Report Summary

  • 16

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    30% of other websites

  • 85

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 58% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    83% of websites

thisisnorthscotland.co.uk

Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire & Highlands news | The Press & Journal

Page Load Speed

3.4 sec in total

First Response

979 ms

Resources Loaded

1.6 sec

Page Rendered

746 ms

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The P&J provides trusted news, politics and comment from Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire, Moray, Inverness, and the Highlands and Islands.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Thisisnorthscotland.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 979 ms and then it took 2.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 45% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

thisisnorthscotland.co.uk performance score

16

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.3 s

18/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value13.5 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.4 s

19/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,610 ms

12/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.233

53/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value15.4 s

7/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.pressandjournal.co.uk

979 ms

gtm.js

81 ms

tinypass.min.js

66 ms

cmp.stub.js

88 ms

OtAutoBlock.js

97 ms

Our browser made a total of 112 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Thisisnorthscotland.co.uk, 33% (37 requests) were made to Pressandjournal.co.uk and 3% (3 requests) were made to Cookie-cdn.cookiepro.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (979 ms) relates to the external source Pressandjournal.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 358.9 kB (18%)

Content Size

2.0 MB

After Optimization

1.7 MB

In fact, the total size of Thisisnorthscotland.co.uk main page is 2.0 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. 75% 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 807.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 354.1 kB

  • Original 445.0 kB
  • After minification 433.7 kB
  • After compression 90.9 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 354.1 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 807.1 kB
  • After minification 807.1 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. Thisisnorthscotland images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 1.2 kB

  • Original 755.2 kB
  • After minification 755.2 kB
  • After compression 753.9 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

-13%

Potential reduce by 3.5 kB

  • Original 26.2 kB
  • After minification 26.0 kB
  • After compression 22.7 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. Thisisnorthscotland.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 3.5 kB or 13% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 45 (41%)

Requests Now

111

After Optimization

66

The browser has sent 111 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Thisisnorthscotland. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 34 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 13 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

thisisnorthscotland.co.uk accessibility score

85

Accessibility Issues

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

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 IDs are not unique

Best Practices

thisisnorthscotland.co.uk best practices score

92

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

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

thisisnorthscotland.co.uk SEO score

93

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

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 Thisisnorthscotland.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 Thisisnorthscotland.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

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of Thisisnorthscotland. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: