Report Summary

  • 14

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    26% of other websites

  • 95

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 87% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    84% of websites

tributes.theage.com.au

The Age Death Notices - Melbourne, Victoria | The Age

Page Load Speed

4.7 sec in total

First Response

136 ms

Resources Loaded

4.3 sec

Page Rendered

219 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Tributes.theage.com.au page load time and found that the first response time was 136 ms and then it took 4.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 70% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

tributes.theage.com.au performance score

14

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value7.3 s

1/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value12.7 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value12.5 s

3/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,630 ms

12/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.178

68/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value18.1 s

3/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

136 ms

asr.css

22 ms

glyphicons.css

45 ms

jquery.min.js

8 ms

jquery.loading.js

100 ms

Our browser made a total of 334 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (6 requests) were addressed to the original Tributes.theage.com.au, 15% (51 requests) were made to Pixel.rubiconproject.com and 9% (30 requests) were made to Speed.pointroll.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1 sec) relates to the external source Theuppercut.appserver.tv.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 2.4 MB (74%)

Content Size

3.3 MB

After Optimization

869.7 kB

In fact, the total size of Tributes.theage.com.au main page is 3.3 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. Javascripts take 2.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 122.1 kB

  • Original 147.9 kB
  • After minification 137.8 kB
  • After compression 25.9 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 122.1 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-25%

Potential reduce by 29.9 kB

  • Original 118.3 kB
  • After minification 88.4 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, Tributes The Age needs image optimization as it can save up to 29.9 kB or 25% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-73%

Potential reduce by 1.7 MB

  • Original 2.3 MB
  • After minification 2.3 MB
  • After compression 639.3 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 1.7 MB or 73% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 579.7 kB

  • Original 695.8 kB
  • After minification 646.1 kB
  • After compression 116.1 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. Tributes.theage.com.au needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 579.7 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 225 (75%)

Requests Now

300

After Optimization

75

The browser has sent 300 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Tributes The Age. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 84 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

tributes.theage.com.au accessibility score

95

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.

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

List items (<li>) are not contained within <ul> or <ol> parent elements.

Best Practices

tributes.theage.com.au best practices score

75

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

High

Includes front-end JavaScript libraries with known security vulnerabilities

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

tributes.theage.com.au SEO score

93

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Tributes.theage.com.au can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Tributes.theage.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 Tributes The Age. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: