Access throughhereyes.news24.com. News24 | South Africa's leading source of trusted news, opinion and insight

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.2 s

79/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value13.6 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value11.4 s

5/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value8,800 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.553

13/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value42.2 s

0/100

10%

throughhereyes.news24.com

43 ms

www.news24.com

118 ms

style.min.css

40 ms

gpt.js

228 ms

htmx.min.js

66 ms

Our browser made a total of 167 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Throughhereyes.news24.com, 59% (98 requests) were made to Cdn.24.co.za and 26% (43 requests) were made to News24.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.5 sec) relates to the external source Images.prop24.com.

Content Size

2.4 MB

After Optimization

1.7 MB

In fact, the total size of Throughhereyes.news24.com main page is 2.4 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. 75% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Images take 1.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-88%

Potential reduce by 355.7 kB

Original 405.5 kB
After minification 305.5 kB
After compression 49.8 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 99.9 kB, which is 25% of the original size. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 355.7 kB or 88% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 38.0 kB

Original 1.4 MB
After minification 1.3 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. Throughhereyes News24 images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-56%

Potential reduce by 331.2 kB

Original 594.8 kB
After minification 594.8 kB
After compression 263.6 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 331.2 kB or 56% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 2.2 kB

Original 56.9 kB
After minification 54.9 kB
After compression 54.7 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. Throughhereyes.news24.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Now

162

After Optimization

125

The browser has sent 162 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Throughhereyes News24. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 18 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 14 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.