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Report Summary

  • 82

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    87% of other websites

  • 94

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 83% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    83% of websites

farpost.co.za

Latest Local & International Football News | FARPost

Page Load Speed

2.3 sec in total

First Response

98 ms

Resources Loaded

1.8 sec

Page Rendered

391 ms

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About Website

Click here to check amazing FARPost content for South Africa. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about farpost.co.za

Latest on South African and International soccer news, transfers, match results, stats, fixtures as well as Breaking soccer news.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Farpost.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 98 ms and then it took 2.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 45% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

farpost.co.za performance score

82

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.0 s

83/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.3 s

71/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.3 s

76/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.236

53/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value2.0 s

99/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

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98 ms

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1600 ms

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23 ms

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31 ms

Our browser made a total of 46 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 98% of them (45 requests) were addressed to the original Farpost.co.za, 2% (1 request) were made to Static.cloudflareinsights.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.6 sec) belongs to the original domain Farpost.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 211.8 kB (37%)

Content Size

573.6 kB

After Optimization

361.7 kB

  • HTML
  • Images

In fact, the total size of Farpost.co.za main page is 573.6 kB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 30% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 291.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 211.8 kB

  • Original 281.8 kB
  • After minification 281.7 kB
  • After compression 69.9 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 211.8 kB or 75% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 291.8 kB
  • After minification 291.8 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. FARPost images are well optimized though.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 9 (21%)

Requests Now

43

After Optimization

34

  • Images
  • JavaScript

The browser has sent 43 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of FARPost. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 10 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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98 ms

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1600 ms

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26 ms

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Accessibility Review

farpost.co.za accessibility score

94

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.

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

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

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Best Practices

farpost.co.za best practices score

83

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

farpost.co.za SEO score

93

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

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

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

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

farpost.co.za

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