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Report Summary

  • 9

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    23% of other websites

  • 75

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 41% of websites

  • 50

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    19% of websites

  • 79

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    40% of websites

m.ecr.co.za

KZN's Number One Radio Station | East Coast Radio

Page Load Speed

5.1 sec in total

First Response

29 ms

Resources Loaded

4 sec

Page Rendered

1.1 sec

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About Website

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

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Key Findings

We analyzed M.ecr.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 29 ms and then it took 5.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 75% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

m.ecr.co.za performance score

9

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.6 s

62/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.7 s

3/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value10.4 s

8/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,810 ms

3/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.795

5/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value33.6 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

m.ecr.co.za

29 ms

www.ecr.co.za

120 ms

js

216 ms

gtm.js

237 ms

gpt.js

236 ms

Our browser made a total of 123 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original M.ecr.co.za, 59% (73 requests) were made to Turntable.kagiso.io and 6% (7 requests) were made to Synchroscript.deliveryengine.adswizz.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (792 ms) relates to the external source P2.iono.fm.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 651.9 kB (12%)

Content Size

5.6 MB

After Optimization

4.9 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of M.ecr.co.za main page is 5.6 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. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Images take 4.9 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 76.4 kB

  • Original 96.7 kB
  • After minification 96.0 kB
  • After compression 20.3 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 76.4 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 394.2 kB

  • Original 4.9 MB
  • After minification 4.5 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. M Ecr images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-37%

Potential reduce by 181.2 kB

  • Original 491.4 kB
  • After minification 487.7 kB
  • After compression 310.3 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 181.2 kB or 37% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 120 B

  • Original 41.8 kB
  • After minification 41.8 kB
  • After compression 41.7 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. M.ecr.co.za has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 47 (40%)

Requests Now

118

After Optimization

71

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 118 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of M Ecr. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 37 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

m.ecr.co.za

m.ecr.co.za

29 ms

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www.ecr.co.za

120 ms

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Accessibility Review

m.ecr.co.za accessibility score

75

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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

Best Practices

m.ecr.co.za best practices score

50

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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

m.ecr.co.za SEO score

79

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

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 M.ecr.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 M.ecr.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

m.ecr.co.za

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