Report Summary

  • 31

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    51% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 97

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    91% of websites

barrheadleader.com

Local News - Athabasca, Barrhead and Westlock - TownAndCountryToday.com

Page Load Speed

4.6 sec in total

First Response

211 ms

Resources Loaded

3.5 sec

Page Rendered

850 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Barrheadleader.com page load time and found that the first response time was 211 ms and then it took 4.4 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

barrheadleader.com performance score

31

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.8 s

55/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.6 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.2 s

60/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,470 ms

14/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.119

84/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value9.7 s

29/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.barrheadleader.com

211 ms

jquery.smartbanner.css

22 ms

font-awesome.min.css

18 ms

css

30 ms

css

43 ms

Our browser made a total of 220 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 25% of them (55 requests) were addressed to the original Barrheadleader.com, 7% (16 requests) were made to Static.xx.fbcdn.net and 4% (9 requests) were made to Scontent.xx.fbcdn.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.1 sec) relates to the external source Ssum-sec.casalemedia.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 3.0 MB (73%)

Content Size

4.1 MB

After Optimization

1.1 MB

In fact, the total size of Barrheadleader.com main page is 4.1 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. 85% 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. Javascripts take 2.5 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 943.4 kB

  • Original 1.1 MB
  • After minification 1.1 MB
  • After compression 140.9 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 943.4 kB or 87% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 14.0 kB

  • Original 335.7 kB
  • After minification 321.7 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. Barrhead Leader images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 1.9 MB

  • Original 2.5 MB
  • After minification 2.3 MB
  • After compression 606.8 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 1.9 MB or 76% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 160.1 kB

  • Original 211.9 kB
  • After minification 211.5 kB
  • After compression 51.8 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. Barrheadleader.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 160.1 kB or 76% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 117 (68%)

Requests Now

173

After Optimization

56

The browser has sent 173 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Barrhead Leader. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 61 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 13 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

barrheadleader.com accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

barrheadleader.com 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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

barrheadleader.com SEO score

97

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

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

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 Barrheadleader.com 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 Barrheadleader.com 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 data is detected on the main page of Barrhead Leader. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: