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Report Summary

  • 21

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    39% of other websites

  • 85

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 58% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    20% of websites

  • 84

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    52% of websites

media.smh.com.au

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

Page Load Speed

3.5 sec in total

First Response

973 ms

Resources Loaded

2.2 sec

Page Rendered

329 ms

media.smh.com.au screenshot

About Website

Click here to check amazing Media SMH content for Australia. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about media.smh.com.au

Breaking news from Sydney, Australia and the world. Features the latest business, sport, entertainment, travel, lifestyle, and technology news.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Media.smh.com.au page load time and found that the first response time was 973 ms and then it took 2.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

media.smh.com.au performance score

21

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.3 s

18/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.8 s

15/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value57.3 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value98,570 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.039

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value127.5 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

media.smh.com.au

973 ms

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21 ms

Our browser made a total of 168 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Media.smh.com.au, 28% (47 requests) were made to Images.smh.com.au and 10% (17 requests) were made to Assets.adobedtm.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (973 ms) belongs to the original domain Media.smh.com.au.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 2.1 MB (61%)

Content Size

3.4 MB

After Optimization

1.4 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Media.smh.com.au main page is 3.4 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. Javascripts take 2.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 181.6 kB

  • Original 225.2 kB
  • After minification 205.9 kB
  • After compression 43.6 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 181.6 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 28.1 kB

  • Original 457.9 kB
  • After minification 429.8 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. Media SMH images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-66%

Potential reduce by 1.6 MB

  • Original 2.4 MB
  • After minification 2.4 MB
  • After compression 816.5 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 1.6 MB or 66% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 267.9 kB

  • Original 330.8 kB
  • After minification 324.1 kB
  • After compression 62.9 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. Media.smh.com.au needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 267.9 kB or 81% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 83 (52%)

Requests Now

160

After Optimization

77

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 160 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Media 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 63 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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Accessibility Review

media.smh.com.au accessibility score

85

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

High

<object> elements do not have alternate text

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

media.smh.com.au best practices score

58

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

High

Includes front-end JavaScript libraries with known security vulnerabilities

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

media.smh.com.au SEO score

84

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 Media.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 Media.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

media.smh.com.au

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