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Report Summary

  • 15

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    27% of other websites

  • 81

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 51% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    20% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    74% of websites

newsfour.ie

News Four

Page Load Speed

10.8 sec in total

First Response

2.9 sec

Resources Loaded

7.5 sec

Page Rendered

398 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Newsfour.ie page load time and found that the first response time was 2.9 sec and then it took 7.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 85% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

newsfour.ie performance score

15

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value7.7 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.2 s

2/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value20.7 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value10,560 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.078

95/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value38.6 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.newsfour.ie

2860 ms

css

33 ms

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436 ms

pagenavi-css.css

183 ms

reset.css

183 ms

Our browser made a total of 141 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 38% of them (54 requests) were addressed to the original Newsfour.ie, 13% (18 requests) were made to Platform.twitter.com and 7% (10 requests) were made to Static.xx.fbcdn.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.9 sec) belongs to the original domain Newsfour.ie.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 917.8 kB (27%)

Content Size

3.5 MB

After Optimization

2.5 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Newsfour.ie main page is 3.5 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. 80% 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. Images take 1.8 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 100.3 kB

  • Original 121.1 kB
  • After minification 101.9 kB
  • After compression 20.8 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 19.3 kB, which is 16% 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 100.3 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 115.2 kB

  • Original 1.8 MB
  • After minification 1.7 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. News Four images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-36%

Potential reduce by 426.8 kB

  • Original 1.2 MB
  • After minification 1.2 MB
  • After compression 759.8 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 426.8 kB or 36% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 275.5 kB

  • Original 319.3 kB
  • After minification 258.0 kB
  • After compression 43.8 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. Newsfour.ie needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 275.5 kB or 86% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 88 (68%)

Requests Now

130

After Optimization

42

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 130 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of News Four. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 60 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 17 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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Accessibility Review

newsfour.ie accessibility score

81

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

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

High

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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>).

Best Practices

newsfour.ie best practices score

58

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

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

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

newsfour.ie SEO score

92

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 Newsfour.ie 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 Newsfour.ie 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

newsfour.ie

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