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Report Summary

  • 31

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    51% of other websites

  • 98

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 94% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    94% of websites

theheraldgroup.com

The Herald Group

Page Load Speed

1.1 sec in total

First Response

98 ms

Resources Loaded

903 ms

Page Rendered

124 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Theheraldgroup.com page load time and found that the first response time was 98 ms and then it took 1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 20% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

theheraldgroup.com performance score

31

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.1 s

47/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.2 s

45/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value13.7 s

2/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value5,280 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value23.7 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.theheraldgroup.com

98 ms

css2

73 ms

legacy.js

61 ms

modern.js

76 ms

extract-css-runtime-ebd71e0fc173e5bafc84-min.en-US.js

68 ms

Our browser made a total of 30 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 3% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Theheraldgroup.com, 50% (15 requests) were made to Images.squarespace-cdn.com and 30% (9 requests) were made to Assets.squarespace.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (574 ms) relates to the external source Images.squarespace-cdn.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.5 MB (40%)

Content Size

3.7 MB

After Optimization

2.2 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Theheraldgroup.com main page is 3.7 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. 30% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 2.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-88%

Potential reduce by 181.3 kB

  • Original 205.8 kB
  • After minification 175.8 kB
  • After compression 24.5 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 30.0 kB, which is 15% 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 181.3 kB or 88% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-17%

Potential reduce by 250.9 kB

  • Original 1.4 MB
  • After minification 1.2 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. Obviously, The Herald Group needs image optimization as it can save up to 250.9 kB or 17% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-52%

Potential reduce by 1.0 MB

  • Original 2.0 MB
  • After minification 2.0 MB
  • After compression 975.2 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 1.0 MB or 52% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-16%

Potential reduce by 3.1 kB

  • Original 19.2 kB
  • After minification 19.2 kB
  • After compression 16.1 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. Theheraldgroup.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 3.1 kB or 16% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 10 (34%)

Requests Now

29

After Optimization

19

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 29 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of The Herald Group. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 11 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

theheraldgroup.com accessibility score

98

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.

Best Practices

theheraldgroup.com 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

theheraldgroup.com SEO score

100

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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

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 Theheraldgroup.com 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 Theheraldgroup.com 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 The Herald Group. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: