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Report Summary

  • 45

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    64% of other websites

  • 52

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 21% of websites

  • 50

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    19% of websites

  • 58

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    21% of websites

greateralextoday.co.za

Greater Alex Today Newspaper - We Lead Others Follow - Home

Page Load Speed

6.2 sec in total

First Response

754 ms

Resources Loaded

5.1 sec

Page Rendered

320 ms

About Website

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The Greater Alex Today Newspaper is a newspaper focusing on community affairs in the Johannesburg area.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Greateralextoday.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 754 ms and then it took 5.4 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

greateralextoday.co.za performance score

45

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.0 s

84/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value18.0 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value10.5 s

7/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value360 ms

72/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.101

89/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value15.9 s

6/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

greateralextoday.co.za

754 ms

style.css

206 ms

jquery.min.js

310 ms

jquery.innerfade.js

208 ms

TypingText.js

212 ms

Our browser made a total of 247 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 87% of them (214 requests) were addressed to the original Greateralextoday.co.za, 7% (18 requests) were made to Platform.twitter.com and 4% (9 requests) were made to Exchangeratewidget.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1 sec) belongs to the original domain Greateralextoday.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 101.6 kB (0%)

Content Size

23.6 MB

After Optimization

23.5 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Greateralextoday.co.za main page is 23.6 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. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Images take 23.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 90.6 kB

  • Original 107.1 kB
  • After minification 95.9 kB
  • After compression 16.4 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 90.6 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 6.6 kB

  • Original 23.4 MB
  • After minification 23.4 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. Greater Alex Today images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 2.3 kB

  • Original 92.1 kB
  • After minification 92.1 kB
  • After compression 89.8 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

-23%

Potential reduce by 2.0 kB

  • Original 8.5 kB
  • After minification 8.5 kB
  • After compression 6.5 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. Greateralextoday.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 2.0 kB or 23% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 23 (10%)

Requests Now

241

After Optimization

218

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 241 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Greater Alex Today. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 24 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

greateralextoday.co.za accessibility score

52

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

greateralextoday.co.za best practices score

50

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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

greateralextoday.co.za SEO score

58

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

Links do not have descriptive text

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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 Greateralextoday.co.za 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 Greateralextoday.co.za 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 description is not detected on the main page of Greater Alex Today. 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: