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Report Summary

  • 15

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    27% of other websites

  • 82

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 52% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 99

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    93% of websites

bulawayo24.com

Bulawayo24 News - Skyes! "it makes perfect sense"

Page Load Speed

42.9 sec in total

First Response

220 ms

Resources Loaded

41.4 sec

Page Rendered

1.3 sec

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Bulawayo24.com page load time and found that the first response time was 220 ms and then it took 42.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is an excellent result, as only a small number of websites can load faster. Unfortunately, there were 2 request timeouts, which can generally increase the web page load time, as the browser stays idle while waiting for website response.

Performance Metrics

bulawayo24.com performance score

15

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value14.8 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value14.8 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value31.9 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value4,080 ms

1/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.013

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value28.4 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

bulawayo24.com

220 ms

bulawayo24.com

8604 ms

bootstrap.min.css

45 ms

system.css.css

19737 ms

ads.css

19737 ms

Our browser made a total of 143 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 3% of them (5 requests) were addressed to the original Bulawayo24.com, 39% (56 requests) were made to Img.bulawayo24.com and 9% (13 requests) were made to Tpc.googlesyndication.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (19.7 sec) relates to the external source Css.bulawayo24.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 283.6 kB (22%)

Content Size

1.3 MB

After Optimization

1.0 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript

In fact, the total size of Bulawayo24.com main page is 1.3 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. Javascripts take 628.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 116.7 kB

  • Original 140.1 kB
  • After minification 131.5 kB
  • After compression 23.4 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 116.7 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 12.0 kB

  • Original 531.0 kB
  • After minification 519.0 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. Bulawayo24 images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-25%

Potential reduce by 154.9 kB

  • Original 628.9 kB
  • After minification 628.9 kB
  • After compression 474.0 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 154.9 kB or 25% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 40 (31%)

Requests Now

127

After Optimization

87

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 127 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Bulawayo24. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 25 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 8 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

bulawayo24.com accessibility score

82

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.

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

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

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

The document uses <meta http-equiv="refresh">

Best Practices

bulawayo24.com best practices score

67

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

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

bulawayo24.com SEO score

99

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

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 Bulawayo24.com 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 Bulawayo24.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

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of Bulawayo24. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: