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Report Summary

  • 21

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    39% of other websites

  • 54

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 23% of websites

  • 0

    Best Practices

  • 77

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    36% of websites

perthherald.com

Perth Herald - News Resource for Perth, Western Australia

Page Load Speed

2.1 sec in total

First Response

23 ms

Resources Loaded

1.4 sec

Page Rendered

644 ms

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About Website

Visit perthherald.com now to see the best up-to-date Perth Herald content and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about perthherald.com

Specialist news provider covering Perth in Western Australia. This online newspaper also displays international and national headlines.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Perthherald.com page load time and found that the first response time was 23 ms and then it took 2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 40% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

perthherald.com performance score

21

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.2 s

19/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.5 s

9/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.1 s

45/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,060 ms

2/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.143

78/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value22.3 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

perthherald.com

23 ms

www.perthherald.com

57 ms

foundation.min.css

50 ms

white_style.css

86 ms

jquery.min.js

72 ms

Our browser made a total of 64 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 3% of them (2 requests) were addressed to the original Perthherald.com, 31% (20 requests) were made to Static.midwestradionetwork.com and 22% (14 requests) were made to Cdn.bignewsnetwork.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (533 ms) relates to the external source Akl-navvy.media.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 46.2 kB (3%)

Content Size

1.4 MB

After Optimization

1.3 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Perthherald.com main page is 1.4 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. 75% 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 1.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 30.3 kB

  • Original 40.0 kB
  • After minification 32.3 kB
  • After compression 9.7 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 7.7 kB, which is 19% 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 30.3 kB or 76% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 12.7 kB

  • Original 1.1 MB
  • After minification 1.1 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. Perth Herald images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 2.4 kB

  • Original 142.2 kB
  • After minification 142.2 kB
  • After compression 139.8 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 755 B

  • Original 64.5 kB
  • After minification 64.5 kB
  • After compression 63.7 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. Perthherald.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 14 (26%)

Requests Now

53

After Optimization

39

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 53 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Perth 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 10 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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23 ms

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57 ms

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50 ms

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86 ms

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72 ms

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85 ms

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49 ms

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87 ms

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30 ms

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52 ms

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131 ms

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482 ms

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400 ms

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237 ms

Accessibility Review

perthherald.com accessibility score

54

Accessibility Issues

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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

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.

SEO Factors

perthherald.com 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

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 Perthherald.com 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 Perthherald.com 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

perthherald.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Perth Herald. 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: