Report Summary

  • 23

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    41% of other websites

  • 87

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 66% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 70

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    29% of websites

staging.nine.com.au

nine.com.au -- the new ninemsn - News, Sport, TV, Entertainment, Lifestyle | Latest Breaking News Headlines from Australia and the world

Page Load Speed

20.4 sec in total

First Response

5.1 sec

Resources Loaded

12.6 sec

Page Rendered

2.7 sec

staging.nine.com.au screenshot

About Website

Visit staging.nine.com.au now to see the best up-to-date Staging Nine content for Australia and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about staging.nine.com.au

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Key Findings

We analyzed Staging.nine.com.au page load time and found that the first response time was 5.1 sec and then it took 15.4 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

staging.nine.com.au performance score

23

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.8 s

28/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.3 s

22/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value21.1 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value8,290 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.06

98/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value42.1 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

staging.nine.com.au

5064 ms

14859.html

273 ms

https%3A%2F%2Fstaging.static9.net.au%2Ffs%2F1f09a362-ffeb-4510-a46a-66742d203778

389 ms

logo-bing.d35dee25.svg

153 ms

https%3A%2F%2Fstaging.static9.net.au%2Ffs%2Fc0539f28-9ae3-45d2-9241-dc9c585725ee

2312 ms

Our browser made a total of 118 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 19% of them (22 requests) were addressed to the original Staging.nine.com.au, 77% (91 requests) were made to Staging.imageresizer.static9.net.au and 3% (3 requests) were made to Interactives.ap.org. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (5.1 sec) belongs to the original domain Staging.nine.com.au.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 2.3 MB (33%)

Content Size

6.8 MB

After Optimization

4.5 MB

In fact, the total size of Staging.nine.com.au main page is 6.8 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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 4.6 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 1.5 MB

  • Original 1.8 MB
  • After minification 1.8 MB
  • After compression 264.1 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 1.5 MB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-11%

Potential reduce by 489.5 kB

  • Original 4.6 MB
  • After minification 4.1 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. Obviously, Staging Nine needs image optimization as it can save up to 489.5 kB or 11% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-62%

Potential reduce by 234.0 kB

  • Original 375.1 kB
  • After minification 375.1 kB
  • After compression 141.0 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 234.0 kB or 62% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-10%

Potential reduce by 50 B

  • Original 490 B
  • After minification 490 B
  • After compression 440 B

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. Staging.nine.com.au has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 11 (10%)

Requests Now

113

After Optimization

102

The browser has sent 113 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Staging Nine. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 7 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

staging.nine.com.au accessibility score

87

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

staging.nine.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

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

staging.nine.com.au SEO score

70

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

High

Page is blocked from indexing

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 Staging.nine.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 Staging.nine.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 Staging Nine. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: