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herald-sun.com

Durham Breaking News, Sports & Crime | The Herald Sun

Page Load Speed

2.5 sec in total

First Response

33 ms

Resources Loaded

1.9 sec

Page Rendered

570 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Herald-sun.com page load time and found that the first response time was 33 ms and then it took 2.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

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Network Requests Diagram

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Our browser made a total of 194 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Herald-sun.com, 11% (22 requests) were made to Pbs.twimg.com and 7% (14 requests) were made to Ib.adnxs.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (526 ms) relates to the external source Securepubads.g.doubleclick.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 930.8 kB (31%)

Content Size

3.0 MB

After Optimization

2.0 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Herald-sun.com main page is 3.0 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. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.5 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 216.2 kB

  • Original 266.3 kB
  • After minification 264.4 kB
  • After compression 50.1 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 216.2 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 14.4 kB

  • Original 1.5 MB
  • After minification 1.5 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. Herald Sun images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-53%

Potential reduce by 531.9 kB

  • Original 998.2 kB
  • After minification 974.2 kB
  • After compression 466.3 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 531.9 kB or 53% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 168.4 kB

  • Original 214.5 kB
  • After minification 190.6 kB
  • After compression 46.1 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. Herald-sun.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 168.4 kB or 79% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 87 (50%)

Requests Now

174

After Optimization

87

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 174 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Herald Sun. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 60 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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SEO Factors

herald-sun.com SEO score

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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 Herald-sun.com 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 Herald-sun.com 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

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Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Herald Sun. 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: