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Report Summary

  • 20

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    38% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    84% of websites

m.plymouthherald.co.uk

Plymouth Live - Latest local news, sport & business from Plymouth

Page Load Speed

12.6 sec in total

First Response

152 ms

Resources Loaded

2 sec

Page Rendered

10.4 sec

m.plymouthherald.co.uk screenshot

About Website

Welcome to m.plymouthherald.co.uk homepage info - get ready to check M Plymouth Herald best content for United Kingdom right away, or after learning these important things about m.plymouthherald.co.uk

Latest news, sport and events from around Plymouth. Including opinion, live blogs, pictures and video from the Plymouth Live team, formerly Plymouth Herald.

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Key Findings

We analyzed M.plymouthherald.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 152 ms and then it took 12.4 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

m.plymouthherald.co.uk performance score

20

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.7 s

60/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value13.3 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.6 s

26/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,280 ms

18/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.308

38/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value18.0 s

3/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

m.plymouthherald.co.uk

152 ms

www.plymouthherald.co.uk

41 ms

section-base.css

82 ms

chameleon-static-html-clipper.css

91 ms

marwood-extended.css

100 ms

Our browser made a total of 72 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original M.plymouthherald.co.uk, 32% (23 requests) were made to S2-prod.plymouthherald.co.uk and 8% (6 requests) were made to S3.mirror.co.uk. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1 sec) relates to the external source Js-sec.indexww.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 579.7 kB (67%)

Content Size

860.1 kB

After Optimization

280.4 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of M.plymouthherald.co.uk main page is 860.1 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. 85% 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. HTML takes 479.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 409.5 kB

  • Original 479.3 kB
  • After minification 478.5 kB
  • After compression 69.7 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 409.5 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 2.2 kB

  • Original 55.7 kB
  • After minification 53.6 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. M Plymouth Herald images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-60%

Potential reduce by 166.6 kB

  • Original 276.8 kB
  • After minification 270.8 kB
  • After compression 110.1 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 166.6 kB or 60% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 1.4 kB

  • Original 48.4 kB
  • After minification 48.3 kB
  • After compression 47.0 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. M.plymouthherald.co.uk has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 46 (72%)

Requests Now

64

After Optimization

18

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 64 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of M Plymouth Herald. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 34 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 14 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

m.plymouthherald.co.uk

m.plymouthherald.co.uk

152 ms

www.plymouthherald.co.uk

www.plymouthherald.co.uk

41 ms

section-base.css

section-base.css

82 ms

chameleon-static-html-clipper.css

chameleon-static-html-clipper.css

91 ms

marwood-extended.css

marwood-extended.css

100 ms

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97 ms

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207 ms

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348 ms

s.min.js

s.min.js

192 ms

runForceReconsent.min.js

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182 ms

gpt.js

gpt.js

204 ms

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205 ms

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191 ms

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190 ms

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237 ms

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199 ms

chameleon-static-html-clipper.min.js

chameleon-static-html-clipper.min.js

236 ms

section.min.js

section.min.js

235 ms

withnail.min.js

withnail.min.js

340 ms

ats.js

ats.js

355 ms

smile-web.min.js

smile-web.min.js

338 ms

style.css

style.css

334 ms

index.js

index.js

339 ms

auth-ui.min.js

auth-ui.min.js

355 ms

analytics.js.gz

analytics.js.gz

338 ms

contentSquare.min.js

contentSquare.min.js

341 ms

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gtm.js

381 ms

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1001 ms

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apstag.js

333 ms

analytics.config.json

analytics.config.json

510 ms

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0_Plymouth-Live-_Reversed.png

320 ms

transparent.png

transparent.png

198 ms

section.css

section.css

171 ms

withnail.css

withnail.css

184 ms

section.css

section.css

193 ms

transparent-wide.png

transparent-wide.png

181 ms

logo-plymouthherald.png

logo-plymouthherald.png

197 ms

outside-black.svg

outside-black.svg

253 ms

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141 ms

ppub_config

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199 ms

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80 ms

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89 ms

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47 ms

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125 ms

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267 ms

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267 ms

optimize.js

optimize.js

509 ms

door.js

door.js

498 ms

verify-2.0.1.min.js

verify-2.0.1.min.js

500 ms

js

js

163 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

151 ms

widgetHomepage.js

widgetHomepage.js

251 ms

tag.min.js

tag.min.js

249 ms

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303 ms

static.min.js

static.min.js

303 ms

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publishertag.js

267 ms

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collect

96 ms

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64 ms

icon

icon

97 ms

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collect

228 ms

iya.css

iya.css

62 ms

iya-plymouthherald.css

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66 ms

container-polyfills.js

container-polyfills.js

43 ms

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iya-test-bkg.jpg

121 ms

default.gif

default.gif

120 ms

logo-InYourArea.svg

logo-InYourArea.svg

124 ms

mirrorcouk.min.js

mirrorcouk.min.js

59 ms

%2F

%2F

111 ms

reach-beacon.min.js

reach-beacon.min.js

97 ms

ga-audiences

ga-audiences

147 ms

syncframe

syncframe

40 ms

Accessibility Review

m.plymouthherald.co.uk accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

m.plymouthherald.co.uk best practices score

75

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

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

m.plymouthherald.co.uk SEO score

93

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

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

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 M.plymouthherald.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 M.plymouthherald.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

m.plymouthherald.co.uk

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of M Plymouth Herald. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: