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Report Summary

  • 71

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    81% of other websites

  • 80

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 49% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 91

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    70% of websites

news.howzit.msn.com

Latest local and international news | MSN South Africa

Page Load Speed

893 ms in total

First Response

98 ms

Resources Loaded

681 ms

Page Rendered

114 ms

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed News.howzit.msn.com page load time and found that the first response time was 98 ms and then it took 795 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 15% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

news.howzit.msn.com performance score

71

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.8 s

55/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.0 s

13/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.1 s

80/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value4.0 s

88/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

news.howzit.msn.com

98 ms

news

61 ms

76-715c98-63b61fa3

103 ms

jquery-1.11.1.min.js

85 ms

dapmsn.js

17 ms

Our browser made a total of 16 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 6% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original News.howzit.msn.com, 31% (5 requests) were made to Img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net and 19% (3 requests) were made to Static-news-eus.s-msn.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (288 ms) relates to the external source Otf.msn.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 93.0 kB (51%)

Content Size

181.8 kB

After Optimization

88.8 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript

In fact, the total size of News.howzit.msn.com main page is 181.8 kB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 15% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 121.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-64%

Potential reduce by 10.9 kB

  • Original 17.1 kB
  • After minification 16.1 kB
  • After compression 6.2 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 10.9 kB or 64% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 2.0 kB

  • Original 43.3 kB
  • After minification 41.3 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. News Howzit MSN images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-66%

Potential reduce by 80.1 kB

  • Original 121.4 kB
  • After minification 121.4 kB
  • After compression 41.3 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 80.1 kB or 66% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

14

After Optimization

14

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 14 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of News Howzit MSN. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

news.howzit.msn.com accessibility score

80

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Elements with an ARIA [role] that require children to contain a specific [role] are missing some or all of those required children.

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

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.

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Lists do not contain only <li> elements and script supporting elements (<script> and <template>).

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Some elements have a [tabindex] value greater than 0

Best Practices

news.howzit.msn.com 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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

news.howzit.msn.com SEO score

91

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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 News.howzit.msn.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 News.howzit.msn.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 description is not detected on the main page of News Howzit MSN. 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: