Report Summary

  • 7

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    22% of other websites

  • 88

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 69% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

tls.timesonline.co.uk

The Times & The Sunday Times: breaking news & today's latest headlines

Page Load Speed

2.8 sec in total

First Response

392 ms

Resources Loaded

2.2 sec

Page Rendered

256 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Tls.timesonline.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 392 ms and then it took 2.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 45% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

tls.timesonline.co.uk performance score

7

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.9 s

10/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.4 s

9/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value14.0 s

1/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value4,390 ms

1/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.466

19/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value35.5 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

tls.timesonline.co.uk

392 ms

www.the-tls.co.uk

548 ms

321 ms

main.css

21 ms

tls-global.css

20 ms

Our browser made a total of 110 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Tls.timesonline.co.uk, 50% (55 requests) were made to The-tls.co.uk and 9% (10 requests) were made to Tags.tiqcdn.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (548 ms) relates to the external source The-tls.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 878.4 kB (56%)

Content Size

1.6 MB

After Optimization

697.5 kB

In fact, the total size of Tls.timesonline.co.uk main page is 1.6 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. Javascripts take 969.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-74%

Potential reduce by 35.1 kB

  • Original 47.6 kB
  • After minification 46.3 kB
  • After compression 12.5 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 35.1 kB or 74% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 7.7 kB

  • Original 165.9 kB
  • After minification 158.2 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. Tls Times Online images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-68%

Potential reduce by 662.3 kB

  • Original 969.2 kB
  • After minification 926.5 kB
  • After compression 306.9 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 662.3 kB or 68% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-44%

Potential reduce by 173.3 kB

  • Original 393.2 kB
  • After minification 392.5 kB
  • After compression 219.9 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. Tls.timesonline.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 173.3 kB or 44% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 72 (67%)

Requests Now

107

After Optimization

35

The browser has sent 107 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Tls Times Online. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 43 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

tls.timesonline.co.uk accessibility score

88

Accessibility Issues

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Some elements have a [tabindex] value greater than 0

Best Practices

tls.timesonline.co.uk 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

tls.timesonline.co.uk 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 Tls.timesonline.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 Tls.timesonline.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

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Tls Times Online. 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: