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Report Summary

  • 26

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    45% of other websites

  • 85

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 58% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 76

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    35% of websites

skemnews.com

Skelmersdale News | local news information for Lancashire | Skem News

Page Load Speed

7 sec in total

First Response

2 sec

Resources Loaded

4.7 sec

Page Rendered

356 ms

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About Website

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Skelmersdale News, a local source of news & community information for Skelmersdale, Lancashire and the surrounding areas. Visit us at SkemNews.com

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Key Findings

We analyzed Skemnews.com page load time and found that the first response time was 2 sec and then it took 5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 75% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

skemnews.com performance score

26

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.8 s

11/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.4 s

9/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.3 s

12/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,150 ms

22/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.084

93/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value14.2 s

9/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

skemnews.com

1952 ms

mediaelementplayer-legacy.min.css

38 ms

wp-mediaelement.min.css

45 ms

styles.css

216 ms

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323 ms

Our browser made a total of 83 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 34% of them (28 requests) were addressed to the original Skemnews.com, 36% (30 requests) were made to I0.wp.com and 12% (10 requests) were made to C0.wp.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2 sec) belongs to the original domain Skemnews.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 507.4 kB (32%)

Content Size

1.6 MB

After Optimization

1.1 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Skemnews.com main page is 1.6 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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 741.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 133.5 kB

  • Original 159.1 kB
  • After minification 145.3 kB
  • After compression 25.6 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 133.5 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 37.0 kB

  • Original 741.0 kB
  • After minification 704.0 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. Skem News images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-51%

Potential reduce by 223.5 kB

  • Original 440.3 kB
  • After minification 440.2 kB
  • After compression 216.8 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 223.5 kB or 51% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-49%

Potential reduce by 113.5 kB

  • Original 229.6 kB
  • After minification 219.2 kB
  • After compression 116.1 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. Skemnews.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 113.5 kB or 49% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 35 (45%)

Requests Now

77

After Optimization

42

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 77 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Skem News. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 23 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 14 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

skemnews.com

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Accessibility Review

skemnews.com 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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

skemnews.com best practices score

83

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

skemnews.com SEO score

76

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

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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 Skemnews.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 Skemnews.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

skemnews.com

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