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Report Summary

  • 7

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    22% of other websites

  • 83

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 56% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 90

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    68% of websites

spicenews.com.au

Home - Spice News

Page Load Speed

10 sec in total

First Response

826 ms

Resources Loaded

8.6 sec

Page Rendered

544 ms

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About Website

Click here to check amazing Spice News content for Australia. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about spicenews.com.au

Spice News is the go-to news source for the events industry, bringing you the latest in hotel and venue openings and refurbishments, special events, suppliers, destinations, airlines, as well as the m...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Spicenews.com.au page load time and found that the first response time was 826 ms and then it took 9.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 85% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

spicenews.com.au performance score

7

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.3 s

17/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value38.4 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value14.0 s

1/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,570 ms

13/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.626

9/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value32.3 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.spicenews.com.au

826 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

454 ms

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467 ms

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466 ms

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465 ms

Our browser made a total of 140 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 59% of them (82 requests) were addressed to the original Spicenews.com.au, 6% (9 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 6% (9 requests) were made to Apis.google.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.9 sec) belongs to the original domain Spicenews.com.au.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 938.8 kB (47%)

Content Size

2.0 MB

After Optimization

1.1 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Spicenews.com.au main page is 2.0 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. 80% 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. Images take 903.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 83.6 kB

  • Original 104.1 kB
  • After minification 104.1 kB
  • After compression 20.5 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 83.6 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-16%

Potential reduce by 145.7 kB

  • Original 903.5 kB
  • After minification 757.7 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. Obviously, Spice News needs image optimization as it can save up to 145.7 kB or 16% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-68%

Potential reduce by 513.0 kB

  • Original 754.8 kB
  • After minification 711.4 kB
  • After compression 241.8 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 513.0 kB or 68% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 196.5 kB

  • Original 233.9 kB
  • After minification 187.6 kB
  • After compression 37.3 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. Spicenews.com.au needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 196.5 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 59 (46%)

Requests Now

128

After Optimization

69

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 128 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Spice 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 44 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 17 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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Accessibility Review

spicenews.com.au accessibility score

83

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-hidden="true"] elements contain focusable descendents

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Lists do not contain only <li> elements and script supporting elements (<script> and <template>).

Best Practices

spicenews.com.au best practices score

75

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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

spicenews.com.au SEO score

90

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Spicenews.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 Spicenews.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

spicenews.com.au

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