Report Summary

  • 16

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    30% of other websites

  • 95

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 86% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

suttoncoldfieldobserver.co.uk

MySuttonColdfield - Latest news, what's on and events from Sutton Coldfield

Page Load Speed

2.3 sec in total

First Response

176 ms

Resources Loaded

872 ms

Page Rendered

1.3 sec

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Key Findings

We analyzed Suttoncoldfieldobserver.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 176 ms and then it took 2.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 45% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

suttoncoldfieldobserver.co.uk performance score

16

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.2 s

45/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value17.5 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value14.7 s

1/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,970 ms

3/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.161

73/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value31.0 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

suttoncoldfieldobserver.co.uk

176 ms

sutton-coldfield

13 ms

sutton-coldfield

41 ms

analytics-browser-2.8.1-min.js.gz

86 ms

choice.js

500 ms

Our browser made a total of 49 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Suttoncoldfieldobserver.co.uk, 47% (23 requests) were made to S2-prod.birminghammail.co.uk and 18% (9 requests) were made to Birminghammail.co.uk. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (500 ms) relates to the external source Cmp.inmobi.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 326.6 kB (26%)

Content Size

1.3 MB

After Optimization

931.8 kB

In fact, the total size of Suttoncoldfieldobserver.co.uk main page is 1.3 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 831.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 305.7 kB

  • Original 364.5 kB
  • After minification 363.9 kB
  • After compression 58.9 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 305.7 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-16%

Potential reduce by 2.3 kB

  • Original 14.9 kB
  • After minification 12.5 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, Sutton Coldfield Observer needs image optimization as it can save up to 2.3 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

-2%

Potential reduce by 17.5 kB

  • Original 831.9 kB
  • After minification 831.9 kB
  • After compression 814.4 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 1.0 kB

  • Original 47.0 kB
  • After minification 47.0 kB
  • After compression 46.0 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. Suttoncoldfieldobserver.co.uk has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 30 (79%)

Requests Now

38

After Optimization

8

The browser has sent 38 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Sutton Coldfield Observer. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 22 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 10 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

suttoncoldfieldobserver.co.uk accessibility score

95

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

Best Practices

suttoncoldfieldobserver.co.uk best practices score

75

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

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

suttoncoldfieldobserver.co.uk SEO score

86

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

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

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 Suttoncoldfieldobserver.co.uk 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 Suttoncoldfieldobserver.co.uk 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 data is detected on the main page of Sutton Coldfield Observer. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: