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Report Summary

  • 31

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    51% of other websites

  • 78

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 45% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

regionalindependent.com.au

Regional Independent Bungendore - Community Newspaper

Page Load Speed

25.2 sec in total

First Response

3.3 sec

Resources Loaded

21.6 sec

Page Rendered

334 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Regionalindependent.com.au page load time and found that the first response time was 3.3 sec and then it took 21.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 95% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

regionalindependent.com.au performance score

31

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value19.4 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value20.5 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value41.0 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value560 ms

53/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.005

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value23.4 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.regionalindependent.com.au

3298 ms

styles.css

221 ms

style.min.css

435 ms

style.css

820 ms

responsive.css

615 ms

Our browser made a total of 45 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 71% of them (32 requests) were addressed to the original Regionalindependent.com.au, 13% (6 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 7% (3 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (3.3 sec) belongs to the original domain Regionalindependent.com.au.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 173.6 kB (17%)

Content Size

992.5 kB

After Optimization

819.0 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Regionalindependent.com.au main page is 992.5 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. 45% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 673.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 42.5 kB

  • Original 53.0 kB
  • After minification 49.4 kB
  • After compression 10.5 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 42.5 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 49.1 kB

  • Original 673.1 kB
  • After minification 624.0 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. Regional Independent images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-26%

Potential reduce by 44.4 kB

  • Original 168.7 kB
  • After minification 166.2 kB
  • After compression 124.3 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 44.4 kB or 26% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-38%

Potential reduce by 37.6 kB

  • Original 97.7 kB
  • After minification 97.4 kB
  • After compression 60.1 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. Regionalindependent.com.au needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 37.6 kB or 38% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 30 (81%)

Requests Now

37

After Optimization

7

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 37 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Regional Independent. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 20 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 12 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

www.regionalindependent.com.au

www.regionalindependent.com.au

3298 ms

styles.css

styles.css

221 ms

style.min.css

style.min.css

435 ms

style.css

style.css

820 ms

responsive.css

responsive.css

615 ms

css

css

44 ms

elementor-icons.min.css

elementor-icons.min.css

638 ms

frontend.min.css

frontend.min.css

852 ms

swiper.min.css

swiper.min.css

641 ms

post-5105.css

post-5105.css

650 ms

global.css

global.css

828 ms

post-14459.css

post-14459.css

861 ms

css

css

41 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

1071 ms

jquery-migrate.min.js

jquery-migrate.min.js

867 ms

js

js

67 ms

index.js

index.js

1023 ms

index.js

index.js

1031 ms

gallery.min.js

gallery.min.js

1067 ms

modernizr.js

modernizr.js

1314 ms

jquery.easing.js

jquery.easing.js

1180 ms

jquery.waypoints.js

jquery.waypoints.js

1228 ms

jquery.cycle.js

jquery.cycle.js

1463 ms

greenturtle-mag-custom.js

greenturtle-mag-custom.js

1397 ms

navigation.js

navigation.js

1399 ms

skip-link-focus-fix.js

skip-link-focus-fix.js

1401 ms

webpack.runtime.min.js

webpack.runtime.min.js

1435 ms

frontend-modules.min.js

frontend-modules.min.js

1498 ms

waypoints.min.js

waypoints.min.js

1495 ms

core.min.js

core.min.js

1500 ms

frontend.min.js

frontend.min.js

1505 ms

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pattern-apuv.png

755 ms

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cropped-Regional-Independent-logo4-1.jpg

784 ms

BUNG00106.jpg

BUNG00106.jpg

1460 ms

js

js

78 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

27 ms

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724 ms

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152 ms

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59 ms

Accessibility Review

regionalindependent.com.au accessibility score

78

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

[aria-*] attributes do not have valid values

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

Links do not have a discernible name

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.

Best Practices

regionalindependent.com.au best practices score

92

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

SEO Factors

regionalindependent.com.au SEO score

86

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

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 Regionalindependent.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 Regionalindependent.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

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