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Report Summary

  • 22

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    40% of other websites

  • 89

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 71% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 79

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    40% of websites

info.firstnews.co.uk

Award-winning weekly newspaper for children | First News | Try for FREE

Page Load Speed

1.7 sec in total

First Response

39 ms

Resources Loaded

1.4 sec

Page Rendered

187 ms

info.firstnews.co.uk screenshot

About Website

Click here to check amazing Info First News content for United Kingdom. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about info.firstnews.co.uk

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Key Findings

We analyzed Info.firstnews.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 39 ms and then it took 1.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 35% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

info.firstnews.co.uk performance score

22

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.0 s

24/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.3 s

10/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.0 s

14/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,410 ms

2/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.001

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value19.1 s

2/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

info.firstnews.co.uk

39 ms

wp-signup.php

377 ms

j.php

71 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

126 ms

wp-faq-schema-jquery-ui-v40342eba9fc9f14eb59d0b61af879344dafe58d4.css

149 ms

Our browser made a total of 58 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Info.firstnews.co.uk, 52% (30 requests) were made to Firstnews.co.uk and 16% (9 requests) were made to Use.typekit.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (545 ms) relates to the external source Firstnews.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 82.0 kB (22%)

Content Size

365.0 kB

After Optimization

283.0 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Info.firstnews.co.uk main page is 365.0 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. 55% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 204.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 74.4 kB

  • Original 98.9 kB
  • After minification 98.8 kB
  • After compression 24.6 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 74.4 kB or 75% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 4.9 kB
  • After minification 4.9 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. Info First News images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 7.5 kB

  • Original 204.3 kB
  • After minification 204.3 kB
  • After compression 196.8 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

-0%

Potential reduce by 146 B

  • Original 56.9 kB
  • After minification 56.9 kB
  • After compression 56.7 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. Info.firstnews.co.uk has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 43 (90%)

Requests Now

48

After Optimization

5

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 48 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Info First News. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 38 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

info.firstnews.co.uk

info.firstnews.co.uk

39 ms

wp-signup.php

wp-signup.php

377 ms

j.php

j.php

71 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

wp-emoji-release.min.js

126 ms

wp-faq-schema-jquery-ui-v40342eba9fc9f14eb59d0b61af879344dafe58d4.css

wp-faq-schema-jquery-ui-v40342eba9fc9f14eb59d0b61af879344dafe58d4.css

149 ms

site.css

site.css

186 ms

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147 ms

global.css

global.css

161 ms

jquery-ui.css

jquery-ui.css

65 ms

addthis_wordpress_public.min.css

addthis_wordpress_public.min.css

132 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

236 ms

jquery-migrate.min.js

jquery-migrate.min.js

248 ms

lity.min.js

lity.min.js

254 ms

col8ivi.js

col8ivi.js

101 ms

modernizr.js

modernizr.js

252 ms

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277 ms

v2.js

v2.js

84 ms

email-decode.min.js

email-decode.min.js

207 ms

cookiebanner.min.js

cookiebanner.min.js

233 ms

core.min.js

core.min.js

338 ms

accordion.min.js

accordion.min.js

347 ms

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wp-faq-schema-frontend-v11f2aa5640fa897770a9f558ce0c5b08d4dd8e79.js

338 ms

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firstnews_check_web_id-vd84d0c12708a7b87cfcf83449ca219560032465f.js

360 ms

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360 ms

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gtm4wp-form-move-tracker-v68d56057a5bcd95547625242c287872b3b4be7e6.js

374 ms

datepicker.min.js

datepicker.min.js

431 ms

libs.min.js

libs.min.js

440 ms

foundation.min.js

foundation.min.js

451 ms

site.min.js

site.min.js

459 ms

jquery.magnific-popup.min.js

jquery.magnific-popup.min.js

468 ms

leaddyno.min.js

leaddyno.min.js

485 ms

js.cookie.min.js

js.cookie.min.js

542 ms

respond.js

respond.js

246 ms

addthis_widget.js

addthis_widget.js

153 ms

wp-embed.min.js

wp-embed.min.js

545 ms

6779821.js

6779821.js

93 ms

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92 ms

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css2

50 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

95 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

126 ms

124894.ct.js

124894.ct.js

65 ms

firstnews-logo.svg

firstnews-logo.svg

409 ms

firstnews-logo-white.svg

firstnews-logo-white.svg

411 ms

fne-logo-white.png

fne-logo-white.png

410 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

4 ms

fb.js

fb.js

113 ms

web-interactives-embed.js

web-interactives-embed.js

184 ms

6779821.js

6779821.js

185 ms

banner.js

banner.js

122 ms

conversations-embed.js

conversations-embed.js

121 ms

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Accessibility Review

info.firstnews.co.uk accessibility score

89

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

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

Best Practices

info.firstnews.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

info.firstnews.co.uk SEO score

79

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

Links do not have descriptive text

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Page is blocked from indexing

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 Info.firstnews.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 Info.firstnews.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

info.firstnews.co.uk

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