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Report Summary

  • 14

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    26% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    83% of websites

thisisplymouth.co.uk

Plymouth Live - Latest local news, sport & business from Plymouth

Page Load Speed

20.3 sec in total

First Response

198 ms

Resources Loaded

4.7 sec

Page Rendered

15.4 sec

About Website

Welcome to thisisplymouth.co.uk homepage info - get ready to check Thisis Plymouth best content for United Kingdom right away, or after learning these important things about thisisplymouth.co.uk

Latest news, sport and events from around Plymouth. Including opinion, live blogs, pictures and video from the Plymouth Live team, formerly Plymouth Herald.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Thisisplymouth.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 198 ms and then it took 20.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 95% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

thisisplymouth.co.uk performance score

14

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.0 s

49/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value13.9 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.3 s

19/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,610 ms

4/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.305

39/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value18.9 s

3/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

thisisplymouth.co.uk

198 ms

www.plymouthherald.co.uk

7 ms

www.plymouthherald.co.uk

73 ms

section-base.css

262 ms

chameleon-static-html-clipper.css

268 ms

Our browser made a total of 73 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Thisisplymouth.co.uk, 32% (23 requests) were made to S2-prod.plymouthherald.co.uk and 8% (6 requests) were made to S3.mirror.co.uk. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.5 sec) relates to the external source Static.criteo.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 417.2 kB (50%)

Content Size

833.3 kB

After Optimization

416.1 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Thisisplymouth.co.uk main page is 833.3 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. 80% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. HTML takes 460.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 391.5 kB

  • Original 460.5 kB
  • After minification 459.8 kB
  • After compression 69.0 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 391.5 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 2.2 kB

  • Original 55.7 kB
  • After minification 53.6 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. Thisis Plymouth images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 22.3 kB

  • Original 268.8 kB
  • After minification 268.8 kB
  • After compression 246.6 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

-3%

Potential reduce by 1.3 kB

  • Original 48.3 kB
  • After minification 48.2 kB
  • After compression 47.0 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. Thisisplymouth.co.uk has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 46 (72%)

Requests Now

64

After Optimization

18

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 64 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Thisis Plymouth. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 34 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 14 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

thisisplymouth.co.uk accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

thisisplymouth.co.uk best practices score

75

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

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

SEO Factors

thisisplymouth.co.uk SEO score

93

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

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

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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 Thisisplymouth.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 Thisisplymouth.co.uk 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 Thisis Plymouth. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: