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Report Summary

  • 19

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    36% of other websites

  • 96

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 89% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    95% of websites

fin24.com

Business | News24

Page Load Speed

6.4 sec in total

First Response

718 ms

Resources Loaded

5.1 sec

Page Rendered

581 ms

fin24.com screenshot

About Website

Visit fin24.com now to see the best up-to-date Fin 24 content for South Africa and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about fin24.com

South Africa’s premier site for breaking business and finance news, stock market data, economic analysis, personal finance and investment information.

Visit fin24.com

Key Findings

We analyzed Fin24.com page load time and found that the first response time was 718 ms and then it took 5.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 75% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

fin24.com performance score

19

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.5 s

35/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.4 s

2/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.5 s

12/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,900 ms

1/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.103

89/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value16.7 s

5/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

fin24.com

718 ms

www.fin24.com

1639 ms

clear.css

491 ms

screenCore.min.css

1582 ms

jquery.fancybox.css

32 ms

Our browser made a total of 123 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 33% of them (40 requests) were addressed to the original Fin24.com, 33% (40 requests) were made to Cdn.24.co.za and 8% (10 requests) were made to Scripts.24.co.za. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.6 sec) belongs to the original domain Fin24.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.9 MB (47%)

Content Size

4.0 MB

After Optimization

2.1 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Fin24.com main page is 4.0 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. 55% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.7 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 259.3 kB

  • Original 317.9 kB
  • After minification 289.1 kB
  • After compression 58.6 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 259.3 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-9%

Potential reduce by 158.0 kB

  • Original 1.7 MB
  • After minification 1.6 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. Fin 24 images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-68%

Potential reduce by 833.3 kB

  • Original 1.2 MB
  • After minification 1.2 MB
  • After compression 389.7 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 833.3 kB or 68% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 605.9 kB

  • Original 718.7 kB
  • After minification 627.2 kB
  • After compression 112.8 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. Fin24.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 605.9 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 56 (46%)

Requests Now

121

After Optimization

65

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 121 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Fin 24. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 35 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 8 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

fin24.com

fin24.com

718 ms

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1639 ms

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Accessibility Review

fin24.com accessibility score

96

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

Best Practices

fin24.com 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

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

fin24.com SEO score

100

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Fin24.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Fin24.com 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

fin24.com

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of Fin 24. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: