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Report Summary

  • 23

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    42% of other websites

  • 96

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 88% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    83% of websites

citypress.co.za

City Press

Page Load Speed

4.1 sec in total

First Response

87 ms

Resources Loaded

2.8 sec

Page Rendered

1.1 sec

citypress.co.za screenshot

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Citypress.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 87 ms and then it took 4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 65% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

citypress.co.za performance score

23

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.0 s

84/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value11.9 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.2 s

13/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value8,520 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.108

87/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value29.9 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

citypress.co.za

87 ms

citypress

1314 ms

style.min.css

47 ms

gpt.js

117 ms

htmx.min.js

63 ms

Our browser made a total of 131 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Citypress.co.za, 41% (54 requests) were made to Cdn.24.co.za and 25% (33 requests) were made to News24.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.3 sec) relates to the external source News24.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 420.0 kB (11%)

Content Size

3.8 MB

After Optimization

3.3 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Citypress.co.za main page is 3.8 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 2.9 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 273.0 kB

  • Original 319.5 kB
  • After minification 267.2 kB
  • After compression 46.5 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 52.3 kB, which is 16% 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 273.0 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 61.0 kB

  • Original 2.9 MB
  • After minification 2.8 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. City Press images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-17%

Potential reduce by 83.8 kB

  • Original 495.0 kB
  • After minification 495.0 kB
  • After compression 411.2 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 83.8 kB or 17% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 2.2 kB

  • Original 52.4 kB
  • After minification 50.4 kB
  • After compression 50.2 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. Citypress.co.za has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 37 (30%)

Requests Now

124

After Optimization

87

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 124 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of City Press. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 30 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 9 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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Accessibility Review

citypress.co.za accessibility score

96

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.

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

citypress.co.za best practices score

75

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

High

Requests the geolocation permission on page load

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

citypress.co.za SEO score

93

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

robots.txt is not valid

Mobile Friendly

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/).

Impact

Issue

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 Citypress.co.za 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 Citypress.co.za 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

citypress.co.za

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of City Press. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: