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Report Summary

  • 21

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    39% of other websites

  • 85

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 58% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 91

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    70% of websites

media.watoday.com.au

Breaking News from Perth & Western Australia | WAtoday.com.au

Page Load Speed

4.5 sec in total

First Response

1.1 sec

Resources Loaded

3.1 sec

Page Rendered

281 ms

media.watoday.com.au screenshot

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Media.watoday.com.au page load time and found that the first response time was 1.1 sec and then it took 3.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 60% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

media.watoday.com.au performance score

21

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.0 s

50/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.1 s

2/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value11.5 s

5/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value6,510 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.016

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value35.1 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

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Our browser made a total of 120 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Media.watoday.com.au, 17% (20 requests) were made to Assets.adobedtm.com and 7% (8 requests) were made to Fairfaxstatic.com.au. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.1 sec) relates to the external source Watoday.com.au.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.1 MB (52%)

Content Size

2.0 MB

After Optimization

979.7 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Media.watoday.com.au main page is 2.0 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. 75% 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 1.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 116.3 kB

  • Original 142.1 kB
  • After minification 128.3 kB
  • After compression 25.8 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 116.3 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 23.8 kB

  • Original 524.1 kB
  • After minification 500.2 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. Media WAtoday images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-67%

Potential reduce by 904.1 kB

  • Original 1.4 MB
  • After minification 1.3 MB
  • After compression 451.6 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 904.1 kB or 67% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 7.4 kB

  • Original 9.5 kB
  • After minification 9.4 kB
  • After compression 2.1 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. Media.watoday.com.au needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 7.4 kB or 78% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 47 (41%)

Requests Now

115

After Optimization

68

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 115 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Media WAtoday. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 44 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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Accessibility Review

media.watoday.com.au accessibility score

85

Accessibility Issues

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.

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

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

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Best Practices

media.watoday.com.au 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

media.watoday.com.au SEO score

91

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

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

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 Media.watoday.com.au 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 Media.watoday.com.au 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

media.watoday.com.au

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