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Report Summary

  • 22

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    40% of other websites

  • 86

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 61% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 91

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    70% of websites

subscribers.theage.com.au

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Page Load Speed

2.4 sec in total

First Response

138 ms

Resources Loaded

2 sec

Page Rendered

291 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Subscribers.theage.com.au page load time and found that the first response time was 138 ms and then it took 2.3 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

subscribers.theage.com.au performance score

22

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.8 s

58/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.9 s

6/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value16.0 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value6,560 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.011

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value33.1 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

subscribers.theage.com.au

138 ms

subscriber-centre

405 ms

gpt.js

478 ms

sp.js

42 ms

analytics.js

57 ms

Our browser made a total of 53 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Subscribers.theage.com.au, 51% (27 requests) were made to Static.ffx.io and 28% (15 requests) were made to Theage.com.au. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.1 sec) relates to the external source Static.ffx.io.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 251.8 kB (23%)

Content Size

1.1 MB

After Optimization

856.1 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript

In fact, the total size of Subscribers.theage.com.au main page is 1.1 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. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 533.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 251.6 kB

  • Original 304.3 kB
  • After minification 304.2 kB
  • After compression 52.6 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 251.6 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 270.2 kB
  • After minification 270.2 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. Subscriber S The Age images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 191 B

  • Original 533.5 kB
  • After minification 533.5 kB
  • After compression 533.4 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.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 16 (35%)

Requests Now

46

After Optimization

30

  • Images
  • JavaScript

The browser has sent 46 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Subscriber S The Age. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 17 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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138 ms

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405 ms

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478 ms

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sp.js

42 ms

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57 ms

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894 ms

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77 ms

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42 ms

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72 ms

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42 ms

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41 ms

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745 ms

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Accessibility Review

subscribers.theage.com.au accessibility score

86

Accessibility Issues

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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

subscribers.theage.com.au best practices score

67

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

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

subscribers.theage.com.au 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

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Subscribers.theage.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 Subscribers.theage.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

subscribers.theage.com.au

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