Report Summary

  • 26

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    46% of other websites

  • 81

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 52% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 90

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    68% of websites

wilerzeitung.ch

St. Galler Tagblatt | Nachrichten für die Ostschweiz

Page Load Speed

5.6 sec in total

First Response

784 ms

Resources Loaded

3.7 sec

Page Rendered

1.1 sec

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Key Findings

We analyzed Wilerzeitung.ch page load time and found that the first response time was 784 ms and then it took 4.8 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

wilerzeitung.ch performance score

26

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.9 s

24/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.2 s

23/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value11.7 s

4/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,000 ms

8/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value19.3 s

2/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.wilerzeitung.ch

784 ms

35_base.css

615 ms

46_fussball-liveticker.css

433 ms

34_tbm_V144.css

523 ms

32_fcms.css

522 ms

Our browser made a total of 180 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 3% of them (6 requests) were addressed to the original Wilerzeitung.ch, 33% (59 requests) were made to Static1.tagblatt.ch and 31% (56 requests) were made to Static2.tagblatt.ch. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (859 ms) relates to the external source Static2.tagblatt.ch.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 874.0 kB (39%)

Content Size

2.2 MB

After Optimization

1.4 MB

In fact, the total size of Wilerzeitung.ch main page is 2.2 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 1.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 149.1 kB

  • Original 177.0 kB
  • After minification 148.2 kB
  • After compression 27.9 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 28.8 kB, which is 16% of the original size. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 149.1 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 22.0 kB

  • Original 1.1 MB
  • After minification 1.0 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. Wilerzeitung images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-67%

Potential reduce by 511.6 kB

  • Original 766.0 kB
  • After minification 728.0 kB
  • After compression 254.4 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 511.6 kB or 67% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 191.4 kB

  • Original 227.2 kB
  • After minification 196.4 kB
  • After compression 35.8 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. Wilerzeitung.ch needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 191.4 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 54 (30%)

Requests Now

178

After Optimization

124

The browser has sent 178 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Wilerzeitung. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 37 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 14 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

wilerzeitung.ch accessibility score

81

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-hidden="true"] elements contain focusable descendents

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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

wilerzeitung.ch 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

wilerzeitung.ch 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

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

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    DE

  • Language Claimed

    DE

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Wilerzeitung.ch can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that German is used on the page, and it matches the claimed language. Our system also found out that Wilerzeitung.ch main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Wilerzeitung. 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: