Report Summary

  • 38

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    58% of other websites

  • 67

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 32% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 82

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    44% of websites

localrags.co.uk

localrags.co.uk

Page Load Speed

12 sec in total

First Response

1.7 sec

Resources Loaded

9.8 sec

Page Rendered

529 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Localrags.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 1.7 sec and then it took 10.3 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

localrags.co.uk performance score

38

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.7 s

13/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.4 s

2/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.3 s

42/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value360 ms

72/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.307

38/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value7.9 s

43/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

localrags.co.uk

1712 ms

adsbygoogle.js

6 ms

jcss.php

180 ms

mo2json.php

1212 ms

jcss.php

1494 ms

Our browser made a total of 106 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 28% of them (30 requests) were addressed to the original Localrags.co.uk, 15% (16 requests) were made to Tpc.googlesyndication.com and 8% (8 requests) were made to Googleads.g.doubleclick.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (6.3 sec) relates to the external source M.addthis.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.6 MB (45%)

Content Size

3.4 MB

After Optimization

1.9 MB

In fact, the total size of Localrags.co.uk main page is 3.4 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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 2.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 175.0 kB

  • Original 213.1 kB
  • After minification 208.8 kB
  • After compression 38.1 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 175.0 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 48.9 kB

  • Original 1.1 MB
  • After minification 1.0 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. Localrags images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-62%

Potential reduce by 1.3 MB

  • Original 2.1 MB
  • After minification 2.1 MB
  • After compression 803.7 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 1.3 MB or 62% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 6.3 kB

  • Original 8.0 kB
  • After minification 6.6 kB
  • After compression 1.7 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. Localrags.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 6.3 kB or 79% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 44 (44%)

Requests Now

100

After Optimization

56

The browser has sent 100 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Localrags. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 28 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

localrags.co.uk accessibility score

67

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-*] attributes do not have valid values

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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

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>).

High

List items (<li>) are not contained within <ul> or <ol> parent elements.

Best Practices

localrags.co.uk best practices score

92

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

localrags.co.uk SEO score

82

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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

    WINDOWS-1252

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Localrags.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 Localrags.co.uk main page’s claimed encoding is windows-1252. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

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