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Report Summary

  • 48

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    66% of other websites

  • 64

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 29% of websites

  • 50

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    19% of websites

  • 77

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    36% of websites

thedownrecorder.co.uk

The Down Recorder | Local Newspaper | News in Co Down Northern Ireland

Page Load Speed

2.7 sec in total

First Response

566 ms

Resources Loaded

1.9 sec

Page Rendered

282 ms

About Website

Welcome to thedownrecorder.co.uk homepage info - get ready to check The Down Recorder best content for United Kingdom right away, or after learning these important things about thedownrecorder.co.uk

The Down Recorder is your local newspaper and number one source of up to date local news in the Co Down area of Northern Ireland

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Key Findings

We analyzed Thedownrecorder.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 566 ms and then it took 2.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 45% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

thedownrecorder.co.uk performance score

48

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.2 s

77/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.2 s

11/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.8 s

23/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value470 ms

61/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value11.4 s

19/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

thedownrecorder.co.uk

566 ms

js

72 ms

gtm.js

113 ms

all.css

180 ms

home.css

185 ms

Our browser made a total of 62 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 61% of them (38 requests) were addressed to the original Thedownrecorder.co.uk, 29% (18 requests) were made to Platform.twitter.com and 3% (2 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (843 ms) belongs to the original domain Thedownrecorder.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 132.2 kB (13%)

Content Size

1.1 MB

After Optimization

921.1 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Thedownrecorder.co.uk 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. 45% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 873.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 28.2 kB

  • Original 35.4 kB
  • After minification 26.5 kB
  • After compression 7.2 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 8.9 kB, which is 25% 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 28.2 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 10.9 kB

  • Original 873.3 kB
  • After minification 862.4 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. The Down Recorder images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-56%

Potential reduce by 58.8 kB

  • Original 104.8 kB
  • After minification 104.8 kB
  • After compression 46.0 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 58.8 kB or 56% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 34.3 kB

  • Original 39.7 kB
  • After minification 30.0 kB
  • After compression 5.4 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. Thedownrecorder.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 34.3 kB or 86% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 24 (40%)

Requests Now

60

After Optimization

36

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 60 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of The Down Recorder. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 22 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

thedownrecorder.co.uk accessibility score

64

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.

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

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

thedownrecorder.co.uk best practices score

50

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

SEO Factors

thedownrecorder.co.uk SEO score

77

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Thedownrecorder.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 Thedownrecorder.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 The Down Recorder. 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: