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Report Summary

  • 48

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    67% of other websites

  • 84

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 57% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 91

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    71% of websites

news.stv.tv

STV News | The home of Scottish News, Sport & Weather

Page Load Speed

3.1 sec in total

First Response

257 ms

Resources Loaded

2.4 sec

Page Rendered

424 ms

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About Website

Visit news.stv.tv now to see the best up-to-date News STV content for United Kingdom and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about news.stv.tv

The latest breaking news, video, sport, politics, entertainment, analysis and special reports from across Scotland.

Visit news.stv.tv

Key Findings

We analyzed News.stv.tv page load time and found that the first response time was 257 ms and then it took 2.8 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

news.stv.tv performance score

48

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.1 s

9/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.9 s

7/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.1 s

62/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value390 ms

69/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.015

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value9.0 s

34/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

news.stv.tv

257 ms

webfont.js

21 ms

style-1.min.css

383 ms

style-2.min.css

316 ms

modernizr-2.0.6-min.js

153 ms

Our browser made a total of 90 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 13% of them (12 requests) were addressed to the original News.stv.tv, 17% (15 requests) were made to Files.stv.tv and 12% (11 requests) were made to Core.stvfiles.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (788 ms) relates to the external source Services.postcodeanywhere.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.4 MB (48%)

Content Size

2.9 MB

After Optimization

1.5 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of News.stv.tv main page is 2.9 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 1.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 193.7 kB

  • Original 243.7 kB
  • After minification 229.7 kB
  • After compression 50.0 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 193.7 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 3.7 kB

  • Original 943.6 kB
  • After minification 939.9 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. News STV images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-68%

Potential reduce by 885.4 kB

  • Original 1.3 MB
  • After minification 1.3 MB
  • After compression 419.6 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 885.4 kB or 68% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 287.8 kB

  • Original 377.1 kB
  • After minification 376.8 kB
  • After compression 89.2 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. News.stv.tv needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 287.8 kB or 76% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 43 (53%)

Requests Now

81

After Optimization

38

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 81 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of News STV. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 37 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

news.stv.tv

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21 ms

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Accessibility Review

news.stv.tv accessibility score

84

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Best Practices

news.stv.tv 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

news.stv.tv SEO score

91

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

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise News.stv.tv can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that News.stv.tv 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

news.stv.tv

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of News STV. 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: