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Report Summary

  • 47

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    65% of other websites

  • 86

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 61% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    74% of websites

yourindependent.co.uk

Bolton, Bury, Rochdale & Heywood News - By the Your Local Independent Newspaper

Page Load Speed

5.2 sec in total

First Response

279 ms

Resources Loaded

4.3 sec

Page Rendered

608 ms

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About Website

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Welcome to the Your Local Independent, the local newspaper for the Bolton, Bury, Rochdale & Heywood area & surrounding areas.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Yourindependent.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 279 ms and then it took 4.9 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

yourindependent.co.uk performance score

47

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.7 s

5/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value15.8 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.5 s

11/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value170 ms

92/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.012

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value10.1 s

26/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

yourindependent.co.uk

279 ms

www.yourindependent.co.uk

2323 ms

jquery.min.js

28 ms

bootstrap.min.css

43 ms

jquery-ui.js

54 ms

Our browser made a total of 50 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 80% of them (40 requests) were addressed to the original Yourindependent.co.uk, 4% (2 requests) were made to Stackpath.bootstrapcdn.com and 4% (2 requests) were made to Code.jquery.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.3 sec) belongs to the original domain Yourindependent.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 521.9 kB (4%)

Content Size

11.7 MB

After Optimization

11.1 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Yourindependent.co.uk main page is 11.7 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. 50% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 11.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 37.4 kB

  • Original 47.9 kB
  • After minification 44.0 kB
  • After compression 10.6 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. 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 37.4 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 320.3 kB

  • Original 11.4 MB
  • After minification 11.1 MB

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. Your Independent images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-70%

Potential reduce by 132.3 kB

  • Original 189.9 kB
  • After minification 110.9 kB
  • After compression 57.6 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 132.3 kB or 70% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-66%

Potential reduce by 32.0 kB

  • Original 48.7 kB
  • After minification 44.9 kB
  • After compression 16.7 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. Yourindependent.co.uk needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 32.0 kB or 66% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 17 (38%)

Requests Now

45

After Optimization

28

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 45 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Your Independent. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 14 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

yourindependent.co.uk

yourindependent.co.uk

279 ms

www.yourindependent.co.uk

www.yourindependent.co.uk

2323 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

28 ms

bootstrap.min.css

bootstrap.min.css

43 ms

jquery-ui.js

jquery-ui.js

54 ms

jquery-ui.css

jquery-ui.css

22 ms

moment.min.js

moment.min.js

186 ms

modernizr-2.6.2.js

modernizr-2.6.2.js

341 ms

modernizr-2.8.3.js

modernizr-2.8.3.js

360 ms

Site.css

Site.css

194 ms

font-awesome.min.css

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277 ms

js

js

79 ms

ysExit.css

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194 ms

MsAjaxJs

MsAjaxJs

430 ms

respond.js

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290 ms

WebFormsJs

WebFormsJs

443 ms

popper.min.js

popper.min.js

21 ms

bootstrap.min.js

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10 ms

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303 ms

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10 ms

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430 ms

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869 ms

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864 ms

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733 ms

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908 ms

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1033 ms

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Accessibility Review

yourindependent.co.uk accessibility score

86

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

Best Practices

yourindependent.co.uk best practices score

75

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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

yourindependent.co.uk SEO score

92

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

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 Yourindependent.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 Yourindependent.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

yourindependent.co.uk

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