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Report Summary

  • 17

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    32% 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

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    83% of websites

edinburghlive.co.uk

Edinburgh Live: Edinburgh News, Sport & What's On

Page Load Speed

6.1 sec in total

First Response

140 ms

Resources Loaded

1.1 sec

Page Rendered

4.8 sec

edinburghlive.co.uk screenshot

About Website

Click here to check amazing Edinburgh Live content for United Kingdom. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about edinburghlive.co.uk

Edinburgh Live for news, sport, hibs fc, hearts fc, what's on, lifestyle, video and pictures for Edinburgh

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Key Findings

We analyzed Edinburghlive.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 140 ms and then it took 6 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

edinburghlive.co.uk performance score

17

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.9 s

55/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value12.8 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.1 s

31/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,980 ms

8/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.296

40/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value18.7 s

3/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

edinburghlive.co.uk

140 ms

www.edinburghlive.co.uk

139 ms

analytics-browser-2.8.1-min.js.gz

76 ms

choice.js

555 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 9% of them (4 requests) were addressed to the original Edinburghlive.co.uk, 51% (24 requests) were made to S2-prod.edinburghlive.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 (555 ms) relates to the external source Cmp.inmobi.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 761.1 kB (44%)

Content Size

1.7 MB

After Optimization

966.4 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Edinburghlive.co.uk main page is 1.7 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. 75% 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. HTML takes 828.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-89%

Potential reduce by 738.9 kB

  • Original 828.7 kB
  • After minification 827.8 kB
  • After compression 89.8 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 738.9 kB or 89% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-13%

Potential reduce by 3.8 kB

  • Original 29.3 kB
  • After minification 25.5 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, Edinburgh Live needs image optimization as it can save up to 3.8 kB or 13% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 17.5 kB

  • Original 822.5 kB
  • After minification 822.5 kB
  • After compression 805.1 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 916 B

  • Original 46.9 kB
  • After minification 46.9 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. Edinburghlive.co.uk has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 31 (78%)

Requests Now

40

After Optimization

9

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 40 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Edinburgh Live. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 23 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 10 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

edinburghlive.co.uk

edinburghlive.co.uk

140 ms

www.edinburghlive.co.uk

www.edinburghlive.co.uk

139 ms

analytics-browser-2.8.1-min.js.gz

analytics-browser-2.8.1-min.js.gz

76 ms

choice.js

choice.js

555 ms

section-base.css

section-base.css

80 ms

chameleon-static-html.css

chameleon-static-html.css

72 ms

marwood-extended.css

marwood-extended.css

85 ms

brand-extended-clipper.f55fd7955b087422.css

brand-extended-clipper.f55fd7955b087422.css

81 ms

css2

css2

83 ms

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e47c23d4557f9b86e7d8e2bc699e4b46c7733f830c77043cbd7b411224ed0437

169 ms

s.min.js

s.min.js

73 ms

runForceReconsent.min.js

runForceReconsent.min.js

158 ms

iasPET.1.js

iasPET.1.js

164 ms

tags.min.js

tags.min.js

164 ms

chartbeat_mab.js

chartbeat_mab.js

156 ms

pug-runtime.min.js

pug-runtime.min.js

158 ms

section.min.js

section.min.js

162 ms

section.min.js

section.min.js

158 ms

partner.min.js

partner.min.js

161 ms

chameleon-static-html.min.js

chameleon-static-html.min.js

164 ms

withnail.min.js

withnail.min.js

174 ms

smile-web.min.js

smile-web.min.js

164 ms

style.css

style.css

172 ms

index.js

index.js

171 ms

auth-ui.min.js

auth-ui.min.js

175 ms

analytics.js.gz

analytics.js.gz

170 ms

ebx.js

ebx.js

160 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

244 ms

apstag.js

apstag.js

89 ms

analytics.config.json

analytics.config.json

440 ms

transparent.png

transparent.png

69 ms

section.css

section.css

33 ms

withnail.css

withnail.css

31 ms

section.css

section.css

38 ms

transparent-wide.png

transparent-wide.png

37 ms

logo-edinburghlive.f7040f5c13e8e81c.png

logo-edinburghlive.f7040f5c13e8e81c.png

37 ms

logo-edinburghlive.png

logo-edinburghlive.png

36 ms

outside-black.svg

outside-black.svg

34 ms

css2

css2

117 ms

ipso.a49db49dfe703ca7.svg

ipso.a49db49dfe703ca7.svg

114 ms

du_elections_ge_totalizer_latest.min.js

du_elections_ge_totalizer_latest.min.js

137 ms

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137 ms

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174 ms

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icomoon.00495dd3fc67aad5.woff

40 ms

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469 ms

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E21x_cfngu7HiRpPX3ZpNE4kY5zKSPmJXkF0VDD2RAqnS73st9hiuXK_.ttf

238 ms

cmp2-polyfilled.js

cmp2-polyfilled.js

19 ms

Accessibility Review

edinburghlive.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

edinburghlive.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

edinburghlive.co.uk SEO score

93

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

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 Edinburghlive.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 Edinburghlive.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

edinburghlive.co.uk

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