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eyewitnessnews.co.za

Eyewitness News | EWN

Page Load Speed

10.9 sec in total

First Response

618 ms

Resources Loaded

9.3 sec

Page Rendered

906 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Eyewitnessnews.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 618 ms and then it took 10.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 90% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

eyewitnessnews.co.za performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

eyewitnessnews.co.za

618 ms

ewn.co.za

1145 ms

modernizr.js;waaf7f454813995415

480 ms

js

94 ms

GTEIE9_min_D971C67FA0B7DF9367174CAB96CDB4E6.css;wa2bd67dfaadfa2438

988 ms

Our browser made a total of 190 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Eyewitnessnews.co.za, 63% (119 requests) were made to Ewn.co.za and 5% (10 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.1 sec) relates to the external source Ewn.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 736.6 kB (36%)

Content Size

2.1 MB

After Optimization

1.3 MB

In fact, the total size of Eyewitnessnews.co.za main page is 2.1 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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 152.6 kB

  • Original 183.7 kB
  • After minification 154.2 kB
  • After compression 31.1 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 29.5 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 152.6 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 33.5 kB

  • Original 1.1 MB
  • After minification 1.0 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. Eyewitness News images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-65%

Potential reduce by 397.0 kB

  • Original 612.8 kB
  • After minification 601.0 kB
  • After compression 215.8 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 397.0 kB or 65% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 153.5 kB

  • Original 185.3 kB
  • After minification 185.1 kB
  • After compression 31.8 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. Eyewitnessnews.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 153.5 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 53 (30%)

Requests Now

176

After Optimization

123

The browser has sent 176 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Eyewitness 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 35 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 9 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

eyewitnessnews.co.za 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 Eyewitnessnews.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 Eyewitnessnews.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 Eyewitness News. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: