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Report Summary

  • 14

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    26% of other websites

  • 83

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 54% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 91

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    70% of websites

thelocalrag.com.au

The Local Rag: The best food, travel & tips to explore regional Australia

Page Load Speed

9.3 sec in total

First Response

503 ms

Resources Loaded

7.6 sec

Page Rendered

1.2 sec

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About Website

Click here to check amazing The Local Rag content. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about thelocalrag.com.au

News moves a little slower in the country, and we're here to bring it to you. Find the best food & drink, accommodation, and more around regional Australia.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Thelocalrag.com.au page load time and found that the first response time was 503 ms and then it took 8.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 85% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

thelocalrag.com.au performance score

14

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.2 s

8/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.6 s

18/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value13.4 s

2/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,660 ms

4/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.278

44/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value19.5 s

2/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

thelocalrag.com.au

503 ms

thelocalrag.com.au

1322 ms

animate.min.css

260 ms

trx_addons_icons.css

517 ms

css2

35 ms

Our browser made a total of 104 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 80% of them (83 requests) were addressed to the original Thelocalrag.com.au, 4% (4 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 4% (4 requests) were made to Googleads.g.doubleclick.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.4 sec) belongs to the original domain Thelocalrag.com.au.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.0 MB (47%)

Content Size

2.2 MB

After Optimization

1.1 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Thelocalrag.com.au main page is 2.2 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. Javascripts take 1.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 189.4 kB

  • Original 221.5 kB
  • After minification 213.4 kB
  • After compression 32.1 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 189.4 kB or 86% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 176 B

  • Original 190.3 kB
  • After minification 190.2 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. The Local Rag images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-33%

Potential reduce by 335.5 kB

  • Original 1.0 MB
  • After minification 1.0 MB
  • After compression 666.8 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 335.5 kB or 33% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-65%

Potential reduce by 478.0 kB

  • Original 737.6 kB
  • After minification 733.7 kB
  • After compression 259.6 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. Thelocalrag.com.au needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 478.0 kB or 65% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 75 (82%)

Requests Now

91

After Optimization

16

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 91 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of The Local Rag. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 38 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 39 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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503 ms

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1322 ms

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Accessibility Review

thelocalrag.com.au accessibility score

83

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-hidden="true"] elements contain focusable descendents

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

High

Some elements have a [tabindex] value greater than 0

Best Practices

thelocalrag.com.au best practices score

67

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

High

Includes front-end JavaScript libraries with known security vulnerabilities

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

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

thelocalrag.com.au SEO score

91

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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 Thelocalrag.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 Thelocalrag.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

thelocalrag.com.au

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