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Report Summary

  • 10

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    23% of other websites

  • 67

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 32% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    20% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    83% of websites

chelmsfordweeklynews.co.uk

Chelmsford News, Chelmsford Sport, Leisure and local info from the Chelmsford Weekly News

Page Load Speed

6.2 sec in total

First Response

307 ms

Resources Loaded

5.2 sec

Page Rendered

666 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Chelmsfordweeklynews.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 307 ms and then it took 5.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 80% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

chelmsfordweeklynews.co.uk performance score

10

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.4 s

2/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value11.2 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value20.3 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value14,430 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.195

63/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value71.8 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

chelmsfordweeklynews.co.uk

307 ms

www.chelmsfordweeklynews.co.uk

526 ms

gpt.js

14 ms

amzn_ads.js

13 ms

css

38 ms

Our browser made a total of 309 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 43% of them (134 requests) were addressed to the original Chelmsfordweeklynews.co.uk, 6% (18 requests) were made to Pixel.rubiconproject.com and 6% (17 requests) were made to E.visualdna.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.2 sec) belongs to the original domain Chelmsfordweeklynews.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.6 MB (60%)

Content Size

2.7 MB

After Optimization

1.1 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Chelmsfordweeklynews.co.uk main page is 2.7 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 1.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-88%

Potential reduce by 249.8 kB

  • Original 285.0 kB
  • After minification 174.0 kB
  • After compression 35.2 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 111.0 kB, which is 39% 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 249.8 kB or 88% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-32%

Potential reduce by 309.7 kB

  • Original 960.6 kB
  • After minification 650.9 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. Obviously, Chelmsford Weekly News needs image optimization as it can save up to 309.7 kB or 32% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-71%

Potential reduce by 912.4 kB

  • Original 1.3 MB
  • After minification 1.1 MB
  • After compression 373.3 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 912.4 kB or 71% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 160.7 kB

  • Original 196.0 kB
  • After minification 159.0 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. Chelmsfordweeklynews.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 160.7 kB or 82% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 147 (51%)

Requests Now

287

After Optimization

140

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 287 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Chelmsford Weekly News. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 62 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 14 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

chelmsfordweeklynews.co.uk accessibility score

67

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

chelmsfordweeklynews.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

chelmsfordweeklynews.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 Chelmsfordweeklynews.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 Chelmsfordweeklynews.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 Chelmsford Weekly News. 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: