Report Summary

  • 18

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    34% of other websites

  • 90

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 75% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 83

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    46% of websites

eastbourneherald.co.uk

Eastbourne | SussexWorld

Page Load Speed

9 sec in total

First Response

392 ms

Resources Loaded

8.5 sec

Page Rendered

88 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Eastbourneherald.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 392 ms and then it took 8.6 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

eastbourneherald.co.uk performance score

18

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.2 s

42/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.6 s

18/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value20.2 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value7,660 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.208

60/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value43.1 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.eastbourneherald.co.uk

392 ms

jp-main-02-min.css

11 ms

trending-stories.css

34 ms

top-stories.css

29 ms

scribble-eventwidget--desktop.css

38 ms

Our browser made a total of 110 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 53% of them (58 requests) were addressed to the original Eastbourneherald.co.uk, 8% (9 requests) were made to Nexus.ensighten.com and 7% (8 requests) were made to Google.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (7.8 sec) relates to the external source Data.de.coremetrics.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.6 MB (49%)

Content Size

3.3 MB

After Optimization

1.7 MB

In fact, the total size of Eastbourneherald.co.uk 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 1.7 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-9%

Potential reduce by 10 B

  • Original 108 B
  • After minification 108 B
  • After compression 98 B

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. This web page is already compressed.

Image Optimization

-10%

Potential reduce by 122.6 kB

  • Original 1.2 MB
  • After minification 1.1 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. Eastbourne Herald images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-70%

Potential reduce by 1.2 MB

  • Original 1.7 MB
  • After minification 1.6 MB
  • After compression 499.6 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 1.2 MB or 70% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 356.0 kB

  • Original 424.6 kB
  • After minification 421.1 kB
  • After compression 68.6 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. Eastbourneherald.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 356.0 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 52 (50%)

Requests Now

104

After Optimization

52

The browser has sent 104 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Eastbourne Herald. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 46 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 8 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

eastbourneherald.co.uk accessibility score

90

Accessibility Issues

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

eastbourneherald.co.uk 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

eastbourneherald.co.uk SEO score

83

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

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

    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 Eastbourneherald.co.uk 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 Eastbourneherald.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 Eastbourne Herald. 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: