web page load time, as the browser stays idle while waiting for website response.

Performance Metrics

thenorthernherald.com performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

thenorthernherald.com

5526 ms

www.thenorthernherald.com

4279 ms

bootstrap.min.css

575 ms

icon

98 ms

font-awesome.min.css

569 ms

Our browser made a total of 170 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 76% of them (130 requests) were addressed to the original Thenorthernherald.com, 5% (9 requests) were made to Img.youtube.com and 5% (8 requests) were made to Youtube.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (20.4 sec) relates to the external source Accuweather.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 794.0 kB (15%)

Content Size

5.2 MB

After Optimization

4.4 MB

In fact, the total size of Thenorthernherald.com 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. 85% 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 4.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 249.8 kB

  • Original 330.3 kB
  • After minification 330.2 kB
  • After compression 80.4 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 249.8 kB or 76% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 103.3 kB

  • Original 4.0 MB
  • After minification 3.9 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. The Northern Herald images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-11%

Potential reduce by 28.6 kB

  • Original 268.8 kB
  • After minification 267.4 kB
  • After compression 240.2 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 28.6 kB or 11% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 412.3 kB

  • Original 540.7 kB
  • After minification 540.6 kB
  • After compression 128.4 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. Thenorthernherald.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 412.3 kB or 76% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 43 (26%)

Requests Now

163

After Optimization

120

The browser has sent 163 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of The Northern Herald. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 29 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 16 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

thenorthernherald.com SEO score

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Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    ZX

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Thenorthernherald.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and it does not match the claimed language. Our system also found out that Thenorthernherald.com 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 Northern Herald. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: