Report Summary

  • 29

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    49% of other websites

  • 74

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 41% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 90

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    68% of websites

favourite.thesun.co.uk

Horse Racing News - Horse Racing Results, Tips & Cards | The Sun

Page Load Speed

2.9 sec in total

First Response

66 ms

Resources Loaded

1.7 sec

Page Rendered

1.1 sec

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Key Findings

We analyzed Favourite.thesun.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 66 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

favourite.thesun.co.uk performance score

29

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.2 s

20/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.2 s

43/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value10.2 s

8/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,630 ms

1/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.009

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value29.2 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

favourite.thesun.co.uk

66 ms

normalize.css

19 ms

jquery-ui-1.10.4.custom.min.css

20 ms

widgets.opta.css

380 ms

main.css

45 ms

Our browser made a total of 117 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 34% of them (40 requests) were addressed to the original Favourite.thesun.co.uk, 46% (54 requests) were made to Img.thesun.co.uk and 4% (5 requests) were made to Pbs.twimg.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (380 ms) relates to the external source Widget.cloud.opta.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 283.4 kB (16%)

Content Size

1.8 MB

After Optimization

1.5 MB

In fact, the total size of Favourite.thesun.co.uk main page is 1.8 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. Images take 1.5 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 95.1 kB

  • Original 113.9 kB
  • After minification 100.2 kB
  • After compression 18.8 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 13.7 kB, which is 12% of the original size. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 95.1 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 51.3 kB

  • Original 1.5 MB
  • After minification 1.4 MB

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. Favourite The Sun images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-68%

Potential reduce by 137.1 kB

  • Original 200.6 kB
  • After minification 177.7 kB
  • After compression 63.5 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 137.1 kB or 68% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 29 (26%)

Requests Now

112

After Optimization

83

The browser has sent 112 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Favourite The Sun. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 18 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

favourite.thesun.co.uk accessibility score

74

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-*] attributes do not match their roles

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best practices

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

favourite.thesun.co.uk 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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

favourite.thesun.co.uk SEO score

90

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 doesn't use 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 Favourite.thesun.co.uk 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 Favourite.thesun.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 description is not detected on the main page of Favourite The Sun. 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: