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Report Summary

  • 46

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    64% of other websites

  • 86

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 61% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    74% of websites

cheshireindependent.co.uk

Cheshire News - By the Cheshire Independent Newspaper

Page Load Speed

6.8 sec in total

First Response

358 ms

Resources Loaded

5.8 sec

Page Rendered

715 ms

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About Website

Click here to check amazing Cheshire Independent content. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about cheshireindependent.co.uk

Welcome to the Cheshire Independent, the local newspaper for the Cheshire area & surrounding areas.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Cheshireindependent.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 358 ms and then it took 6.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 80% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

cheshireindependent.co.uk performance score

46

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.2 s

3/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value12.7 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value11.7 s

4/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value120 ms

97/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.009

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value13.1 s

12/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

cheshireindependent.co.uk

358 ms

www.cheshireindependent.co.uk

3707 ms

jquery.min.js

33 ms

bootstrap.min.css

54 ms

jquery-ui.js

42 ms

Our browser made a total of 60 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 82% of them (49 requests) were addressed to the original Cheshireindependent.co.uk, 3% (2 requests) were made to Stackpath.bootstrapcdn.com and 3% (2 requests) were made to Code.jquery.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (3.7 sec) belongs to the original domain Cheshireindependent.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 445.5 kB (4%)

Content Size

12.7 MB

After Optimization

12.2 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Cheshireindependent.co.uk main page is 12.7 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. 55% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 12.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 52.7 kB

  • Original 67.1 kB
  • After minification 59.7 kB
  • After compression 14.3 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 7.4 kB, which is 11% 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 52.7 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 228.5 kB

  • Original 12.4 MB
  • After minification 12.2 MB

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. Cheshire Independent images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-70%

Potential reduce by 132.3 kB

  • Original 189.9 kB
  • After minification 110.9 kB
  • After compression 57.6 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 132.3 kB or 70% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-66%

Potential reduce by 32.0 kB

  • Original 48.6 kB
  • After minification 44.9 kB
  • After compression 16.7 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. Cheshireindependent.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 32.0 kB or 66% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 17 (31%)

Requests Now

55

After Optimization

38

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 55 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Cheshire Independent. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 14 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

cheshireindependent.co.uk

cheshireindependent.co.uk

358 ms

www.cheshireindependent.co.uk

www.cheshireindependent.co.uk

3707 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

33 ms

bootstrap.min.css

bootstrap.min.css

54 ms

jquery-ui.js

jquery-ui.js

42 ms

jquery-ui.css

jquery-ui.css

24 ms

moment.min.js

moment.min.js

283 ms

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352 ms

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371 ms

Site.css

Site.css

168 ms

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248 ms

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335 ms

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36 ms

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Accessibility Review

cheshireindependent.co.uk accessibility score

86

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Best Practices

cheshireindependent.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

cheshireindependent.co.uk SEO score

92

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 Cheshireindependent.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 Cheshireindependent.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

cheshireindependent.co.uk

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Cheshire Independent. 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: