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Report Summary

  • 25

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    44% of other websites

  • 79

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 47% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 77

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    36% of websites

inverness-courier.co.uk

Inverness Courier - the latest News and Sport for Inverness

Page Load Speed

6 sec in total

First Response

469 ms

Resources Loaded

4.1 sec

Page Rendered

1.5 sec

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Key Findings

We analyzed Inverness-courier.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 469 ms and then it took 5.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 75% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

inverness-courier.co.uk performance score

25

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.7 s

30/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value15.0 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.6 s

11/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,280 ms

18/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.065

97/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value15.3 s

7/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

inverness-courier.co.uk

469 ms

www.inverness-courier.co.uk

653 ms

bundle-v7554980.css

9 ms

bundle-v7516279.js

19 ms

gpt.js

124 ms

Our browser made a total of 31 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 65% of them (20 requests) were addressed to the original Inverness-courier.co.uk, 13% (4 requests) were made to Use.fontawesome.com and 6% (2 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.8 sec) belongs to the original domain Inverness-courier.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 89.5 kB (3%)

Content Size

3.3 MB

After Optimization

3.2 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Inverness-courier.co.uk main page is 3.3 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 3.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 79.1 kB

  • Original 97.8 kB
  • After minification 97.0 kB
  • After compression 18.7 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 79.1 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 10.4 kB

  • Original 3.0 MB
  • After minification 2.9 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. Inverness Courier images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 32 B

  • Original 199.1 kB
  • After minification 199.1 kB
  • After compression 199.1 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

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 8.0 kB
  • After minification 8.0 kB
  • After compression 8.0 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. Inverness-courier.co.uk has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 6 (23%)

Requests Now

26

After Optimization

20

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 26 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Inverness Courier. 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

inverness-courier.co.uk

inverness-courier.co.uk

469 ms

www.inverness-courier.co.uk

www.inverness-courier.co.uk

653 ms

bundle-v7554980.css

bundle-v7554980.css

9 ms

bundle-v7516279.js

bundle-v7516279.js

19 ms

gpt.js

gpt.js

124 ms

11022.js

11022.js

83 ms

wp-banners.js

wp-banners.js

98 ms

all.css

all.css

34 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

75 ms

get_image.aspx

get_image.aspx

156 ms

get_image.aspx

get_image.aspx

155 ms

invernesshighlandlogo.jpg

invernesshighlandlogo.jpg

18 ms

tiktok.svg

tiktok.svg

17 ms

x-twitter.png

x-twitter.png

34 ms

invernesshighlandlogo23.jpg

invernesshighlandlogo23.jpg

24 ms

hnm-white-logo.png

hnm-white-logo.png

24 ms

tiktokfooter.png

tiktokfooter.png

24 ms

twitterx.png

twitterx.png

23 ms

ipso_regulated_footer.jpg

ipso_regulated_footer.jpg

27 ms

1x1.gif

1x1.gif

28 ms

datalayer

datalayer

62 ms

arcomedyclub.jpg

arcomedyclub.jpg

54 ms

skipnish3.jpg

skipnish3.jpg

55 ms

premiumgridback.jpg

premiumgridback.jpg

2827 ms

inverness-bg.jpg

inverness-bg.jpg

698 ms

nationalback.jpg

nationalback.jpg

277 ms

pubads_impl.js

pubads_impl.js

64 ms

js

js

69 ms

fa-solid-900.woff

fa-solid-900.woff

84 ms

fa-regular-400.woff

fa-regular-400.woff

39 ms

fa-brands-400.woff

fa-brands-400.woff

47 ms

Accessibility Review

inverness-courier.co.uk accessibility score

79

Accessibility Issues

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Lists do not contain only <li> elements and script supporting elements (<script> and <template>).

Best practices

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

inverness-courier.co.uk best practices score

75

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

High

Includes front-end JavaScript libraries with known security vulnerabilities

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

inverness-courier.co.uk SEO score

77

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

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 Inverness-courier.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 Inverness-courier.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

inverness-courier.co.uk

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Inverness Courier. 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: