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Report Summary

  • 28

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    47% of other websites

  • 74

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 40% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    74% of websites

timaruherald.co.nz

Timaru Herald: Timaru/South Canterbury news | Stuff.co.nz

Page Load Speed

150 ms in total

First Response

24 ms

Resources Loaded

126 ms

Page Rendered

0 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Timaruherald.co.nz page load time and found that the first response time was 24 ms and then it took 126 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is an excellent result, as only a small number of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

timaruherald.co.nz performance score

28

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.9 s

25/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.3 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.6 s

71/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,720 ms

10/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.001

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value17.6 s

4/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

24 ms

fonts.css

4 ms

styles.e6bf2dd282853401.css

15 ms

main.9da0d72cd66e461f.css

8 ms

embed.js

54 ms

Our browser made a total of 15 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Timaruherald.co.nz, 7% (1 request) were made to Stuff.coral.coralproject.net and 7% (1 request) were made to Widgets.outbrain.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (72 ms) relates to the external source Widgets.outbrain.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 2.6 kB (1%)

Content Size

471.3 kB

After Optimization

468.7 kB

  • HTML
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Timaruherald.co.nz main page is 471.3 kB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 55% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 428.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-61%

Potential reduce by 1.7 kB

  • Original 2.8 kB
  • After minification 2.6 kB
  • After compression 1.1 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 1.7 kB or 61% of the original size.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 407 B

  • Original 428.9 kB
  • After minification 428.9 kB
  • After compression 428.5 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 483 B

  • Original 39.5 kB
  • After minification 39.5 kB
  • After compression 39.0 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. Timaruherald.co.nz has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 12 (86%)

Requests Now

14

After Optimization

2

  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 14 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Timaru Herald. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 5 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 9 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

24 ms

fonts.css

fonts.css

4 ms

styles.e6bf2dd282853401.css

styles.e6bf2dd282853401.css

15 ms

main.9da0d72cd66e461f.css

main.9da0d72cd66e461f.css

8 ms

embed.js

embed.js

54 ms

outbrain.js

outbrain.js

72 ms

runtime.d9af5bb16f3fcbbb.js

runtime.d9af5bb16f3fcbbb.js

16 ms

styles.c4d1498370482049.js

styles.c4d1498370482049.js

15 ms

main.50ec141ab4fe50a1.js

main.50ec141ab4fe50a1.js

22 ms

Stuff-Display.css

Stuff-Display.css

14 ms

Stuff-Sans-Condensed.css

Stuff-Sans-Condensed.css

16 ms

Stuff-Sans-Wide.css

Stuff-Sans-Wide.css

15 ms

Stuff-Sans.css

Stuff-Sans.css

14 ms

Stuff-Text.css

Stuff-Text.css

14 ms

Fjalla-One-Sans.css

Fjalla-One-Sans.css

16 ms

Accessibility Review

timaruherald.co.nz accessibility score

74

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-*] attributes do not match their roles

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

timaruherald.co.nz best practices score

83

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

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

timaruherald.co.nz SEO score

92

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Timaruherald.co.nz 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 Timaruherald.co.nz 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

timaruherald.co.nz

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