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herts24.co.uk

St Albans and Harpenden News, Sport & Things to do | Herts Advertiser

Page Load Speed

14.1 sec in total

First Response

271 ms

Resources Loaded

4.8 sec

Page Rendered

9 sec

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About Website

Visit herts24.co.uk now to see the best up-to-date Herts 24 content and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about herts24.co.uk

Latest news, sport, and things to do for St Albans, Harpenden, Radlett, London Colney and the surrounding Hertfordshire areas from the Herts Advertiser.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Herts24.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 271 ms and then it took 13.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 90% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

herts24.co.uk performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

herts24.co.uk

271 ms

www.hertsad.co.uk

190 ms

herts-advertiser-7305114-27.css

29 ms

config.js

236 ms

gpt.js

439 ms

Our browser made a total of 44 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Herts24.co.uk, 23% (10 requests) were made to Images.cm.archant.co.uk and 18% (8 requests) were made to Hertsad.co.uk. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (3.2 sec) relates to the external source Images.cm.archant.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 259.3 kB (30%)

Content Size

852.1 kB

After Optimization

592.8 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Herts24.co.uk main page is 852.1 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 485.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 177.5 kB

  • Original 204.7 kB
  • After minification 198.3 kB
  • After compression 27.2 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 177.5 kB or 87% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 14.2 kB
  • After minification 14.2 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. Herts 24 images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 3.8 kB

  • Original 485.2 kB
  • After minification 484.9 kB
  • After compression 481.4 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

-53%

Potential reduce by 78.1 kB

  • Original 148.1 kB
  • After minification 146.4 kB
  • After compression 70.0 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. Herts24.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 78.1 kB or 53% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 21 (53%)

Requests Now

40

After Optimization

19

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 40 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Herts 24. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 22 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

herts24.co.uk

herts24.co.uk

271 ms

www.hertsad.co.uk

www.hertsad.co.uk

190 ms

herts-advertiser-7305114-27.css

herts-advertiser-7305114-27.css

29 ms

config.js

config.js

236 ms

gpt.js

gpt.js

439 ms

cmp_shim.js

cmp_shim.js

303 ms

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11022_Archant_test.js

527 ms

tcf.stub.js

tcf.stub.js

392 ms

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204 ms

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337 ms

wrap.js

wrap.js

75 ms

apstag.js

apstag.js

580 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

587 ms

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pearcebateslivereporter.jpg

1092 ms

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498 ms

j24-lato.jpg

j24-lato.jpg

2739 ms

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3214 ms

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1091 ms

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1089 ms

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1089 ms

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owen.jpg

1633 ms

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1696 ms

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1693 ms

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1695 ms

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1693 ms

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494 ms

pubads_impl_2022092101.js

pubads_impl_2022092101.js

485 ms

ppub_config

ppub_config

483 ms

wrapperMessagingWithoutDetection.js

wrapperMessagingWithoutDetection.js

1159 ms

chartbeat.js

chartbeat.js

2125 ms

chartbeat_mab.js

chartbeat_mab.js

2125 ms

load

load

2458 ms

advertising.js

advertising.js

2471 ms

load.js

load.js

2469 ms

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2451 ms

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2459 ms

VisitorAPI-416826-1.js

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1075 ms

galleria.azur.min.js

galleria.azur.min.js

1911 ms

galleria.azur.css

galleria.azur.css

2103 ms

ping

ping

625 ms

AppMeasurement-7305074-1.js

AppMeasurement-7305074-1.js

242 ms

mab

mab

614 ms

tinypass.min.js

tinypass.min.js

372 ms

RCa770299d4ff243e28cb986afb2989805-source.min.js

RCa770299d4ff243e28cb986afb2989805-source.min.js

132 ms

SEO Factors

herts24.co.uk SEO score

0

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 Herts24.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 Herts24.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

herts24.co.uk

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Herts 24. 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: