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Report Summary

  • 17

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    32% of other websites

  • 84

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 56% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 74

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    31% of websites

engineeringnews.co.za

Engineering News|Real-Economy News

Page Load Speed

8.4 sec in total

First Response

573 ms

Resources Loaded

6.3 sec

Page Rendered

1.5 sec

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About Website

Visit engineeringnews.co.za now to see the best up-to-date Engineering News content for South Africa and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about engineeringnews.co.za

Engineering News Online provides real time news reportage through originated written, video and audio material.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Engineeringnews.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 573 ms and then it took 7.8 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

engineeringnews.co.za performance score

17

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value7.3 s

1/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value11.4 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value14.3 s

1/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,660 ms

11/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.1

89/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value16.7 s

5/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

engineeringnews.co.za

573 ms

www.engineeringnews.co.za

1600 ms

gtm.js

72 ms

bootstrap.css

1315 ms

loader.css

1014 ms

Our browser made a total of 111 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 28% of them (31 requests) were addressed to the original Engineeringnews.co.za, 51% (57 requests) were made to Cisp.cachefly.net and 4% (4 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (3 sec) belongs to the original domain Engineeringnews.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 345.7 kB (14%)

Content Size

2.5 MB

After Optimization

2.1 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Engineeringnews.co.za main page is 2.5 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 2.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 193.0 kB

  • Original 227.9 kB
  • After minification 227.7 kB
  • After compression 34.9 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. 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 193.0 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 152.1 kB

  • Original 2.0 MB
  • After minification 1.8 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. Engineering News images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 136 B

  • Original 238.4 kB
  • After minification 238.4 kB
  • After compression 238.3 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 467 B

  • Original 48.9 kB
  • After minification 48.9 kB
  • After compression 48.4 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. Engineeringnews.co.za has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 37 (35%)

Requests Now

106

After Optimization

69

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 106 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Engineering News. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 16 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 23 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

engineeringnews.co.za

engineeringnews.co.za

573 ms

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1600 ms

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Accessibility Review

engineeringnews.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

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

engineeringnews.co.za best practices score

83

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

High

Includes front-end JavaScript libraries with known security vulnerabilities

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

engineeringnews.co.za SEO score

74

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

High

Links do not have descriptive text

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Crawling and Indexing

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

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Engineeringnews.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 Engineeringnews.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

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