Report Summary

  • 15

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    27% 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

thisisthewestcountry.co.uk

Somerset News, Sport, Events - Somerset County Gazette

Page Load Speed

5.4 sec in total

First Response

290 ms

Resources Loaded

4.4 sec

Page Rendered

754 ms

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Somerset County Gazette - first for news, sport, events, M5 traffic & travel in Taunton, Bridgwater, Chard, Yeovil, Glastonbury, Ilminster.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Thisisthewestcountry.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 290 ms and then it took 5.1 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

thisisthewestcountry.co.uk performance score

15

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.0 s

4/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value11.1 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value20.8 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value16,020 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.043

99/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value54.0 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

thisisthewestcountry.co.uk

290 ms

www.thisisthewestcountry.co.uk

618 ms

gpt.js

11 ms

amzn_ads.js

8 ms

css

35 ms

Our browser made a total of 264 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 42% of them (110 requests) were addressed to the original Thisisthewestcountry.co.uk, 8% (20 requests) were made to S0.2mdn.net and 6% (17 requests) were made to E.visualdna.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1 sec) belongs to the original domain Thisisthewestcountry.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.6 MB (57%)

Content Size

2.8 MB

After Optimization

1.2 MB

In fact, the total size of Thisisthewestcountry.co.uk main page is 2.8 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. 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 1.5 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 182.5 kB

  • Original 211.5 kB
  • After minification 132.6 kB
  • After compression 29.0 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 79.0 kB, which is 37% 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 182.5 kB or 86% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-25%

Potential reduce by 232.8 kB

  • Original 921.0 kB
  • After minification 688.2 kB

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, Thisisthewestcountry needs image optimization as it can save up to 232.8 kB or 25% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-69%

Potential reduce by 1.1 MB

  • Original 1.5 MB
  • After minification 1.3 MB
  • After compression 468.3 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 1.1 MB or 69% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 160.5 kB

  • Original 195.8 kB
  • After minification 158.8 kB
  • After compression 35.2 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. Thisisthewestcountry.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 160.5 kB or 82% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 128 (52%)

Requests Now

248

After Optimization

120

The browser has sent 248 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Thisisthewestcountry. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 68 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 14 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

thisisthewestcountry.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

<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

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

thisisthewestcountry.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

thisisthewestcountry.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 Thisisthewestcountry.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 Thisisthewestcountry.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 Thisisthewestcountry. 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: