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Report Summary

  • 37

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    57% of other websites

  • 72

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 38% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 90

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    68% of websites

thescottishsun.co.uk

The Scottish Sun – Latest news, sports, showbiz, and celebrities

Page Load Speed

1.6 sec in total

First Response

289 ms

Resources Loaded

1.2 sec

Page Rendered

82 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Thescottishsun.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 289 ms and then it took 1.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 25% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

thescottishsun.co.uk performance score

37

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.2 s

43/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.3 s

70/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value14.3 s

1/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value10,840 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value37.0 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

thescottishsun.co.uk

289 ms

www.thescottishsun.co.uk

115 ms

358 ms

sun.appcache

19 ms

main.css

65 ms

Our browser made a total of 15 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 87% of them (13 requests) were addressed to the original Thescottishsun.co.uk, 7% (1 request) were made to Widget.cloud.opta.net and 7% (1 request) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (358 ms) belongs to the original domain Thescottishsun.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 2.1 MB (72%)

Content Size

2.9 MB

After Optimization

793.5 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Thescottishsun.co.uk main page is 2.9 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. 50% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 1.5 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-88%

Potential reduce by 593.9 kB

  • Original 672.5 kB
  • After minification 672.5 kB
  • After compression 78.6 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 593.9 kB or 88% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-30%

Potential reduce by 96.3 kB

  • Original 320.2 kB
  • After minification 224.0 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. Obviously, The Scottish Sun needs image optimization as it can save up to 96.3 kB or 30% 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 1.1 MB

  • Original 1.5 MB
  • After minification 1.5 MB
  • After compression 426.3 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 1.1 MB or 71% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 344.6 kB

  • Original 409.3 kB
  • After minification 402.9 kB
  • After compression 64.6 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. Thescottishsun.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 344.6 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

10

After Optimization

10

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 10 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of The Scottish Sun. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Network Requests Diagram

thescottishsun.co.uk

thescottishsun.co.uk

289 ms

www.thescottishsun.co.uk

www.thescottishsun.co.uk

115 ms

358 ms

sun.appcache

sun.appcache

19 ms

main.css

main.css

65 ms

modernizr.js

modernizr.js

15 ms

widgets.opta.css

widgets.opta.css

336 ms

config.js

config.js

13 ms

sun.min.js

sun.min.js

99 ms

css

css

27 ms

brand_sun.png

brand_sun.png

38 ms

AvenirNextLTW02-BoldCn.eot

AvenirNextLTW02-BoldCn.eot

340 ms

AlternateGothic.eot

AlternateGothic.eot

44 ms

sunLogoNotSupported.png

sunLogoNotSupported.png

88 ms

search_Docked.png

search_Docked.png

31 ms

Accessibility Review

thescottishsun.co.uk accessibility score

72

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

[aria-*] attributes do not match their roles

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best practices

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

thescottishsun.co.uk best practices score

67

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

thescottishsun.co.uk SEO score

90

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

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 Thescottishsun.co.uk 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 Thescottishsun.co.uk 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

thescottishsun.co.uk

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