Report Summary

  • 35

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    55% of other websites

  • 94

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 84% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 81

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    43% of websites

welshnewspapers.llgc.org.uk

Welsh Newspapers Online - Home

Page Load Speed

2.4 sec in total

First Response

277 ms

Resources Loaded

2 sec

Page Rendered

151 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Welshnewspapers.llgc.org.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 277 ms and then it took 2.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 40% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

welshnewspapers.llgc.org.uk performance score

35

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.6 s

5/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.0 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value14.3 s

1/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value540 ms

54/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.038

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value9.8 s

28/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

welshnewspapers.llgc.org.uk

277 ms

newspapers.library.wales

688 ms

bootstrap.css

522 ms

chosen.min.css

186 ms

ion.rangeSlider.css

183 ms

Our browser made a total of 38 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 3% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Welshnewspapers.llgc.org.uk, 74% (28 requests) were made to Newspapers.library.wales and 5% (2 requests) were made to Maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (688 ms) relates to the external source Newspapers.library.wales.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 543.6 kB (76%)

Content Size

719.2 kB

After Optimization

175.7 kB

In fact, the total size of Welshnewspapers.llgc.org.uk main page is 719.2 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. 40% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 378.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 84.1 kB

  • Original 98.9 kB
  • After minification 87.6 kB
  • After compression 14.8 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 11.3 kB, which is 11% of the original size. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 84.1 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-32%

Potential reduce by 10.0 kB

  • Original 31.2 kB
  • After minification 21.2 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. Obviously, Welsh Newspapers Llgc needs image optimization as it can save up to 10.0 kB or 32% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-72%

Potential reduce by 271.6 kB

  • Original 378.6 kB
  • After minification 301.5 kB
  • After compression 107.0 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 271.6 kB or 72% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 177.8 kB

  • Original 210.5 kB
  • After minification 169.8 kB
  • After compression 32.7 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. Welshnewspapers.llgc.org.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 177.8 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 18 (53%)

Requests Now

34

After Optimization

16

The browser has sent 34 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Welsh Newspapers Llgc. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 11 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 9 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

welshnewspapers.llgc.org.uk 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.

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

welshnewspapers.llgc.org.uk best practices score

83

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

SEO Factors

welshnewspapers.llgc.org.uk SEO score

81

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

High

robots.txt is not valid

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 Welshnewspapers.llgc.org.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 Welshnewspapers.llgc.org.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

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Welsh Newspapers Llgc. 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: