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Report Summary

  • 20

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    37% of other websites

  • 97

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 92% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 99

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    93% of websites

cqtoday.com.au

Central Queensland Today - CQ Today - Local news and information in Central, QLD.

Page Load Speed

13 sec in total

First Response

475 ms

Resources Loaded

12 sec

Page Rendered

522 ms

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About Website

Welcome to cqtoday.com.au homepage info - get ready to check CQ Today best content right away, or after learning these important things about cqtoday.com.au

Local news and information in print and online for Central Queensland based at our offices in Rockhampton, QLD and serving the community including Gladstone QLD. %

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Key Findings

We analyzed Cqtoday.com.au page load time and found that the first response time was 475 ms and then it took 12.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 90% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

cqtoday.com.au performance score

20

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.5 s

6/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value13.7 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value13.9 s

1/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,490 ms

14/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.055

98/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value19.9 s

2/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

cqtoday.com.au

475 ms

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1819 ms

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675 ms

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667 ms

Our browser made a total of 99 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 65% of them (64 requests) were addressed to the original Cqtoday.com.au, 20% (20 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 5% (5 requests) were made to Tpc.googlesyndication.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (5.7 sec) belongs to the original domain Cqtoday.com.au.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 320.4 kB (12%)

Content Size

2.6 MB

After Optimization

2.3 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Cqtoday.com.au main page is 2.6 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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.8 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 239.9 kB

  • Original 279.1 kB
  • After minification 256.0 kB
  • After compression 39.3 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. 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 239.9 kB or 86% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 49.9 kB

  • Original 1.8 MB
  • After minification 1.7 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. CQ Today images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 3.9 kB

  • Original 365.9 kB
  • After minification 365.8 kB
  • After compression 361.9 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-17%

Potential reduce by 26.8 kB

  • Original 162.1 kB
  • After minification 161.5 kB
  • After compression 135.3 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. Cqtoday.com.au needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 26.8 kB or 17% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 40 (53%)

Requests Now

76

After Optimization

36

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 76 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of CQ Today. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 27 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 15 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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Accessibility Review

cqtoday.com.au accessibility score

97

Accessibility Issues

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

cqtoday.com.au best practices score

83

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

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

cqtoday.com.au SEO score

99

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

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Cqtoday.com.au 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 Cqtoday.com.au 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

cqtoday.com.au

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of CQ Today. 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: