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Report Summary

  • 9

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    23% of other websites

  • 94

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 83% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    74% of websites

centralsomersetgazette.co.uk

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

Page Load Speed

3.6 sec in total

First Response

211 ms

Resources Loaded

938 ms

Page Rendered

2.5 sec

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About Website

Visit centralsomersetgazette.co.uk now to see the best up-to-date Central Somerset Gazette content for United Kingdom and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about centralsomersetgazette.co.uk

Bringing you the latest news, sport and events updates from around Somerset. Including opinion, live blogs, pictures and video from the Somerset Live team.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Centralsomersetgazette.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 211 ms and then it took 3.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 60% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

centralsomersetgazette.co.uk performance score

9

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.0 s

24/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value14.3 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value14.8 s

1/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value4,580 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.29

41/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value33.8 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

centralsomersetgazette.co.uk

211 ms

www.somersetlive.co.uk

8 ms

www.somersetlive.co.uk

41 ms

choice.js

491 ms

section-base.css

80 ms

Our browser made a total of 47 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Centralsomersetgazette.co.uk, 49% (23 requests) were made to S2-prod.somersetlive.co.uk and 9% (4 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (498 ms) relates to the external source Stmg-prod.mirror.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 879.9 kB (42%)

Content Size

2.1 MB

After Optimization

1.2 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Centralsomersetgazette.co.uk main page is 2.1 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. HTML takes 1.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 858.1 kB

  • Original 1.0 MB
  • After minification 1.0 MB
  • After compression 149.0 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 858.1 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-10%

Potential reduce by 3.5 kB

  • Original 35.7 kB
  • After minification 32.2 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. Central Somerset Gazette images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 17.3 kB

  • Original 992.8 kB
  • After minification 992.8 kB
  • After compression 975.5 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

-2%

Potential reduce by 1.0 kB

  • Original 47.0 kB
  • After minification 47.0 kB
  • After compression 46.0 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. Centralsomersetgazette.co.uk has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 30 (77%)

Requests Now

39

After Optimization

9

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 39 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Central Somerset Gazette. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 22 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 10 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

centralsomersetgazette.co.uk

centralsomersetgazette.co.uk

211 ms

www.somersetlive.co.uk

www.somersetlive.co.uk

8 ms

www.somersetlive.co.uk

www.somersetlive.co.uk

41 ms

choice.js

choice.js

491 ms

section-base.css

section-base.css

80 ms

chameleon-static-html.css

chameleon-static-html.css

79 ms

marwood-extended.css

marwood-extended.css

87 ms

brand-extended-clipper.cb7a7dad3a675d45.css

brand-extended-clipper.cb7a7dad3a675d45.css

85 ms

css2

css2

166 ms

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f4da43f653def4d92323af178197181349cb8842e02c1bc9f77497adaaecf7f0

192 ms

s.min.js

s.min.js

179 ms

runForceReconsent.min.js

runForceReconsent.min.js

179 ms

iasPET.1.js

iasPET.1.js

170 ms

prebid-test.js

prebid-test.js

197 ms

tags.min.js

tags.min.js

189 ms

chartbeat_mab.js

chartbeat_mab.js

164 ms

section.min.js

section.min.js

183 ms

partner.min.js

partner.min.js

201 ms

chameleon-static-html.min.js

chameleon-static-html.min.js

190 ms

section.min.js

section.min.js

190 ms

withnail.min.js

withnail.min.js

197 ms

smile-web.min.js

smile-web.min.js

182 ms

style.css

style.css

192 ms

index.js

index.js

196 ms

auth-ui.min.js

auth-ui.min.js

208 ms

analytics.js.gz

analytics.js.gz

180 ms

ebx.js

ebx.js

191 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

249 ms

apstag.js

apstag.js

115 ms

analytics.config.json

analytics.config.json

498 ms

0_Somerset-Live.png

0_Somerset-Live.png

106 ms

transparent.png

transparent.png

75 ms

section.css

section.css

55 ms

withnail.css

withnail.css

54 ms

section.css

section.css

56 ms

transparent-wide.png

transparent-wide.png

60 ms

logo-somersetlive.png

logo-somersetlive.png

60 ms

outside-black.svg

outside-black.svg

171 ms

css2

css2

93 ms

ipso.a49db49dfe703ca7.svg

ipso.a49db49dfe703ca7.svg

44 ms

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135 ms

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236 ms

icomoon.00495dd3fc67aad5.woff

icomoon.00495dd3fc67aad5.woff

43 ms

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E21x_cfngu7HiRpPX3ZpNE4kY5zKSPmJXkF0VDD2RApATL3s.ttf

272 ms

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E21x_cfngu7HiRpPX3ZpNE4kY5zKSPmJXkF0VDD2RAqnS73s.ttf

271 ms

cmp2-polyfilled.js

cmp2-polyfilled.js

125 ms

du_council_totalizer_24.min.js

du_council_totalizer_24.min.js

135 ms

Accessibility Review

centralsomersetgazette.co.uk accessibility score

94

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.

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

centralsomersetgazette.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

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

centralsomersetgazette.co.uk SEO score

92

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

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 Centralsomersetgazette.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 Centralsomersetgazette.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

centralsomersetgazette.co.uk

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of Central Somerset Gazette. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: