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Report Summary

  • 96

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    94% of other websites

  • 88

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 68% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 55

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    20% of websites

read.org.za

Page Load Speed

2 sec in total

First Response

880 ms

Resources Loaded

1 sec

Page Rendered

68 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Read.org.za page load time and found that the first response time was 880 ms and then it took 1.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 20% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

read.org.za performance score

96

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.3 s

76/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.3 s

94/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value2.8 s

96/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value2.3 s

99/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

read.org.za

880 ms

trianglify.min.js

32 ms

Our browser made a total of 2 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 50% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Read.org.za, 50% (1 request) were made to Cdnjs.cloudflare.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (880 ms) belongs to the original domain Read.org.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 932.4 kB (38%)

Content Size

2.5 MB

After Optimization

1.5 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Read.org.za main page is 2.5 MB. This result falls within the top 5000 of lightweight and thus fast loading web pages. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-61%

Potential reduce by 1.4 kB

  • Original 2.3 kB
  • After minification 2.3 kB
  • After compression 889 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 1.4 kB or 61% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 108.5 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. Read images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-68%

Potential reduce by 259.7 kB

  • Original 381.9 kB
  • After minification 373.5 kB
  • After compression 122.3 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 259.7 kB or 68% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-88%

Potential reduce by 562.8 kB

  • Original 638.2 kB
  • After minification 571.4 kB
  • After compression 75.4 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. Read.org.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 562.8 kB or 88% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

1

After Optimization

1

  • JavaScript

The browser has sent 1 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Read. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

read.org.za accessibility score

88

Accessibility Issues

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

Document doesn't have a <title> element

Best Practices

read.org.za best practices score

75

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

SEO Factors

read.org.za SEO score

55

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

Document doesn't have a <title> element

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    N/A

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    N/A

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Read.org.za can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Unfortunately we cannot identify language used on the page (probably there is a mix of languages, too little text or something else), while the claimed language is English. Our system also found out that Read.org.za main page’s claimed encoding is . Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

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