Report Summary

  • 18

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    34% of other websites

  • 83

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 54% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 99

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    93% of websites

macarthuradvertiser.com.au

St George news, sport and weather | St George & Sutherland Shire Leader | St George, NSW

Page Load Speed

4.1 sec in total

First Response

34 ms

Resources Loaded

2.9 sec

Page Rendered

1.2 sec

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St George & Sutherland Shire Leader delivers latest news from St George NSW including sport, weather, entertainment and lifestyle.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Macarthuradvertiser.com.au page load time and found that the first response time was 34 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

macarthuradvertiser.com.au performance score

18

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.1 s

22/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.0 s

27/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value11.5 s

5/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value10,570 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.229

54/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value37.7 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

macarthuradvertiser.com.au

34 ms

www.theleader.com.au

1064 ms

cd43cd1c42b14e6e.css

38 ms

069eae6bc01ff555.css

47 ms

2e824b13eee648a1.css

46 ms

Our browser made a total of 158 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Macarthuradvertiser.com.au, 87% (138 requests) were made to Theleader.com.au and 9% (15 requests) were made to Cdn.newsnow.io. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.4 sec) relates to the external source Cdn.newsnow.io.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 426.9 kB (25%)

Content Size

1.7 MB

After Optimization

1.3 MB

In fact, the total size of Macarthuradvertiser.com.au 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. 75% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Javascripts take 660.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 395.9 kB

  • Original 467.1 kB
  • After minification 467.1 kB
  • After compression 71.2 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 395.9 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 849 B

  • Original 538.8 kB
  • After minification 537.9 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. Macarthuradvertiser images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 2.4 kB

  • Original 660.8 kB
  • After minification 660.8 kB
  • After compression 658.4 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

-81%

Potential reduce by 27.8 kB

  • Original 34.1 kB
  • After minification 6.7 kB
  • After compression 6.3 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. Macarthuradvertiser.com.au needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 27.8 kB or 81% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 54 (35%)

Requests Now

156

After Optimization

102

The browser has sent 156 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Macarthuradvertiser. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 49 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

macarthuradvertiser.com.au accessibility score

83

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

button, link, and menuitem elements do not have accessible names.

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

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

High

Some elements have a [tabindex] value greater than 0

Best Practices

macarthuradvertiser.com.au best practices score

83

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

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

macarthuradvertiser.com.au SEO score

99

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Macarthuradvertiser.com.au 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 Macarthuradvertiser.com.au 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 data is detected on the main page of Macarthuradvertiser. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: