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Report Summary

  • 33

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    53% of other websites

  • 62

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 28% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    19% of websites

  • 69

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    28% of websites

cottinghamtimes.co.uk

Cottingham-Times. The online face of the Cottingham Times Magazine for Cottingham & District - Welcome To The Cottingham Times

Page Load Speed

4.8 sec in total

First Response

1.6 sec

Resources Loaded

2.8 sec

Page Rendered

307 ms

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About Website

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Welcome to the Cottingham Times website, the on-line face of the Cottingham Times Magazine for Cottingham & District. We hope you like the look of our site, which over the coming months will contain l...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Cottinghamtimes.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 1.6 sec and then it took 3.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 55% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

cottinghamtimes.co.uk performance score

33

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.2 s

20/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.2 s

22/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.8 s

49/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,020 ms

26/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.196

63/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value9.6 s

29/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

cottinghamtimes.co.uk

1597 ms

rokmoomenu.css

317 ms

template_css.css

319 ms

style2.css

319 ms

rokzoom.css

322 ms

Our browser made a total of 74 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 61% of them (45 requests) were addressed to the original Cottinghamtimes.co.uk, 7% (5 requests) were made to Pagead2.googlesyndication.com and 5% (4 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.6 sec) belongs to the original domain Cottinghamtimes.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 148.1 kB (36%)

Content Size

415.7 kB

After Optimization

267.6 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Cottinghamtimes.co.uk main page is 415.7 kB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 40% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 172.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 40.3 kB

  • Original 51.7 kB
  • After minification 49.0 kB
  • After compression 11.4 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. 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 40.3 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 7.7 kB

  • Original 172.7 kB
  • After minification 164.9 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. Cottingham Times images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-47%

Potential reduce by 77.1 kB

  • Original 163.4 kB
  • After minification 159.4 kB
  • After compression 86.4 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 77.1 kB or 47% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 23.0 kB

  • Original 27.9 kB
  • After minification 22.9 kB
  • After compression 4.8 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. Cottinghamtimes.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 23.0 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 30 (44%)

Requests Now

68

After Optimization

38

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 68 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Cottingham 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 14 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

cottinghamtimes.co.uk

cottinghamtimes.co.uk

1597 ms

rokmoomenu.css

rokmoomenu.css

317 ms

template_css.css

template_css.css

319 ms

style2.css

style2.css

319 ms

rokzoom.css

rokzoom.css

322 ms

rokslidestrip.css

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322 ms

mootools.js

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401 ms

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391 ms

rokmoomenu.js

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391 ms

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392 ms

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81 ms

show_ads.js

show_ads.js

7 ms

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109 ms

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249 ms

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90 ms

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90 ms

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108 ms

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90 ms

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88 ms

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107 ms

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161 ms

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160 ms

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165 ms

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162 ms

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161 ms

dropdown-child.png

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160 ms

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236 ms

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239 ms

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237 ms

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241 ms

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239 ms

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240 ms

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308 ms

bullet-header-hilite2.png

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311 ms

bullets-mainmenu.png

bullets-mainmenu.png

312 ms

cottinghamfrontpage.jpg

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389 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

33 ms

footer-bg.png

footer-bg.png

289 ms

footer-edge.png

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287 ms

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354 ms

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148 ms

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114 ms

show_ads_impl.js

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65 ms

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339 ms

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340 ms

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347 ms

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350 ms

ga.js

ga.js

33 ms

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43 ms

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54 ms

ads

ads

304 ms

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osd.js

14 ms

60

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182 ms

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146 ms

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166 ms

studyhostcott.gif

studyhostcott.gif

103 ms

studyhostcott.gif

studyhostcott.gif

378 ms

css

css

60 ms

m_js_controller.js

m_js_controller.js

28 ms

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30 ms

favicon

favicon

61 ms

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22 ms

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52 ms

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3 ms

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4 ms

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63 ms

spacer.gif

spacer.gif

77 ms

zoom-shadow1.png

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77 ms

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77 ms

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79 ms

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78 ms

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79 ms

ui

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29 ms

Accessibility Review

cottinghamtimes.co.uk accessibility score

62

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

[aria-*] attributes do not match their roles

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

Best Practices

cottinghamtimes.co.uk best practices score

58

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

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

cottinghamtimes.co.uk SEO score

69

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

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 Cottinghamtimes.co.uk 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 Cottinghamtimes.co.uk 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

cottinghamtimes.co.uk

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Cottingham 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: