Access southafricanews.net. South Africa News.Net | Authoritative South Africa News Source

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value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.3 s

18/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.8 s

15/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.6 s

37/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value7,910 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.257

48/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value17.3 s

4/100

10%

southafricanews.net

16 ms

www.southafricanews.net

574 ms

foundation.min.css

64 ms

red_style.css

69 ms

font-awesome.css

48 ms

Our browser made a total of 97 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (2 requests) were addressed to the original Southafricanews.net, 38% (37 requests) were made to Cdn.bignewsnetwork.com and 13% (13 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.5 sec) relates to the external source Cdn.bignewsnetwork.com.

Content Size

1.2 MB

After Optimization

1.1 MB

In fact, the total size of Southafricanews.net main page is 1.2 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 786.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 62.3 kB

Original 76.8 kB
After minification 63.6 kB
After compression 14.5 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 13.2 kB, which is 17% 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 62.3 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 19.7 kB

Original 786.1 kB
After minification 766.5 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. South Africa News images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 2.7 kB

Original 269.3 kB
After minification 269.3 kB
After compression 266.6 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 381 B

Original 75.8 kB
After minification 75.8 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. Southafricanews.net has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Now

After Optimization

The browser has sent 81 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of South Africa News. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 17 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Issues

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.

High

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

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

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

These are opportunities to improve the legibility of your content.

High

Background and foreground colors do not have a sufficient contrast ratio.

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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/).

High

Document uses legible font sizes

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 Southafricanews.net 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 Southafricanews.net 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 South Africa News. 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: