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Report Summary

  • 12

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    25% of other websites

  • 92

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 78% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    74% of websites

forums.gazettelive.co.uk

Teesside Live: Number one for news, opinion, sport & celebrity gossip

Page Load Speed

4.8 sec in total

First Response

143 ms

Resources Loaded

2 sec

Page Rendered

2.6 sec

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Forums.gazettelive.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 143 ms and then it took 4.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 70% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

forums.gazettelive.co.uk performance score

12

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.6 s

32/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value16.1 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value25.7 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value11,960 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.202

61/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value50.9 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

forums.gazettelive.co.uk

143 ms

www.gazettelive.co.uk

722 ms

section-base.css

50 ms

chameleon-static-html.css

57 ms

marwood-extended.css

56 ms

Our browser made a total of 71 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Forums.gazettelive.co.uk, 42% (30 requests) were made to S2-prod.gazettelive.co.uk and 8% (6 requests) were made to S3.mirror.co.uk. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (722 ms) relates to the external source Gazettelive.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 814.2 kB (38%)

Content Size

2.1 MB

After Optimization

1.3 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Forums.gazettelive.co.uk main page is 2.1 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. 80% 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. Javascripts take 1.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 787.7 kB

  • Original 931.6 kB
  • After minification 930.6 kB
  • After compression 143.9 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 787.7 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-10%

Potential reduce by 7.0 kB

  • Original 67.8 kB
  • After minification 60.9 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. Forums Gazette Live images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 18.3 kB

  • Original 1.1 MB
  • After minification 1.1 MB
  • After compression 1.1 MB

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

-3%

Potential reduce by 1.3 kB

  • Original 49.2 kB
  • After minification 49.1 kB
  • After compression 47.9 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. Forums.gazettelive.co.uk has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 44 (69%)

Requests Now

64

After Optimization

20

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 64 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Forums Gazette 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 33 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 13 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

forums.gazettelive.co.uk

forums.gazettelive.co.uk

143 ms

www.gazettelive.co.uk

www.gazettelive.co.uk

722 ms

section-base.css

section-base.css

50 ms

chameleon-static-html.css

chameleon-static-html.css

57 ms

marwood-extended.css

marwood-extended.css

56 ms

brand-extended-clipper.bce21c46f8ec0659.css

brand-extended-clipper.bce21c46f8ec0659.css

60 ms

css2

css2

93 ms

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fa0ecb3d5e848f119f66e9858e9b223adbac14d1e52502b6e505ae457e371457

91 ms

s.min.js

s.min.js

83 ms

runForceReconsent.min.js

runForceReconsent.min.js

55 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

67 ms

choice.js

choice.js

40 ms

apstag.js

apstag.js

34 ms

iasPET.1.js

iasPET.1.js

31 ms

prebid-test.js

prebid-test.js

28 ms

tags.min.js

tags.min.js

21 ms

apstag.js

apstag.js

432 ms

cmp2-polyfilled.js

cmp2-polyfilled.js

46 ms

chartbeat_mab.js

chartbeat_mab.js

418 ms

door.js

door.js

438 ms

verify-2.0.1.min.js

verify-2.0.1.min.js

330 ms

analytics.config.json

analytics.config.json

663 ms

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logo-gazettelive.1f8f11cb47d1863e.png

188 ms

pug-runtime.min.js

pug-runtime.min.js

110 ms

section.min.js

section.min.js

141 ms

section.min.js

section.min.js

110 ms

partner.min.js

partner.min.js

110 ms

chameleon-static-html.min.js

chameleon-static-html.min.js

109 ms

withnail.min.js

withnail.min.js

159 ms

smile-web.min.js

smile-web.min.js

201 ms

style.css

style.css

142 ms

index.js

index.js

142 ms

auth-ui.min.js

auth-ui.min.js

163 ms

analytics.js.gz

analytics.js.gz

164 ms

ebx.js

ebx.js

202 ms

transparent.png

transparent.png

139 ms

transparent-wide.png

transparent-wide.png

140 ms

logo-gazettelive.png

logo-gazettelive.png

159 ms

outside-black.svg

outside-black.svg

157 ms

section.css

section.css

61 ms

withnail.css

withnail.css

60 ms

section.css

section.css

72 ms

font

font

95 ms

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69 ms

font

font

96 ms

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ipso.a49db49dfe703ca7.svg

39 ms

trust-project.8b902581bcc08204.svg

trust-project.8b902581bcc08204.svg

63 ms

css2

css2

75 ms

du_council_totalizer_24.min.js

du_council_totalizer_24.min.js

47 ms

tag

tag

290 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

167 ms

widgetHomepage.js

widgetHomepage.js

186 ms

adsm.macro.7b4cd01e-58e4-4d3c-b14d-9c15d2911c60.js

adsm.macro.7b4cd01e-58e4-4d3c-b14d-9c15d2911c60.js

249 ms

X2JS.min.js

X2JS.min.js

62 ms

ads.js

ads.js

77 ms

chartbeat.js

chartbeat.js

61 ms

rps-style.css

rps-style.css

97 ms

fish4data

fish4data

75 ms

collect

collect

77 ms

fish4-logo.d54fcfdb0229be61.png

fish4-logo.d54fcfdb0229be61.png

123 ms

collect

collect

176 ms

iya.css

iya.css

76 ms

iya-gazettelive.css

iya-gazettelive.css

78 ms

icomoon-rps.f0a6f103d1f560f7.woff

icomoon-rps.f0a6f103d1f560f7.woff

91 ms

mab

mab

108 ms

ping

ping

97 ms

subscriptions.js

subscriptions.js

55 ms

iya-test-bkg.jpg

iya-test-bkg.jpg

29 ms

default.gif

default.gif

28 ms

logo-InYourArea.svg

logo-InYourArea.svg

69 ms

ga-audiences

ga-audiences

113 ms

Accessibility Review

forums.gazettelive.co.uk accessibility score

92

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

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

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

forums.gazettelive.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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

forums.gazettelive.co.uk SEO score

92

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

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 Forums.gazettelive.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 Forums.gazettelive.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

forums.gazettelive.co.uk

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