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westernpeople.com

Western People — The Western People Newspaper Online, providing weekly community news and sport for Mayo, Ireland.

Page Load Speed

5.5 sec in total

First Response

1.2 sec

Resources Loaded

3.7 sec

Page Rendered

648 ms

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About Website

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The Western People Newspaper Online, providing community news and sport from Co. Mayo’s leading newspaper

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Key Findings

We analyzed Westernpeople.com page load time and found that the first response time was 1.2 sec and then it took 4.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 65% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

westernpeople.com performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

westernpeople.com

1203 ms

css

38 ms

bootstrap.min.css

178 ms

responsivemobilemenu.css

171 ms

style.css

190 ms

Our browser made a total of 212 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 5% of them (10 requests) were addressed to the original Westernpeople.com, 16% (33 requests) were made to Westernpeople.ie and 11% (23 requests) were made to Static.xx.fbcdn.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.2 sec) relates to the external source Irishexaminer.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 600.6 kB (23%)

Content Size

2.6 MB

After Optimization

2.0 MB

In fact, the total size of Westernpeople.com main page is 2.6 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 1.8 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-73%

Potential reduce by 89.3 kB

  • Original 122.2 kB
  • After minification 119.2 kB
  • After compression 32.9 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 89.3 kB or 73% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 45.3 kB

  • Original 1.8 MB
  • After minification 1.7 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. Western People images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-65%

Potential reduce by 370.8 kB

  • Original 568.6 kB
  • After minification 556.5 kB
  • After compression 197.8 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 370.8 kB or 65% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 95.3 kB

  • Original 113.4 kB
  • After minification 99.4 kB
  • After compression 18.1 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. Westernpeople.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 95.3 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 110 (61%)

Requests Now

180

After Optimization

70

The browser has sent 180 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Western People. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 48 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 10 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

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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 Westernpeople.com 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 Westernpeople.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 Western People. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: