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Report Summary

  • 11

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    24% of other websites

  • 94

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 83% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 62

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    23% of websites

m.plymouthherald.co.uk

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

Page Load Speed

4.1 sec in total

First Response

143 ms

Resources Loaded

1.8 sec

Page Rendered

2.2 sec

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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 143 ms and then it took 4 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

m.plymouthherald.co.uk performance score

11

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.2 s

44/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value14.5 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value14.4 s

1/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value5,660 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.291

41/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value42.3 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

m.plymouthherald.co.uk

143 ms

www.plymouthherald.co.uk

49 ms

analytics-browser-2.8.1-min.js.gz

79 ms

choice.js

440 ms

section-base.css

558 ms

Our browser made a total of 51 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original M.plymouthherald.co.uk, 51% (26 requests) were made to S2-prod.plymouthherald.co.uk and 8% (4 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1 sec) relates to the external source S2-prod.plymouthherald.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 737.3 kB (35%)

Content Size

2.1 MB

After Optimization

1.4 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of M.plymouthherald.co.uk main page is 2.1 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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 1.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 713.5 kB

  • Original 857.7 kB
  • After minification 856.8 kB
  • After compression 144.2 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 713.5 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-10%

Potential reduce by 4.2 kB

  • Original 40.2 kB
  • After minification 36.0 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

-2%

Potential reduce by 18.6 kB

  • Original 1.2 MB
  • After minification 1.2 MB
  • After compression 1.1 MB

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

-2%

Potential reduce by 1.1 kB

  • Original 47.0 kB
  • After minification 47.0 kB
  • After compression 46.0 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 35 (80%)

Requests Now

44

After Optimization

9

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 44 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 27 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 10 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

143 ms

www.plymouthherald.co.uk

www.plymouthherald.co.uk

49 ms

analytics-browser-2.8.1-min.js.gz

analytics-browser-2.8.1-min.js.gz

79 ms

choice.js

choice.js

440 ms

section-base.css

section-base.css

558 ms

chameleon-static-html.css

chameleon-static-html.css

88 ms

marwood-extended.css

marwood-extended.css

91 ms

brand-extended-clipper.76067342817f6607.css

brand-extended-clipper.76067342817f6607.css

99 ms

css2

css2

89 ms

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98 ms

s.min.js

s.min.js

85 ms

runForceReconsent.min.js

runForceReconsent.min.js

93 ms

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iasPET.1.js

95 ms

prebid-test.js

prebid-test.js

96 ms

tags.min.js

tags.min.js

92 ms

chartbeat_mab.js

chartbeat_mab.js

88 ms

section.min.js

section.min.js

1031 ms

partner.min.js

partner.min.js

92 ms

chameleon-static-html.min.js

chameleon-static-html.min.js

91 ms

section.min.js

section.min.js

94 ms

withnail.min.js

withnail.min.js

96 ms

smile-web.min.js

smile-web.min.js

94 ms

style.css

style.css

102 ms

index.js

index.js

96 ms

auth-ui.min.js

auth-ui.min.js

127 ms

analytics.js.gz

analytics.js.gz

91 ms

contentSquare.min.js

contentSquare.min.js

99 ms

ebx.js

ebx.js

109 ms

transparent.png

transparent.png

42 ms

transparent-wide.png

transparent-wide.png

69 ms

cmp2-polyfilled.js

cmp2-polyfilled.js

3 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

500 ms

apstag.js

apstag.js

127 ms

analytics.config.json

analytics.config.json

317 ms

0_PlymouthLive.png

0_PlymouthLive.png

155 ms

logo-plymouthherald.png

logo-plymouthherald.png

75 ms

outside-black.svg

outside-black.svg

74 ms

section.css

section.css

20 ms

withnail.css

withnail.css

21 ms

section.css

section.css

356 ms

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19 ms

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89 ms

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5 ms

css2

css2

27 ms

du_elections_ge_totalizer_latest.min.js

du_elections_ge_totalizer_latest.min.js

101 ms

prebid.js

prebid.js

80 ms

tag

tag

76 ms

ads.js

ads.js

37 ms

Accessibility Review

m.plymouthherald.co.uk accessibility score

94

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

Links do not have a discernible name

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

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

m.plymouthherald.co.uk SEO score

62

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

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: