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Report Summary

  • 68

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    80% of other websites

  • 93

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 80% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 77

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    36% of websites

thebirminghampress.com

The Birmingham Press | What's happening in Birmingham and beyond

Page Load Speed

5 sec in total

First Response

56 ms

Resources Loaded

3.9 sec

Page Rendered

1.1 sec

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Key Findings

We analyzed Thebirminghampress.com page load time and found that the first response time was 56 ms 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

thebirminghampress.com performance score

68

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.5 s

96/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.4 s

68/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value2.1 s

99/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value340 ms

74/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.411

24/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value6.4 s

60/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

thebirminghampress.com

56 ms

thebirminghampress.com

44 ms

wp_cat_rss_style.css

20 ms

get

6 ms

navigation.js

90 ms

Our browser made a total of 69 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 72% of them (50 requests) were addressed to the original Thebirminghampress.com, 9% (6 requests) were made to Apis.google.com and 6% (4 requests) were made to C0.wp.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (3.6 sec) belongs to the original domain Thebirminghampress.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 162.2 kB (15%)

Content Size

1.1 MB

After Optimization

900.8 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Thebirminghampress.com 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. 55% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 644.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 112.3 kB

  • Original 133.7 kB
  • After minification 128.4 kB
  • After compression 21.5 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 112.3 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 644.3 kB
  • After minification 644.3 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. The Birmingham Press images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-20%

Potential reduce by 46.8 kB

  • Original 235.4 kB
  • After minification 235.4 kB
  • After compression 188.5 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 46.8 kB or 20% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 3.1 kB

  • Original 49.6 kB
  • After minification 49.1 kB
  • After compression 46.5 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. Thebirminghampress.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 19 (30%)

Requests Now

64

After Optimization

45

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 64 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of The Birmingham Press. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 12 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 9 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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56 ms

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44 ms

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Accessibility Review

thebirminghampress.com accessibility score

93

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

thebirminghampress.com 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

SEO Factors

thebirminghampress.com SEO score

77

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Thebirminghampress.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 Thebirminghampress.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

thebirminghampress.com

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