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Report Summary

  • 21

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    39% of other websites

  • 66

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 31% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 88

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    65% of websites

classic.newsnow.co.uk

NewsNow: The Independent News Discovery Platform

Page Load Speed

2.7 sec in total

First Response

154 ms

Resources Loaded

1.8 sec

Page Rendered

828 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Classic.newsnow.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 154 ms and then it took 2.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

classic.newsnow.co.uk performance score

21

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.9 s

4/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.9 s

14/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.8 s

15/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,850 ms

1/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.002

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value20.8 s

2/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

classic.newsnow.co.uk

154 ms

www.newsnow.co.uk

324 ms

202 ms

gtm.js

100 ms

38_0_d5a6f21aacb40651440406fdbd228ab9.js

146 ms

Our browser made a total of 20 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 5% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Classic.newsnow.co.uk, 60% (12 requests) were made to Newsnow.co.uk and 15% (3 requests) were made to Use.typekit.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (475 ms) relates to the external source Newsnow.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 273.0 kB (41%)

Content Size

666.1 kB

After Optimization

393.0 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Classic.newsnow.co.uk main page is 666.1 kB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 25% of websites need less resources to load. HTML takes 313.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 272.6 kB

  • Original 313.2 kB
  • After minification 304.5 kB
  • After compression 40.6 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. 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 272.6 kB or 87% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 154 B

  • Original 19.3 kB
  • After minification 19.1 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. Classic News Now images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 149 B

  • Original 308.4 kB
  • After minification 308.4 kB
  • After compression 308.3 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 162 B

  • Original 25.1 kB
  • After minification 25.1 kB
  • After compression 25.0 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. Classic.newsnow.co.uk has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 7 (47%)

Requests Now

15

After Optimization

8

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 15 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Classic News Now. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 8 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

classic.newsnow.co.uk accessibility score

66

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

[aria-*] attributes do not match their roles

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

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

Best Practices

classic.newsnow.co.uk 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

classic.newsnow.co.uk SEO score

88

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

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Classic.newsnow.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 Classic.newsnow.co.uk main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Classic News Now. 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: