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Visit thelocal.ch now to see the best up-to-date The Local content for United States and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about thelocal.ch
Latest news, essential insights and practical guides to life in Switzerland from The Local, Europe’s leading independent voice.
Visit thelocal.chWe analyzed Thelocal.ch page load time and found that the first response time was 177 ms and then it took 5.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 75% of websites can load faster.
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Our browser made a total of 300 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 28% of them (84 requests) were addressed to the original Thelocal.ch, 5% (15 requests) were made to Uk-ads.openx.net and 4% (12 requests) were made to Pagead2.googlesyndication.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.3 sec) belongs to the original domain Thelocal.ch.
Page size can be reduced by 2.3 MB (44%)
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In fact, the total size of Thelocal.ch main page is 5.3 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. 80% 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 2.5 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.
Potential reduce by 493.6 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 493.6 kB or 85% of the original size.
Potential reduce by 344.1 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, The Local needs image optimization as it can save up to 344.1 kB or 14% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.
Potential reduce by 1.4 MB
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 1.4 MB or 65% of the original size.
Potential reduce by 81.8 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. Thelocal.ch needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 81.8 kB or 81% of the original size.
Number of requests can be reduced by 147 (53%)
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The browser has sent 276 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of The Local. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 70 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.
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thelocal.ch SEO score
Mobile Friendly
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Document uses legible font sizes
EN
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UTF-8
Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Thelocal.ch 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 Thelocal.ch 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.
thelocal.ch
Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of The Local. 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: