Report Summary

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beta.smh.com.au

Australian Breaking News Headlines & World News Online | SMH.com.au

Page Load Speed

12 sec in total

First Response

449 ms

Resources Loaded

7.3 sec

Page Rendered

4.3 sec

beta.smh.com.au screenshot

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Beta.smh.com.au page load time and found that the first response time was 449 ms and then it took 11.6 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

beta.smh.com.au performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

beta.smh.com.au

449 ms

desktop.min.clientlibversion.834eb2b25a10f839772c143d7eafc2e8.css

150 ms

smh.min.clientlibversion.82e3e435bbec10bcd5d8519cf1dd11dc.css

172 ms

satelliteLib-fc35eab6559a121532bab25bb77b90e6a30892b9.js

122 ms

jquery-1.x.min.js

157 ms

Our browser made a total of 325 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 42% of them (137 requests) were addressed to the original Beta.smh.com.au, 8% (25 requests) were made to Assets.adobedtm.com and 7% (22 requests) were made to Static.xx.fbcdn.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.9 sec) belongs to the original domain Beta.smh.com.au.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.4 MB (46%)

Content Size

3.1 MB

After Optimization

1.7 MB

In fact, the total size of Beta.smh.com.au main page is 3.1 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. 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. Javascripts take 1.5 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 290.9 kB

  • Original 352.1 kB
  • After minification 304.4 kB
  • After compression 61.2 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 47.6 kB, which is 14% 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 290.9 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-12%

Potential reduce by 144.7 kB

  • Original 1.2 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. Obviously, Beta SMH needs image optimization as it can save up to 144.7 kB or 12% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-63%

Potential reduce by 962.5 kB

  • Original 1.5 MB
  • After minification 1.4 MB
  • After compression 557.9 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 962.5 kB or 63% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 7.4 kB

  • Original 9.5 kB
  • After minification 9.4 kB
  • After compression 2.1 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. Beta.smh.com.au needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 7.4 kB or 78% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 123 (40%)

Requests Now

308

After Optimization

185

The browser has sent 308 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Beta SMH. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 95 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 10 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

beta.smh.com.au SEO score

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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 Beta.smh.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 Beta.smh.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 description is not detected on the main page of Beta SMH. 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: