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Report Summary

  • 18

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    34% of other websites

  • 94

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 83% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    20% of websites

  • 83

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    46% of websites

financialmail.co.za

Financial Mail - In-depth analysis and opinion on SA business and industry

Page Load Speed

8.5 sec in total

First Response

249 ms

Resources Loaded

7.1 sec

Page Rendered

1.2 sec

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About Website

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

Read the latest edition of the Financial Mail online for in-depth analysis and opinion on South African business and industry. Includes additional features, multimedia, and past editions.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Financialmail.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 249 ms and then it took 8.2 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

financialmail.co.za performance score

18

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.8 s

28/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value26.9 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value17.4 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value5,180 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.006

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value32.2 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

financialmail.co.za

249 ms

2319 ms

gpt.js

134 ms

gtm.js

105 ms

fbevents.js

59 ms

Our browser made a total of 114 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Financialmail.co.za, 32% (36 requests) were made to Businesslive.co.za and 13% (15 requests) were made to Profiledata.co.za. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.3 sec) relates to the external source Businesslive.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 909.2 kB (35%)

Content Size

2.6 MB

After Optimization

1.7 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Financialmail.co.za main page is 2.6 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. 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 1.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 346.7 kB

  • Original 420.8 kB
  • After minification 418.0 kB
  • After compression 74.1 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. 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 346.7 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-10%

Potential reduce by 108.8 kB

  • Original 1.1 MB
  • After minification 986.4 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. Financial Mail images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-42%

Potential reduce by 432.2 kB

  • Original 1.0 MB
  • After minification 1.0 MB
  • After compression 597.2 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 432.2 kB or 42% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-26%

Potential reduce by 21.5 kB

  • Original 82.4 kB
  • After minification 82.4 kB
  • After compression 60.8 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. Financialmail.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 21.5 kB or 26% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 49 (49%)

Requests Now

101

After Optimization

52

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 101 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Financial Mail. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 41 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 10 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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Accessibility Review

financialmail.co.za accessibility score

94

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

[aria-*] attributes do not match their roles

Best Practices

financialmail.co.za best practices score

58

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

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

financialmail.co.za SEO score

83

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 doesn't use legible font sizes

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

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 Financialmail.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 Financialmail.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

financialmail.co.za

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