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herald.co.ke

Herald | News, Politics, Entertainment, Social Media Trends

Page Load Speed

6.6 sec in total

First Response

2.8 sec

Resources Loaded

3.4 sec

Page Rendered

321 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Herald.co.ke page load time and found that the first response time was 2.8 sec and then it took 3.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 65% of websites can load faster. This domain responded with an error, which can significantly jeopardize Herald.co.ke rating and web reputation

Performance Metrics

herald.co.ke performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

herald.co.ke

2830 ms

main.css

6 ms

cf-icon-browser.png

32 ms

cf-icon-ok.png

11 ms

cf-icon-cloud.png

17 ms

Our browser made a total of 7 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that all of those requests were addressed to Herald.co.ke and no external sources were called. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.8 sec) belongs to the original domain Herald.co.ke.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 5.2 kB (36%)

Content Size

14.4 kB

After Optimization

9.2 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Herald.co.ke main page is 14.4 kB. This result falls within a vast category (top 1 000 000) of heavyweight, probably not optimized, and thus slow loading web pages. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. HTML takes 7.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-73%

Potential reduce by 5.1 kB

  • Original 7.1 kB
  • After minification 6.3 kB
  • After compression 1.9 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 743 B, which is 11% 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 5.1 kB or 73% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 5.2 kB
  • After minification 5.2 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. Herald Co images are well optimized though.

CSS Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 13 B

  • Original 2.2 kB
  • After minification 2.2 kB
  • After compression 2.2 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. Herald.co.ke has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

6

After Optimization

6

  • Images
  • CSS

The browser has sent 6 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Herald Co. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Network Requests Diagram

herald.co.ke

herald.co.ke

2830 ms

main.css

main.css

6 ms

cf-icon-browser.png

cf-icon-browser.png

32 ms

cf-icon-ok.png

cf-icon-ok.png

11 ms

cf-icon-cloud.png

cf-icon-cloud.png

17 ms

cf-icon-server.png

cf-icon-server.png

27 ms

cf-icon-error.png

cf-icon-error.png

19 ms

SEO Factors

herald.co.ke 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 Herald.co.ke 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 Herald.co.ke 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

herald.co.ke

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