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Report Summary

  • 34

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    54% of other websites

  • 90

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 75% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 89

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    67% of websites

thepost.uk.com

Cornish & Devon Post - local news at the heart of the community

Page Load Speed

11.1 sec in total

First Response

3.4 sec

Resources Loaded

6.7 sec

Page Rendered

985 ms

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About Website

Welcome to thepost.uk.com homepage info - get ready to check The Post best content right away, or after learning these important things about thepost.uk.com

Latest news, sport and what’s on in Cornwall, North and West Devon and your local area.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Thepost.uk.com page load time and found that the first response time was 3.4 sec and then it took 7.7 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

thepost.uk.com performance score

34

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.6 s

65/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.7 s

17/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.6 s

38/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,640 ms

12/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value16.0 s

6/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.thepost.uk.com

3390 ms

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324 ms

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410 ms

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358 ms

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532 ms

Our browser made a total of 70 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 81% of them (57 requests) were addressed to the original Thepost.uk.com, 4% (3 requests) were made to Farnhamherald.com and 3% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (3.4 sec) belongs to the original domain Thepost.uk.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 186.6 kB (8%)

Content Size

2.4 MB

After Optimization

2.2 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript

In fact, the total size of Thepost.uk.com main page is 2.4 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 2.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 105.7 kB

  • Original 129.3 kB
  • After minification 128.2 kB
  • After compression 23.6 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 105.7 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 80.8 kB

  • Original 2.2 MB
  • After minification 2.2 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. The Post images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 73 B

  • Original 38.8 kB
  • After minification 38.8 kB
  • After compression 38.7 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 31 (50%)

Requests Now

62

After Optimization

31

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 62 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of The Post. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 32 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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Accessibility Review

thepost.uk.com accessibility score

90

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

button, link, and menuitem elements do not have accessible names.

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.

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

thepost.uk.com best practices score

92

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

thepost.uk.com SEO score

89

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Thepost.uk.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 Thepost.uk.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

thepost.uk.com

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