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Report Summary

  • 10

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    23% of other websites

  • 67

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 32% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    20% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    83% of websites

bordertelegraph.com

Galashiels and Scottish Borders News, Sport, Events - Border Telegraph

Page Load Speed

18 sec in total

First Response

1.2 sec

Resources Loaded

15.4 sec

Page Rendered

1.4 sec

bordertelegraph.com screenshot

About Website

Visit bordertelegraph.com now to see the best up-to-date Border Telegraph content for United Kingdom and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about bordertelegraph.com

Border Telegraph - first for news, sport, entertainment for the Scottish Borders, including Galashiels, Hawick, Peebles, Selkirk, Kelso, Jedburgh.

Visit bordertelegraph.com

Key Findings

We analyzed Bordertelegraph.com page load time and found that the first response time was 1.2 sec and then it took 16.8 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

bordertelegraph.com performance score

10

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.8 s

5/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value10.6 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value20.3 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value13,610 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.183

66/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value72.9 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

bordertelegraph.com

1158 ms

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851 ms

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31 ms

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Our browser made a total of 343 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 27% of them (92 requests) were addressed to the original Bordertelegraph.com, 11% (39 requests) were made to Pixel.rubiconproject.com and 5% (17 requests) were made to E.visualdna.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (6.5 sec) relates to the external source Sugar-middle-martini.heraldandtimeslabs.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.5 MB (52%)

Content Size

2.9 MB

After Optimization

1.4 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Bordertelegraph.com main page is 2.9 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. 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. Javascripts take 1.5 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 188.1 kB

  • Original 220.5 kB
  • After minification 143.8 kB
  • After compression 32.4 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 76.7 kB, which is 35% 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 188.1 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-21%

Potential reduce by 205.2 kB

  • Original 976.5 kB
  • After minification 771.3 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. Obviously, Border Telegraph needs image optimization as it can save up to 205.2 kB or 21% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-64%

Potential reduce by 989.2 kB

  • Original 1.5 MB
  • After minification 1.3 MB
  • After compression 559.9 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 989.2 kB or 64% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 160.6 kB

  • Original 195.9 kB
  • After minification 158.9 kB
  • After compression 35.2 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. Bordertelegraph.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 160.6 kB or 82% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 186 (60%)

Requests Now

308

After Optimization

122

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 308 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Border Telegraph. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 73 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 14 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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Accessibility Review

bordertelegraph.com accessibility score

67

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

bordertelegraph.com best practices score

58

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

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

bordertelegraph.com SEO score

93

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

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 Bordertelegraph.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 Bordertelegraph.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

bordertelegraph.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Border Telegraph. 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: