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Report Summary

  • 12

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    25% of other websites

  • 70

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 35% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 91

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    70% of websites

whtimes.co.uk

Welwyn Garden City and Hatfield News, Sport & Things to do | Welwyn Hatfield Times

Page Load Speed

4.1 sec in total

First Response

176 ms

Resources Loaded

2.9 sec

Page Rendered

1 sec

About Website

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

Latest news, sport, and things to do for Welwyn Garden City and Hatfield, Welwyn, Potters Bar and the surrounding Hertfordshire areas from the Welwyn Hatfield Times.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Whtimes.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 176 ms and then it took 4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 65% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

whtimes.co.uk performance score

12

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.3 s

7/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.6 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value12.2 s

3/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value5,290 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.163

72/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value37.1 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

whtimes.co.uk

176 ms

www.whtimes.co.uk

712 ms

css

47 ms

css2

93 ms

archant-bright-red-sans-serif-vars.css

220 ms

Our browser made a total of 125 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 65% of them (81 requests) were addressed to the original Whtimes.co.uk, 4% (5 requests) were made to Api.iconify.design and 2% (3 requests) were made to Assets.adobedtm.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (940 ms) belongs to the original domain Whtimes.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 229.0 kB (18%)

Content Size

1.3 MB

After Optimization

1.1 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Whtimes.co.uk main page is 1.3 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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 554.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 211.4 kB

  • Original 255.2 kB
  • After minification 217.4 kB
  • After compression 43.8 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 37.9 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 211.4 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 14.2 kB

  • Original 436.3 kB
  • After minification 422.1 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. Wh Times images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 3.2 kB

  • Original 554.0 kB
  • After minification 553.8 kB
  • After compression 550.8 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

-0%

Potential reduce by 155 B

  • Original 40.0 kB
  • After minification 40.0 kB
  • After compression 39.8 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. Whtimes.co.uk has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 41 (34%)

Requests Now

120

After Optimization

79

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 120 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Wh Times. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 30 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

whtimes.co.uk accessibility score

70

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

Elements with an ARIA [role] that require children to contain a specific [role] are missing some or all of those required children.

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Best practices

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

whtimes.co.uk best practices score

75

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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

whtimes.co.uk SEO score

91

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

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Whtimes.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 Whtimes.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 description is not detected on the main page of Wh Times. 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: