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Report Summary

  • 22

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    40% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 99

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    93% of websites

windsorstar.com

Home | Windsor Star

Page Load Speed

126.7 sec in total

First Response

529 ms

Resources Loaded

75.4 sec

Page Rendered

50.8 sec

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Key Findings

We analyzed Windsorstar.com page load time and found that the first response time was 529 ms and then it took 126.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 95% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

windsorstar.com performance score

22

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.3 s

19/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.6 s

17/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value10.8 s

6/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value4,000 ms

1/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.02

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value27.1 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

windsorstar.com

529 ms

950 ms

951 ms

style.css

950 ms

184635-3683795904303.js

2184 ms

Our browser made a total of 155 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 5% of them (8 requests) were addressed to the original Windsorstar.com, 21% (33 requests) were made to Wpmedia.windsorstar.com and 11% (17 requests) were made to S1.wp.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (8.3 sec) belongs to the original domain Windsorstar.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 3.5 MB (45%)

Content Size

7.8 MB

After Optimization

4.3 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Windsorstar.com main page is 7.8 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 4.5 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 211.4 kB

  • Original 276.2 kB
  • After minification 254.7 kB
  • After compression 64.8 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 211.4 kB or 77% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 21.4 kB

  • Original 2.6 MB
  • After minification 2.6 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. Windsor Star images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-65%

Potential reduce by 3.0 MB

  • Original 4.5 MB
  • After minification 4.1 MB
  • After compression 1.6 MB

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 3.0 MB or 65% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 335.0 kB

  • Original 408.1 kB
  • After minification 390.4 kB
  • After compression 73.1 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. Windsorstar.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 335.0 kB or 82% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 59 (43%)

Requests Now

138

After Optimization

79

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 138 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Windsor Star. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 42 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 12 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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Accessibility Review

windsorstar.com accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

windsorstar.com best practices score

83

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

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

windsorstar.com SEO score

99

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Windsorstar.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 Windsorstar.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

windsorstar.com

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