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Report Summary

  • 98

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    95% of other websites

  • 84

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 56% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 75

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    32% of websites

bnol.co.za

BNOL Group

Page Load Speed

3.6 sec in total

First Response

951 ms

Resources Loaded

2.6 sec

Page Rendered

79 ms

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About Website

Welcome to bnol.co.za homepage info - get ready to check BNOL best content right away, or after learning these important things about bnol.co.za

Business News Online is a group of news websites working out of South Africa. The company is based in Cape Town, with sites that are both regionally and nationally orientated.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Bnol.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 951 ms and then it took 2.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

bnol.co.za performance score

98

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.7 s

91/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.2 s

95/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value2.5 s

97/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value10 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value1.9 s

100/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

bnol.co.za

951 ms

mainstyle.css

328 ms

bnol_logo.gif

645 ms

bnol_home.jpg

648 ms

cbn_small_logo.gif

659 ms

Our browser made a total of 23 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 91% of them (21 requests) were addressed to the original Bnol.co.za, 9% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.3 sec) belongs to the original domain Bnol.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 3.7 kB (7%)

Content Size

50.1 kB

After Optimization

46.4 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Bnol.co.za main page is 50.1 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. Images take 26.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-66%

Potential reduce by 3.4 kB

  • Original 5.1 kB
  • After minification 4.7 kB
  • After compression 1.7 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 3.4 kB or 66% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 95 B

  • Original 26.5 kB
  • After minification 26.4 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. BNOL images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 34 B

  • Original 17.2 kB
  • After minification 17.2 kB
  • After compression 17.1 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

-10%

Potential reduce by 127 B

  • Original 1.2 kB
  • After minification 1.2 kB
  • After compression 1.1 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. Bnol.co.za has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

22

After Optimization

22

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 22 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of BNOL. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Network Requests Diagram

bnol.co.za

bnol.co.za

951 ms

mainstyle.css

mainstyle.css

328 ms

bnol_logo.gif

bnol_logo.gif

645 ms

bnol_home.jpg

bnol_home.jpg

648 ms

cbn_small_logo.gif

cbn_small_logo.gif

659 ms

cbn_info_but.jpg

cbn_info_but.jpg

651 ms

gbn_small_logo.gif

gbn_small_logo.gif

658 ms

gbn_info_but.jpg

gbn_info_but.jpg

666 ms

kbn_small_logo.gif

kbn_small_logo.gif

970 ms

kbn_info_but.jpg

kbn_info_but.jpg

974 ms

mav_small_logo.gif

mav_small_logo.gif

976 ms

mav_info_but.jpg

mav_info_but.jpg

988 ms

linkme_small_logo.gif

linkme_small_logo.gif

987 ms

linkme_info_but.jpg

linkme_info_but.jpg

1001 ms

ga.js

ga.js

12 ms

home_icon.gif

home_icon.gif

968 ms

news_icon.gif

news_icon.gif

971 ms

contact_icon.gif

contact_icon.gif

973 ms

left_shad.gif

left_shad.gif

988 ms

top_shad.gif

top_shad.gif

990 ms

right_shad.gif

right_shad.gif

1007 ms

bottom_shad.gif

bottom_shad.gif

1291 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

11 ms

Accessibility Review

bnol.co.za accessibility score

84

Accessibility Issues

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.

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

Best Practices

bnol.co.za best practices score

67

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

High

Serves images with low resolution

SEO Factors

bnol.co.za SEO score

75

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Bnol.co.za can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Bnol.co.za main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. 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

bnol.co.za

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