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Report Summary

  • 29

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    49% of other websites

  • 80

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 49% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    83% of websites

theoldie.co.uk

The Oldie Homepage - The Oldie

Page Load Speed

2.8 sec in total

First Response

221 ms

Resources Loaded

2.2 sec

Page Rendered

395 ms

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About Website

Click here to check amazing The Oldie content for United Kingdom. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about theoldie.co.uk

The idea for the Oldie was cooked up 25 years ago by its founding editor, Richard Ingrams, and his much-lamented successor, the late Alexander Chancellor. Their aim was to create a free-thinking, funn...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Theoldie.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 221 ms and then it took 2.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

theoldie.co.uk performance score

29

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.9 s

54/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value13.5 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.6 s

37/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value760 ms

38/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.261

47/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value12.6 s

14/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

theoldie.co.uk

221 ms

theoldie.co.uk

655 ms

styles.css

82 ms

css

33 ms

head.load.min.js

161 ms

Our browser made a total of 57 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 56% of them (32 requests) were addressed to the original Theoldie.co.uk, 11% (6 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com and 7% (4 requests) were made to Platform.twitter.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.1 sec) belongs to the original domain Theoldie.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 357.2 kB (16%)

Content Size

2.2 MB

After Optimization

1.9 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Theoldie.co.uk 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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 2.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 44.3 kB

  • Original 55.4 kB
  • After minification 42.7 kB
  • After compression 11.2 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 12.7 kB, which is 23% 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 44.3 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-15%

Potential reduce by 303.8 kB

  • Original 2.1 MB
  • After minification 1.8 MB

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 Oldie needs image optimization as it can save up to 303.8 kB or 15% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-12%

Potential reduce by 9.1 kB

  • Original 77.6 kB
  • After minification 77.6 kB
  • After compression 68.5 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 9.1 kB or 12% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 21 B

  • Original 447 B
  • After minification 447 B
  • After compression 426 B

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. Theoldie.co.uk has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 13 (27%)

Requests Now

49

After Optimization

36

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 49 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of The Oldie. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 14 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

theoldie.co.uk

theoldie.co.uk

221 ms

theoldie.co.uk

theoldie.co.uk

655 ms

styles.css

styles.css

82 ms

css

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33 ms

head.load.min.js

head.load.min.js

161 ms

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559 ms

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67 ms

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114 ms

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57 ms

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453 ms

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159 ms

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211 ms

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183 ms

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1056 ms

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268 ms

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304 ms

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807 ms

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305 ms

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411 ms

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578 ms

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739 ms

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656 ms

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655 ms

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578 ms

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805 ms

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657 ms

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737 ms

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737 ms

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738 ms

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812 ms

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968 ms

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969 ms

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894 ms

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960 ms

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421 ms

widgets.js

widgets.js

298 ms

js

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152 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

195 ms

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220 ms

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249 ms

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171 ms

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296 ms

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59 ms

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56 ms

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56 ms

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75 ms

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168 ms

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63 ms

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143 ms

settings

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176 ms

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22 ms

embeds

embeds

41 ms

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40 ms

Accessibility Review

theoldie.co.uk accessibility score

80

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 input fields do not have accessible names

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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

[id] attributes on active, focusable elements are not unique

Best Practices

theoldie.co.uk 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

SEO Factors

theoldie.co.uk SEO score

93

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

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 Theoldie.co.uk 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 Theoldie.co.uk 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

theoldie.co.uk

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