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Report Summary

  • 15

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    27% of other websites

  • 70

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 35% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 85

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    55% of websites

ardrossanherald.com

Ardrossan and Saltcoats News, Sport, Events - Ardrossan Herald

Page Load Speed

3 sec in total

First Response

164 ms

Resources Loaded

2.3 sec

Page Rendered

535 ms

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About Website

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News, sport, weather, travel, events and more across Ardrossan and Saltcoats - brought to you by the team at the Ardrossan and Saltcoats Herald.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Ardrossanherald.com page load time and found that the first response time was 164 ms and then it took 2.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 55% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

ardrossanherald.com performance score

15

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.5 s

6/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.2 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value13.8 s

1/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value5,260 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.089

92/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value40.9 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

ardrossanherald.com

164 ms

www.ardrossanherald.com

459 ms

css

53 ms

css2

69 ms

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221 ms

Our browser made a total of 107 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 66% of them (71 requests) were addressed to the original Ardrossanherald.com, 5% (5 requests) were made to Api.iconify.design and 4% (4 requests) were made to Tags.crwdcntrl.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (788 ms) belongs to the original domain Ardrossanherald.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 261.3 kB (20%)

Content Size

1.3 MB

After Optimization

1.0 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Ardrossanherald.com main page is 1.3 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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 602.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 210.1 kB

  • Original 254.7 kB
  • After minification 220.9 kB
  • After compression 44.6 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 33.8 kB, which is 13% 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 210.1 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 12.3 kB

  • Original 408.2 kB
  • After minification 395.9 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. Ardrossan Herald images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 38.7 kB

  • Original 602.2 kB
  • After minification 602.0 kB
  • After compression 563.4 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 155 B

  • Original 40.0 kB
  • After minification 40.0 kB
  • After compression 39.8 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. Ardrossanherald.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 35 (34%)

Requests Now

104

After Optimization

69

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 104 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Ardrossan 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 31 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

ardrossanherald.com

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164 ms

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459 ms

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Accessibility Review

ardrossanherald.com accessibility score

70

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

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

ardrossanherald.com best practices score

67

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

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

ardrossanherald.com SEO score

85

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

Links do not have descriptive text

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

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

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

ardrossanherald.com

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