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Report Summary

  • 17

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    32% of other websites

  • 72

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 37% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    20% of websites

  • 75

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    32% of websites

kentmessenger.co.uk

Maidstone News & Sport, latest news from the Kent Messenger

Page Load Speed

4.4 sec in total

First Response

326 ms

Resources Loaded

3.6 sec

Page Rendered

501 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Kentmessenger.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 326 ms and then it took 4.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 65% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

kentmessenger.co.uk performance score

17

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value7.0 s

1/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value28.9 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value16.0 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,180 ms

6/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.052

99/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value25.7 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

kentmessenger.co.uk

326 ms

maidstone

324 ms

maidstone

390 ms

387 ms

bundle-v7727667.css

569 ms

Our browser made a total of 65 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Kentmessenger.co.uk, 40% (26 requests) were made to Kentonline.co.uk and 17% (11 requests) were made to Edition.pagesuite-professional.co.uk. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.2 sec) relates to the external source Kentonline.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 273.7 kB (7%)

Content Size

3.9 MB

After Optimization

3.6 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Kentmessenger.co.uk main page is 3.9 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 3.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 74.2 kB

  • Original 93.1 kB
  • After minification 92.9 kB
  • After compression 18.9 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 74.2 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 112.2 kB

  • Original 3.2 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. Kent Messenger images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-15%

Potential reduce by 87.3 kB

  • Original 595.4 kB
  • After minification 595.4 kB
  • After compression 508.2 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 87.3 kB or 15% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 63 B

  • Original 7.0 kB
  • After minification 7.0 kB
  • After compression 6.9 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. Kentmessenger.co.uk has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 18 (33%)

Requests Now

54

After Optimization

36

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 54 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Kent Messenger. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 13 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

kentmessenger.co.uk

kentmessenger.co.uk

326 ms

maidstone

maidstone

324 ms

maidstone

maidstone

390 ms

387 ms

bundle-v7727667.css

bundle-v7727667.css

569 ms

bundle-v7749667.js

bundle-v7749667.js

721 ms

css

css

63 ms

css

css

80 ms

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586 ms

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331 ms

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423 ms

amp-access-0.1.js

amp-access-0.1.js

55 ms

Exitbee-v7727664.js

Exitbee-v7727664.js

330 ms

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3b3f10b0b8.js

60 ms

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524 ms

widgets.js

widgets.js

55 ms

js

js

95 ms

gpt.js

gpt.js

79 ms

11022.js

11022.js

62 ms

wp-banners.js

wp-banners.js

332 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

113 ms

get_image.aspx

get_image.aspx

136 ms

get_image.aspx

get_image.aspx

349 ms

p.gif

p.gif

563 ms

get_image.aspx

get_image.aspx

137 ms

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137 ms

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get_image.aspx

346 ms

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345 ms

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346 ms

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346 ms

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346 ms

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345 ms

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get_image.aspx

441 ms

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get_image.aspx

442 ms

sitesearch_6.png

sitesearch_6.png

428 ms

kolv5logo_12.svg

kolv5logo_12.svg

428 ms

mobilev5Search.jpg

mobilev5Search.jpg

427 ms

KMv5.jpg

KMv5.jpg

427 ms

newsletter-promo-banner-web_the-briefing_desktop.jpg

newsletter-promo-banner-web_the-briefing_desktop.jpg

697 ms

pnportal.jpg

pnportal.jpg

471 ms

twitterxfollow_1.png

twitterxfollow_1.png

692 ms

tiktokicon.png

tiktokicon.png

670 ms

POLITICS-NEWS-BANNER-2024-KENT_BIG-BEN.jpg

POLITICS-NEWS-BANNER-2024-KENT_BIG-BEN.jpg

976 ms

beer-solid.png

beer-solid.png

671 ms

EatwordsIcon.png

EatwordsIcon.png

709 ms

newsletter-promo-banner-web_gills_desktop.jpg

newsletter-promo-banner-web_gills_desktop.jpg

1223 ms

decadesheader_1.jpg

decadesheader_1.jpg

1227 ms

educationplug.jpg

educationplug.jpg

1165 ms

ipsofooter.png

ipsofooter.png

1016 ms

1x1.gif

1x1.gif

969 ms

get_image.aspx

get_image.aspx

345 ms

t.gif

t.gif

648 ms

3b3f10b0b8.css

3b3f10b0b8.css

99 ms

pubads_impl.js

pubads_impl.js

92 ms

font-awesome-css.min.css

font-awesome-css.min.css

15 ms

imsbgsept.jpg

imsbgsept.jpg

1152 ms

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150 ms

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159 ms

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201 ms

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202 ms

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202 ms

fontawesome-webfont.woff

fontawesome-webfont.woff

149 ms

weathericons-regular-webfont.woff

weathericons-regular-webfont.woff

1229 ms

widget_iframe.2f70fb173b9000da126c79afe2098f02.html

widget_iframe.2f70fb173b9000da126c79afe2098f02.html

94 ms

settings

settings

119 ms

Accessibility Review

kentmessenger.co.uk accessibility score

72

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

ARIA input fields do not have accessible names

High

Elements with an ARIA [role] that require children to contain a specific [role] are missing some or all of those required children.

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.

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

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

kentmessenger.co.uk best practices score

58

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

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

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

kentmessenger.co.uk SEO score

75

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 Kentmessenger.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 Kentmessenger.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

kentmessenger.co.uk

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Kent Messenger. 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: