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Report Summary

  • 17

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    32% of other websites

  • 94

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 83% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    74% of websites

kentlive.news

Kent Live - Latest local news, sport & business from Kent

Page Load Speed

6.5 sec in total

First Response

141 ms

Resources Loaded

915 ms

Page Rendered

5.4 sec

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About Website

Click here to check amazing Kent Live content for United Kingdom. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about kentlive.news

Bringing you the latest news, sport and events updates from around Kent. Including opinion, live blogs, pictures and video from the Kent Live team.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Kentlive.news page load time and found that the first response time was 141 ms and then it took 6.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 80% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

kentlive.news performance score

17

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.9 s

55/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value12.6 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.6 s

37/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,670 ms

4/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.291

41/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value19.3 s

2/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

kentlive.news

141 ms

www.kentlive.news

44 ms

analytics-browser-2.8.1-min.js.gz

77 ms

choice.js

518 ms

section-base.css

92 ms

Our browser made a total of 46 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 9% of them (4 requests) were addressed to the original Kentlive.news, 50% (23 requests) were made to S2-prod.kentlive.news and 9% (4 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (556 ms) relates to the external source Stmg-prod.mirror.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 733.5 kB (43%)

Content Size

1.7 MB

After Optimization

965.6 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Kentlive.news main page is 1.7 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. Javascripts take 828.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-89%

Potential reduce by 711.8 kB

  • Original 799.3 kB
  • After minification 798.4 kB
  • After compression 87.5 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 711.8 kB or 89% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-15%

Potential reduce by 3.7 kB

  • Original 24.4 kB
  • After minification 20.7 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. Obviously, Kent Live needs image optimization as it can save up to 3.7 kB or 15% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 17.1 kB

  • Original 828.6 kB
  • After minification 828.6 kB
  • After compression 811.5 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

-2%

Potential reduce by 877 B

  • Original 46.8 kB
  • After minification 46.8 kB
  • After compression 46.0 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. Kentlive.news has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 30 (77%)

Requests Now

39

After Optimization

9

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 39 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Kent Live. 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 from 10 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

kentlive.news

kentlive.news

141 ms

www.kentlive.news

www.kentlive.news

44 ms

analytics-browser-2.8.1-min.js.gz

analytics-browser-2.8.1-min.js.gz

77 ms

choice.js

choice.js

518 ms

section-base.css

section-base.css

92 ms

chameleon-static-html.css

chameleon-static-html.css

97 ms

marwood-extended.css

marwood-extended.css

94 ms

brand-extended-clipper.cbbef9ce754236b3.css

brand-extended-clipper.cbbef9ce754236b3.css

97 ms

css2

css2

188 ms

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d70794e4f88b59d451d8f7187b4b4d658ca9d6aee73fe51d1845e088bf56d2be

207 ms

s.min.js

s.min.js

178 ms

runForceReconsent.min.js

runForceReconsent.min.js

182 ms

iasPET.1.js

iasPET.1.js

194 ms

tags.min.js

tags.min.js

194 ms

chartbeat_mab.js

chartbeat_mab.js

176 ms

section.min.js

section.min.js

186 ms

partner.min.js

partner.min.js

193 ms

chameleon-static-html.min.js

chameleon-static-html.min.js

186 ms

section.min.js

section.min.js

193 ms

withnail.min.js

withnail.min.js

199 ms

smile-web.min.js

smile-web.min.js

192 ms

style.css

style.css

202 ms

index.js

index.js

202 ms

auth-ui.min.js

auth-ui.min.js

206 ms

analytics.js.gz

analytics.js.gz

185 ms

ebx.js

ebx.js

201 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

283 ms

apstag.js

apstag.js

108 ms

analytics.config.json

analytics.config.json

556 ms

transparent.png

transparent.png

75 ms

section.css

section.css

46 ms

withnail.css

withnail.css

46 ms

section.css

section.css

50 ms

logo-kentlive.227ba5fc26d39c5e.png

logo-kentlive.227ba5fc26d39c5e.png

53 ms

logo-kentlive.png

logo-kentlive.png

53 ms

outside-black.svg

outside-black.svg

548 ms

transparent-wide.png

transparent-wide.png

548 ms

css2

css2

139 ms

ipso.a49db49dfe703ca7.svg

ipso.a49db49dfe703ca7.svg

56 ms

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79 ms

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247 ms

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icomoon.00495dd3fc67aad5.woff

41 ms

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249 ms

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E21x_cfngu7HiRpPX3ZpNE4kY5zKSPmJXkF0VDD2RAqnS73s.ttf

248 ms

cmp2-polyfilled.js

cmp2-polyfilled.js

131 ms

du_elections_ge_totalizer_latest.min.js

du_elections_ge_totalizer_latest.min.js

114 ms

Accessibility Review

kentlive.news accessibility score

94

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.

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

kentlive.news 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

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

kentlive.news SEO score

92

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Kentlive.news 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 Kentlive.news 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

kentlive.news

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