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homegrown.24.com

News24 | South Africa's leading source of breaking news, opinion and insight

Page Load Speed

2.2 sec in total

First Response

711 ms

Resources Loaded

1.4 sec

Page Rendered

104 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Homegrown.24.com page load time and found that the first response time was 711 ms and then it took 1.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 30% of websites can load faster. This domain responded with an error, which can significantly jeopardize Homegrown.24.com rating and web reputation

Performance Metrics

homegrown.24.com performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

homegrown.24.com

711 ms

modernizr-2.6.2.min.js

443 ms

reset.css

446 ms

css

23 ms

styles.css

444 ms

Our browser made a total of 7 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 57% of them (4 requests) were addressed to the original Homegrown.24.com, 29% (2 requests) were made to Cdn.24.co.za and 14% (1 request) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (711 ms) belongs to the original domain Homegrown.24.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 2.6 kB (59%)

Content Size

4.4 kB

After Optimization

1.8 kB

  • HTML
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Homegrown.24.com main page is 4.4 kB. This result falls within a vast category (top 1 000 000) of heavyweight, probably not optimized, and thus slow loading web pages. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. CSS take 3.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-52%

Potential reduce by 609 B

  • Original 1.2 kB
  • After minification 1.1 kB
  • After compression 568 B

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 609 B or 52% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-62%

Potential reduce by 2.0 kB

  • Original 3.2 kB
  • After minification 2.5 kB
  • After compression 1.2 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. Homegrown.24.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 2.0 kB or 62% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

3

After Optimization

3

  • CSS

The browser has sent 3 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Homegrown 24. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Network Requests Diagram

homegrown.24.com

homegrown.24.com

711 ms

modernizr-2.6.2.min.js

modernizr-2.6.2.min.js

443 ms

reset.css

reset.css

446 ms

css

css

23 ms

styles.css

styles.css

444 ms

logo.png

logo.png

251 ms

bg.jpg

bg.jpg

263 ms

SEO Factors

homegrown.24.com SEO score

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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 Homegrown.24.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 Homegrown.24.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

homegrown.24.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Homegrown 24. 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: