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Report Summary

  • 27

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    46% of other websites

  • 98

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 94% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 84

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    52% of websites

guardianunlimited.co.uk

Latest news, sport and opinion from the Guardian

Page Load Speed

3.3 sec in total

First Response

13 ms

Resources Loaded

2.2 sec

Page Rendered

1.1 sec

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About Website

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Latest US news, world news, sports, business, opinion, analysis and reviews from the Guardian, the world's leading liberal voice

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Key Findings

We analyzed Guardianunlimited.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 13 ms and then it took 3.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 60% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

guardianunlimited.co.uk performance score

27

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.5 s

34/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.9 s

51/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.9 s

64/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,990 ms

8/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.576

12/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value19.4 s

2/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

guardianunlimited.co.uk

13 ms

us

434 ms

polyfill.min.js

643 ms

graun.standalone.commercial.js

476 ms

frameworks.client.web.legacy.db602935c551e3e31ab2.js

476 ms

Our browser made a total of 231 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Guardianunlimited.co.uk, 82% (189 requests) were made to I.guim.co.uk and 11% (25 requests) were made to Assets.guim.co.uk. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.4 sec) relates to the external source I.guim.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.4 MB (30%)

Content Size

4.8 MB

After Optimization

3.4 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Guardianunlimited.co.uk main page is 4.8 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. Images take 3.5 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-89%

Potential reduce by 1.0 MB

  • Original 1.1 MB
  • After minification 1.1 MB
  • After compression 131.0 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 1.0 MB or 89% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-12%

Potential reduce by 403.1 kB

  • Original 3.5 MB
  • After minification 3.1 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. Obviously, Guardian Unlimited needs image optimization as it can save up to 403.1 kB or 12% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 9.2 kB

  • Original 140.0 kB
  • After minification 140.0 kB
  • After compression 130.8 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

-31%

Potential reduce by 28 B

  • Original 90 B
  • After minification 62 B
  • After compression 62 B

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. Guardianunlimited.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 28 B or 31% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 6 (3%)

Requests Now

208

After Optimization

202

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 208 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Guardian Unlimited. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 7 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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Accessibility Review

guardianunlimited.co.uk accessibility score

98

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.

Best Practices

guardianunlimited.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

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

guardianunlimited.co.uk SEO score

84

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

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 Guardianunlimited.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 Guardianunlimited.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

guardianunlimited.co.uk

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Guardian Unlimited. 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: