Report Summary

  • 17

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    32% of other websites

  • 65

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 31% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    19% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    84% of websites

warringtonguardian.co.uk

Warrington News, Sport, Events - Warrington Guardian

Page Load Speed

8.4 sec in total

First Response

259 ms

Resources Loaded

6.6 sec

Page Rendered

1.6 sec

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Key Findings

We analyzed Warringtonguardian.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 259 ms and then it took 8.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 85% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

warringtonguardian.co.uk performance score

17

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.3 s

3/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.1 s

5/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value17.2 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value6,910 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.029

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value51.8 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

warringtonguardian.co.uk

259 ms

www.warringtonguardian.co.uk

667 ms

jquery.min.js

29 ms

prebid.js

227 ms

imgad

48 ms

Our browser made a total of 397 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 25% of them (98 requests) were addressed to the original Warringtonguardian.co.uk, 13% (52 requests) were made to Pixel.rubiconproject.com and 6% (25 requests) were made to Pixel.adsafeprotected.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1 sec) relates to the external source Rcp.c.appier.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 3.2 MB (50%)

Content Size

6.4 MB

After Optimization

3.2 MB

In fact, the total size of Warringtonguardian.co.uk main page is 6.4 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. Javascripts take 2.9 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 473.9 kB

  • Original 583.0 kB
  • After minification 527.3 kB
  • After compression 109.1 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 473.9 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-14%

Potential reduce by 330.5 kB

  • Original 2.3 MB
  • After minification 2.0 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, Warrington Guardian needs image optimization as it can save up to 330.5 kB or 14% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-66%

Potential reduce by 1.9 MB

  • Original 2.9 MB
  • After minification 2.7 MB
  • After compression 971.7 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 1.9 MB or 66% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 486.0 kB

  • Original 579.6 kB
  • After minification 537.1 kB
  • After compression 93.6 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. Warringtonguardian.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 486.0 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 224 (63%)

Requests Now

356

After Optimization

132

The browser has sent 356 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Warrington Guardian. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 88 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

warringtonguardian.co.uk accessibility score

65

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

Elements with an ARIA [role] that require children to contain a specific [role] are missing some or all of those required children.

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

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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.

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

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

warringtonguardian.co.uk best practices score

58

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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

warringtonguardian.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

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

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 Warringtonguardian.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 Warringtonguardian.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 description is not detected on the main page of Warrington Guardian. 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: