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Report Summary

  • 26

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    45% of other websites

  • 79

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 47% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 77

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    36% of websites

north-star-news.co.uk

Ross-shire Journal - the latest News and Sport for Ross-shire

Page Load Speed

2.7 sec in total

First Response

259 ms

Resources Loaded

1.2 sec

Page Rendered

1.3 sec

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About Website

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The Latest News, Sport and What's On from Dingwall and Ross-shire - Ross-shire Journal and North Star News

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Key Findings

We analyzed North-star-news.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 259 ms and then it took 2.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

north-star-news.co.uk performance score

26

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.6 s

31/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value12.2 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.9 s

22/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,390 ms

16/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.063

97/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value12.7 s

13/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

north-star-news.co.uk

259 ms

www.ross-shirejournal.co.uk

333 ms

bundle-v7554980.css

11 ms

bundle-v7559474.js

24 ms

gpt.js

139 ms

Our browser made a total of 26 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 4% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original North-star-news.co.uk, 58% (15 requests) were made to Ross-shirejournal.co.uk and 15% (4 requests) were made to Use.fontawesome.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (533 ms) relates to the external source Micro.rubiconproject.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 378.4 kB (34%)

Content Size

1.1 MB

After Optimization

734.3 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of North-star-news.co.uk main page is 1.1 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. Javascripts take 662.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 71.6 kB

  • Original 88.3 kB
  • After minification 87.4 kB
  • After compression 16.7 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 71.6 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 568 B

  • Original 354.0 kB
  • After minification 353.4 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. Northstar News images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-46%

Potential reduce by 306.2 kB

  • Original 662.4 kB
  • After minification 662.4 kB
  • After compression 356.1 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 306.2 kB or 46% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 8.0 kB
  • After minification 8.0 kB
  • After compression 8.0 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. North-star-news.co.uk has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 7 (33%)

Requests Now

21

After Optimization

14

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 21 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Northstar News. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 8 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

north-star-news.co.uk

north-star-news.co.uk

259 ms

www.ross-shirejournal.co.uk

www.ross-shirejournal.co.uk

333 ms

bundle-v7554980.css

bundle-v7554980.css

11 ms

bundle-v7559474.js

bundle-v7559474.js

24 ms

gpt.js

gpt.js

139 ms

11022.js

11022.js

533 ms

wp-banners.js

wp-banners.js

100 ms

all.css

all.css

39 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

81 ms

rossshirejournallogo.jpg

rossshirejournallogo.jpg

14 ms

x-twitter.png

x-twitter.png

14 ms

rossshirejournallogo23.jpg

rossshirejournallogo23.jpg

17 ms

hnm-white-logo.png

hnm-white-logo.png

17 ms

twitterx.png

twitterx.png

19 ms

ipso_regulated_footer.jpg

ipso_regulated_footer.jpg

19 ms

1x1.gif

1x1.gif

20 ms

banner

banner

141 ms

datalayer

datalayer

110 ms

arcomedyclub.jpg

arcomedyclub.jpg

71 ms

ross-bg.jpg

ross-bg.jpg

73 ms

nationalback.jpg

nationalback.jpg

72 ms

pubads_impl.js

pubads_impl.js

164 ms

js

js

112 ms

fa-solid-900.woff

fa-solid-900.woff

151 ms

fa-regular-400.woff

fa-regular-400.woff

188 ms

fa-brands-400.woff

fa-brands-400.woff

199 ms

Accessibility Review

north-star-news.co.uk accessibility score

79

Accessibility Issues

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

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

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

north-star-news.co.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

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

north-star-news.co.uk SEO score

77

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 North-star-news.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 North-star-news.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

north-star-news.co.uk

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