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Report Summary

  • 11

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    24% of other websites

  • 94

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 83% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    74% of websites

westerndailypress.co.uk

Somerset Live - Latest local news, sport & business from Somerset

Page Load Speed

4.6 sec in total

First Response

141 ms

Resources Loaded

864 ms

Page Rendered

3.6 sec

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Key Findings

We analyzed Westerndailypress.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 141 ms and then it took 4.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 70% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

westerndailypress.co.uk performance score

11

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.5 s

36/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value14.7 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value13.7 s

2/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,630 ms

4/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.291

41/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value31.0 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

westerndailypress.co.uk

141 ms

www.somersetlive.co.uk

9 ms

www.somersetlive.co.uk

38 ms

analytics-browser-2.8.1-min.js.gz

62 ms

choice.js

618 ms

Our browser made a total of 47 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Westerndailypress.co.uk, 47% (22 requests) were made to S2-prod.somersetlive.co.uk and 9% (4 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (618 ms) relates to the external source Cmp.inmobi.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 880.2 kB (46%)

Content Size

1.9 MB

After Optimization

1.0 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Westerndailypress.co.uk main page is 1.9 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. HTML takes 1.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 858.8 kB

  • Original 1.0 MB
  • After minification 1.0 MB
  • After compression 150.3 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 858.8 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-10%

Potential reduce by 3.5 kB

  • Original 35.7 kB
  • After minification 32.2 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. Westerndailypress images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 16.9 kB

  • Original 833.2 kB
  • After minification 833.2 kB
  • After compression 816.2 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

-2%

Potential reduce by 1.0 kB

  • Original 47.0 kB
  • After minification 47.0 kB
  • After compression 46.0 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. Westerndailypress.co.uk has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 29 (76%)

Requests Now

38

After Optimization

9

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 38 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Westerndailypress. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 21 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 10 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

westerndailypress.co.uk

westerndailypress.co.uk

141 ms

www.somersetlive.co.uk

www.somersetlive.co.uk

9 ms

www.somersetlive.co.uk

www.somersetlive.co.uk

38 ms

analytics-browser-2.8.1-min.js.gz

analytics-browser-2.8.1-min.js.gz

62 ms

choice.js

choice.js

618 ms

section-base.css

section-base.css

66 ms

chameleon-static-html.css

chameleon-static-html.css

75 ms

marwood-extended.css

marwood-extended.css

76 ms

brand-extended-clipper.cb7a7dad3a675d45.css

brand-extended-clipper.cb7a7dad3a675d45.css

74 ms

css2

css2

152 ms

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f4da43f653def4d92323af178197181349cb8842e02c1bc9f77497adaaecf7f0

166 ms

s.min.js

s.min.js

145 ms

runForceReconsent.min.js

runForceReconsent.min.js

148 ms

iasPET.1.js

iasPET.1.js

154 ms

tags.min.js

tags.min.js

162 ms

chartbeat_mab.js

chartbeat_mab.js

152 ms

section.min.js

section.min.js

155 ms

partner.min.js

partner.min.js

156 ms

chameleon-static-html.min.js

chameleon-static-html.min.js

156 ms

section.min.js

section.min.js

155 ms

withnail.min.js

withnail.min.js

169 ms

smile-web.min.js

smile-web.min.js

160 ms

style.css

style.css

173 ms

index.js

index.js

173 ms

auth-ui.min.js

auth-ui.min.js

182 ms

analytics.js.gz

analytics.js.gz

162 ms

ebx.js

ebx.js

329 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

266 ms

apstag.js

apstag.js

100 ms

analytics.config.json

analytics.config.json

413 ms

0_Somerset-Live.png

0_Somerset-Live.png

345 ms

transparent.png

transparent.png

59 ms

section.css

section.css

46 ms

withnail.css

withnail.css

51 ms

section.css

section.css

52 ms

transparent-wide.png

transparent-wide.png

45 ms

logo-somersetlive.png

logo-somersetlive.png

56 ms

outside-black.svg

outside-black.svg

549 ms

css2

css2

131 ms

ipso.a49db49dfe703ca7.svg

ipso.a49db49dfe703ca7.svg

67 ms

memSYaGs126MiZpBA-UvWbX2vVnXBbObj2OVZyOOSr4dVJWUgsjZ0C4n.ttf

memSYaGs126MiZpBA-UvWbX2vVnXBbObj2OVZyOOSr4dVJWUgsjZ0C4n.ttf

76 ms

memSYaGs126MiZpBA-UvWbX2vVnXBbObj2OVZyOOSr4dVJWUgsg-1y4n.ttf

memSYaGs126MiZpBA-UvWbX2vVnXBbObj2OVZyOOSr4dVJWUgsg-1y4n.ttf

110 ms

icomoon.00495dd3fc67aad5.woff

icomoon.00495dd3fc67aad5.woff

42 ms

E21x_cfngu7HiRpPX3ZpNE4kY5zKSPmJXkF0VDD2RApATL3s.ttf

E21x_cfngu7HiRpPX3ZpNE4kY5zKSPmJXkF0VDD2RApATL3s.ttf

204 ms

E21x_cfngu7HiRpPX3ZpNE4kY5zKSPmJXkF0VDD2RAqnS73s.ttf

E21x_cfngu7HiRpPX3ZpNE4kY5zKSPmJXkF0VDD2RAqnS73s.ttf

111 ms

du_elections_ge_totalizer_latest.min.js

du_elections_ge_totalizer_latest.min.js

85 ms

cmp2-polyfilled.js

cmp2-polyfilled.js

18 ms

Accessibility Review

westerndailypress.co.uk accessibility score

94

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

westerndailypress.co.uk best practices score

75

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

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

westerndailypress.co.uk SEO score

92

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

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

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

westerndailypress.co.uk

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