Report Summary

  • 16

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    30% of other websites

  • 69

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 35% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    19% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

thisisdorset.net

Bournemouth and Poole News, Sport, Events - Bournemouth Echo

Page Load Speed

7.5 sec in total

First Response

337 ms

Resources Loaded

6 sec

Page Rendered

1.2 sec

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About Website

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News, sport, events, Bournemouth Air Festival, Cherries news and what’s on in Bournemouth, Christchurch, Poole, Dorset and Hampshire.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Thisisdorset.net page load time and found that the first response time was 337 ms and then it took 7.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 80% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

thisisdorset.net performance score

16

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value7.0 s

1/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.7 s

3/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value24.0 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value27,760 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.029

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value57.0 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

thisisdorset.net

337 ms

www.bournemouthecho.co.uk

540 ms

gpt.js

16 ms

amzn_ads.js

11 ms

css

26 ms

Our browser made a total of 407 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Thisisdorset.net, 36% (147 requests) were made to Bournemouthecho.co.uk and 11% (46 requests) were made to Pixel.rubiconproject.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.7 sec) relates to the external source Bournemouthecho.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 2.6 MB (64%)

Content Size

4.1 MB

After Optimization

1.5 MB

In fact, the total size of Thisisdorset.net main page is 4.1 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. 85% 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 2.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 383.6 kB

  • Original 464.2 kB
  • After minification 338.6 kB
  • After compression 80.6 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 125.5 kB, which is 27% 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 383.6 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-37%

Potential reduce by 430.9 kB

  • Original 1.2 MB
  • After minification 728.3 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, Thisisdorset needs image optimization as it can save up to 430.9 kB or 37% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-72%

Potential reduce by 1.6 MB

  • Original 2.2 MB
  • After minification 2.0 MB
  • After compression 632.0 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 1.6 MB or 72% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 178.0 kB

  • Original 216.4 kB
  • After minification 174.6 kB
  • After compression 38.4 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. Thisisdorset.net needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 178.0 kB or 82% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 215 (57%)

Requests Now

375

After Optimization

160

The browser has sent 375 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Thisisdorset. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 93 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 15 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

thisisdorset.net accessibility score

69

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

Elements with an ARIA [role] that require children to contain a specific [role] are missing some or all of those required children.

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

Best practices

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

thisisdorset.net best practices score

58

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

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

thisisdorset.net SEO score

86

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

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 Thisisdorset.net 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 Thisisdorset.net 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

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