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Report Summary

  • 18

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    34% of other websites

  • 86

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 61% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 83

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    46% of websites

native.fairfaxmedia.com.au

Australian Breaking News Headlines & World News Online | SMH.com.au

Page Load Speed

4.9 sec in total

First Response

131 ms

Resources Loaded

3.4 sec

Page Rendered

1.5 sec

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Native.fairfaxmedia.com.au page load time and found that the first response time was 131 ms and then it took 4.8 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

native.fairfaxmedia.com.au performance score

18

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.9 s

25/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value10.1 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value48.1 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value104,990 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value136.1 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

native.fairfaxmedia.com.au

131 ms

www.smh.com.au

82 ms

metro_mastheads.js

78 ms

gpt.js

265 ms

sp.js

187 ms

Our browser made a total of 184 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Native.fairfaxmedia.com.au, 63% (116 requests) were made to Static.ffx.io and 16% (30 requests) were made to Smh.com.au. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.7 sec) relates to the external source Static.ffx.io.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.1 MB (24%)

Content Size

4.5 MB

After Optimization

3.4 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript

In fact, the total size of Native.fairfaxmedia.com.au main page is 4.5 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. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Images take 3.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 920.3 kB

  • Original 1.1 MB
  • After minification 1.1 MB
  • After compression 154.9 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 920.3 kB or 86% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 6.5 kB

  • Original 3.1 MB
  • After minification 3.1 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. Native Fairfaxmedia images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-51%

Potential reduce by 167.0 kB

  • Original 325.7 kB
  • After minification 325.7 kB
  • After compression 158.7 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 167.0 kB or 51% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 33 (19%)

Requests Now

170

After Optimization

137

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript

The browser has sent 170 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Native Fairfaxmedia. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 24 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

native.fairfaxmedia.com.au accessibility score

86

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.

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

<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

native.fairfaxmedia.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

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

native.fairfaxmedia.com.au SEO score

83

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 Native.fairfaxmedia.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 Native.fairfaxmedia.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 Native Fairfaxmedia. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: