Report Summary

  • 20

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    37% of other websites

  • 98

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 94% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 99

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    93% of websites

diehoorn.co.za

Die Hoorn - U eie Koerant . Jongste Nuus vanuit Oudtshoorn. Latest News.

Page Load Speed

9.4 sec in total

First Response

1 sec

Resources Loaded

7.6 sec

Page Rendered

815 ms

diehoorn.co.za screenshot

About Website

Welcome to diehoorn.co.za homepage info - get ready to check Die Hoorn best content for South Africa right away, or after learning these important things about diehoorn.co.za

Jongste nuus vanuit Oudtshoorn en die Klein Karoo. Ons dek Ladismith, Calitzdorp, De Rust en Prins Albert. Onafhanklike gemeenskapskoerant. Kliek deur!

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Key Findings

We analyzed Diehoorn.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 1 sec and then it took 8.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 85% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

diehoorn.co.za performance score

20

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.8 s

1/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value10.7 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value17.9 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,400 ms

16/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.055

98/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value23.6 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

diehoorn.co.za

1022 ms

www.diehoorn.com

2591 ms

a4rt0.css

1069 ms

1x4af.css

1071 ms

a4rt0.css

1429 ms

Our browser made a total of 103 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Diehoorn.co.za, 38% (39 requests) were made to Diehoorn.com and 33% (34 requests) were made to Static.xx.fbcdn.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.8 sec) relates to the external source Diehoorn.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 231.5 kB (10%)

Content Size

2.3 MB

After Optimization

2.1 MB

In fact, the total size of Diehoorn.co.za main page is 2.3 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. 80% 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 1.7 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 184.4 kB

  • Original 241.2 kB
  • After minification 235.9 kB
  • After compression 56.7 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 184.4 kB or 76% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 44.4 kB

  • Original 1.7 MB
  • After minification 1.6 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. Die Hoorn images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 1.6 kB

  • Original 371.4 kB
  • After minification 371.4 kB
  • After compression 369.8 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 1.1 kB

  • Original 73.3 kB
  • After minification 73.3 kB
  • After compression 72.2 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. Diehoorn.co.za has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 56 (58%)

Requests Now

97

After Optimization

41

The browser has sent 97 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Die Hoorn. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 44 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 14 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

diehoorn.co.za accessibility score

98

Accessibility Issues

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

diehoorn.co.za best practices score

75

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

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

diehoorn.co.za SEO score

99

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    AF

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Diehoorn.co.za can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that Afrikaans is used on the page, and it does not match the claimed English language. Our system also found out that Diehoorn.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

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