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southafricanewstoday.net

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Page Load Speed

7.3 sec in total

First Response

276 ms

Resources Loaded

6.4 sec

Page Rendered

576 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Southafricanewstoday.net page load time and found that the first response time was 276 ms and then it took 7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 80% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

southafricanewstoday.net performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

southafricanewstoday.net

276 ms

southafricanewstoday.net

932 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

116 ms

style.min.css

211 ms

css

114 ms

Our browser made a total of 74 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 34% of them (25 requests) were addressed to the original Southafricanewstoday.net, 15% (11 requests) were made to Googleads.g.doubleclick.net and 9% (7 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2 sec) relates to the external source Googleads.g.doubleclick.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 192.6 kB (39%)

Content Size

494.7 kB

After Optimization

302.2 kB

In fact, the total size of Southafricanewstoday.net main page is 494.7 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. 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. Javascripts take 202.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 103.8 kB

  • Original 121.9 kB
  • After minification 119.2 kB
  • After compression 18.1 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 103.8 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-15%

Potential reduce by 790 B

  • Original 5.2 kB
  • After minification 4.4 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. Obviously, SOUTH AFRICA NEWS Today needs image optimization as it can save up to 790 B or 15% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-24%

Potential reduce by 48.2 kB

  • Original 202.0 kB
  • After minification 202.0 kB
  • After compression 153.8 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 48.2 kB or 24% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-24%

Potential reduce by 39.8 kB

  • Original 165.7 kB
  • After minification 165.7 kB
  • After compression 125.9 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. Southafricanewstoday.net needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 39.8 kB or 24% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 43 (68%)

Requests Now

63

After Optimization

20

The browser has sent 63 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of SOUTH AFRICA NEWS 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 36 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 9 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

southafricanewstoday.net SEO score

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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 Southafricanewstoday.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 Southafricanewstoday.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 data is detected on the main page of PARSED_DOMAIN, but there is no image specified in description. It would be a good idea for the website admin to select a nice image that can properly represent the website in Open Graph data, otherwise the first found image will be taken for this purpose and social media information block will look like this: