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Report Summary

  • 28

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    47% of other websites

  • 66

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 31% of websites

  • 42

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    19% of websites

  • 54

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    19% of websites

news-today.co.uk

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Page Load Speed

4.8 sec in total

First Response

350 ms

Resources Loaded

3 sec

Page Rendered

1.5 sec

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Key Findings

We analyzed News-today.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 350 ms and then it took 4.5 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

news-today.co.uk performance score

28

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.5 s

36/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.5 s

36/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value13.4 s

2/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value6,910 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.011

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value16.9 s

5/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

news-today.co.uk

350 ms

news-today.co.uk

1841 ms

tag.min.js

346 ms

tag.min.js

43 ms

advertisement.js

261 ms

Our browser made a total of 31 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 35% of them (11 requests) were addressed to the original News-today.co.uk, 19% (6 requests) were made to Apis.google.com and 6% (2 requests) were made to Connect.facebook.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.8 sec) belongs to the original domain News-today.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 160.4 kB (29%)

Content Size

555.7 kB

After Optimization

395.3 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of News-today.co.uk main page is 555.7 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. 40% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 292.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 148.6 kB

  • Original 197.1 kB
  • After minification 196.2 kB
  • After compression 48.6 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 148.6 kB or 75% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-14%

Potential reduce by 8.8 kB

  • Original 61.5 kB
  • After minification 52.7 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, News Today needs image optimization as it can save up to 8.8 kB or 14% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 2.5 kB

  • Original 292.1 kB
  • After minification 292.1 kB
  • After compression 289.6 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

-12%

Potential reduce by 613 B

  • Original 5.0 kB
  • After minification 5.0 kB
  • After compression 4.3 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. News-today.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 613 B or 12% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 16 (59%)

Requests Now

27

After Optimization

11

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 27 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of News Today. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 17 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

news-today.co.uk accessibility score

66

Accessibility Issues

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Lists do not contain only <li> elements and script supporting elements (<script> and <template>).

Best Practices

news-today.co.uk best practices score

42

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

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

news-today.co.uk SEO score

54

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

robots.txt is not valid

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

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise News-today.co.uk can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that News-today.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 News Today. 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: