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Report Summary

  • 18

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    34% of other websites

  • 83

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 54% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 84

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    52% of websites

dieselnews.com.au

Power Torque, Australia’s premier truck and trailer news magazine.

Page Load Speed

11.5 sec in total

First Response

398 ms

Resources Loaded

10.7 sec

Page Rendered

462 ms

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Dieselnews.com.au page load time and found that the first response time was 398 ms and then it took 11.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 90% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

dieselnews.com.au performance score

18

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.2 s

8/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value18.5 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value11.6 s

4/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,440 ms

5/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value20.7 s

2/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

dieselnews.com.au

398 ms

dieselnews.com.au

806 ms

powertorque.com.au

1217 ms

css

29 ms

style.min.css

404 ms

Our browser made a total of 80 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 3% of them (2 requests) were addressed to the original Dieselnews.com.au, 63% (50 requests) were made to Powertorque.com.au and 11% (9 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (7.6 sec) relates to the external source Powertorque.com.au.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 325.1 kB (29%)

Content Size

1.1 MB

After Optimization

814.0 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Dieselnews.com.au main page is 1.1 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. 75% 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 690.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 204.0 kB

  • Original 242.1 kB
  • After minification 231.0 kB
  • After compression 38.1 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 204.0 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 9.1 kB
  • After minification 9.1 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. Diesel News images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-13%

Potential reduce by 87.3 kB

  • Original 690.3 kB
  • After minification 690.3 kB
  • After compression 603.0 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 87.3 kB or 13% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-17%

Potential reduce by 33.7 kB

  • Original 197.6 kB
  • After minification 197.6 kB
  • After compression 163.8 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. Dieselnews.com.au needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 33.7 kB or 17% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 60 (94%)

Requests Now

64

After Optimization

4

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 64 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Diesel 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 35 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 27 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

dieselnews.com.au accessibility score

83

Accessibility Issues

Contrast

These are opportunities to improve the legibility of your content.

Impact

Issue

High

Background and foreground colors do not have a sufficient contrast ratio.

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

ARIA IDs are not unique

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

dieselnews.com.au 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

dieselnews.com.au SEO score

84

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

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Dieselnews.com.au 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 Dieselnews.com.au 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 data is detected on the main page of Diesel News. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: