Report Summary

  • 26

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    46% of other websites

  • 71

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 37% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 79

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    40% of websites

golfnews.co.uk

Golf News Magazine | Pro Tour News | Interviews & Golf Travel

Page Load Speed

5.7 sec in total

First Response

1.5 sec

Resources Loaded

3.9 sec

Page Rendered

334 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Golfnews.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 1.5 sec and then it took 4.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 65% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

golfnews.co.uk performance score

26

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.7 s

29/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.4 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.8 s

23/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,340 ms

17/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.093

91/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value11.6 s

18/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.golfnews.co.uk

1456 ms

fbds.js

138 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

237 ms

style-frontend.css

161 ms

font-awesome.min.css

236 ms

Our browser made a total of 81 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 65% of them (53 requests) were addressed to the original Golfnews.co.uk, 9% (7 requests) were made to Use.typekit.net and 4% (3 requests) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.5 sec) belongs to the original domain Golfnews.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 683.4 kB (22%)

Content Size

3.1 MB

After Optimization

2.4 MB

In fact, the total size of Golfnews.co.uk main page is 3.1 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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 2.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 46.4 kB

  • Original 56.7 kB
  • After minification 46.9 kB
  • After compression 10.3 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 9.8 kB, which is 17% of the original size. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 46.4 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 67.8 kB

  • Original 2.2 MB
  • After minification 2.2 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. Golf News images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-66%

Potential reduce by 378.4 kB

  • Original 569.1 kB
  • After minification 545.1 kB
  • After compression 190.8 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 378.4 kB or 66% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 190.8 kB

  • Original 231.1 kB
  • After minification 205.0 kB
  • After compression 40.2 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. Golfnews.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 190.8 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 44 (64%)

Requests Now

69

After Optimization

25

The browser has sent 69 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Golf 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 26 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 15 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

golfnews.co.uk accessibility score

71

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-hidden="true"] elements contain focusable descendents

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

Best Practices

golfnews.co.uk best practices score

92

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

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

golfnews.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

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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 Golfnews.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 Golfnews.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

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