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Report Summary

  • 23

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    42% of other websites

  • 81

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 52% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 99

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    93% of websites

thecnj.com

Homepage | Camden New Journal

Page Load Speed

3.6 sec in total

First Response

534 ms

Resources Loaded

2.9 sec

Page Rendered

179 ms

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About Website

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Provides local news from the Camden, Islington and Westminster areas.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Thecnj.com page load time and found that the first response time was 534 ms and then it took 3.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 55% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

thecnj.com performance score

23

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.8 s

11/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.0 s

6/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.9 s

15/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,020 ms

7/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.009

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value11.1 s

20/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

thecnj.com

534 ms

cnjmain.css

293 ms

livebookings.js

344 ms

jsfunctions.js

233 ms

urchin.js

9 ms

Our browser made a total of 38 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 66% of them (25 requests) were addressed to the original Thecnj.com, 11% (4 requests) were made to Web.checkm8.com and 8% (3 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.6 sec) relates to the external source Ticketswitch.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 46.6 kB (45%)

Content Size

103.9 kB

After Optimization

57.3 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Thecnj.com main page is 103.9 kB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 15% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 71.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 19.3 kB

  • Original 23.2 kB
  • After minification 18.0 kB
  • After compression 3.8 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 5.2 kB, which is 22% 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 19.3 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 9 B
  • After minification 9 B

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. Thecnj images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-27%

Potential reduce by 19.4 kB

  • Original 71.7 kB
  • After minification 67.4 kB
  • After compression 52.2 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 19.4 kB or 27% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 7.9 kB

  • Original 9.1 kB
  • After minification 7.7 kB
  • After compression 1.2 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. Thecnj.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 7.9 kB or 86% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 20 (61%)

Requests Now

33

After Optimization

13

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 33 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Thecnj. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 8 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

thecnj.com

thecnj.com

534 ms

cnjmain.css

cnjmain.css

293 ms

livebookings.js

livebookings.js

344 ms

jsfunctions.js

jsfunctions.js

233 ms

urchin.js

urchin.js

9 ms

cm8adam_1_call.js

cm8adam_1_call.js

28 ms

LBDirectDeploy.js

LBDirectDeploy.js

161 ms

ga.js

ga.js

13 ms

logo.gif

logo.gif

113 ms

banner-flexi-ts_logo.jpg

banner-flexi-ts_logo.jpg

327 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

8 ms

spacer.gif

spacer.gif

131 ms

cnews_right_ad1.gif

cnews_right_ad1.gif

223 ms

cnews_right_ad2.gif

cnews_right_ad2.gif

188 ms

cnews_right_ad3.gif

cnews_right_ad3.gif

184 ms

cnews_right_ad4.gif

cnews_right_ad4.gif

196 ms

cnews_right_ad5.gif

cnews_right_ad5.gif

204 ms

cnews_right_ad6.gif

cnews_right_ad6.gif

230 ms

right_ad_spacer.jpg

right_ad_spacer.jpg

461 ms

up.gif

up.gif

293 ms

detect

detect

18 ms

browserDataDetect.js

browserDataDetect.js

19 ms

detected

detected

20 ms

bglightbluebar3.gif

bglightbluebar3.gif

250 ms

banner-flexi-search_bg.jpg

banner-flexi-search_bg.jpg

396 ms

purpletop.gif

purpletop.gif

245 ms

normalbut60.gif

normalbut60.gif

241 ms

orangetop.gif

orangetop.gif

263 ms

normalbut180.gif

normalbut180.gif

306 ms

bluetop.gif

bluetop.gif

355 ms

normalbut.gif

normalbut.gif

344 ms

greentop.gif

greentop.gif

346 ms

normalbut300.gif

normalbut300.gif

366 ms

yellowtop.gif

yellowtop.gif

399 ms

normalbut240b.gif

normalbut240b.gif

446 ms

navytop.gif

navytop.gif

446 ms

banner-flexi-ts_logo.jpg

banner-flexi-ts_logo.jpg

1315 ms

banner-flexi-search_bg.jpg

banner-flexi-search_bg.jpg

1561 ms

Accessibility Review

thecnj.com accessibility score

81

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 IDs are not unique

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

Best Practices

thecnj.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

General

Impact

Issue

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

thecnj.com SEO score

99

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 uses legible font sizes

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Thecnj.com 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 Thecnj.com main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

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