Report Summary

  • 97

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    95% of other websites

  • 88

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 69% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 55

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    20% of websites

Page Load Speed

6.7 sec in total

First Response

324 ms

Resources Loaded

6 sec

Page Rendered

459 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Football24.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 324 ms and then it took 6.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 80% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

football24.co.za performance score

97

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.1 s

82/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.1 s

96/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value2.7 s

96/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value2.1 s

99/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

football24.co.za

324 ms

www.footie.co.za

2417 ms

style.css

189 ms

styles.css

191 ms

polls-css.css

190 ms

Our browser made a total of 107 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Football24.co.za, 53% (57 requests) were made to Footie.co.za and 7% (7 requests) were made to C.betrad.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.7 sec) relates to the external source Footie.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 930.6 kB (62%)

Content Size

1.5 MB

After Optimization

572.7 kB

In fact, the total size of Football24.co.za main page is 1.5 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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 715.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 57.2 kB

  • Original 70.2 kB
  • After minification 66.2 kB
  • After compression 13.0 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 57.2 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-59%

Potential reduce by 422.2 kB

  • Original 715.8 kB
  • After minification 293.6 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. Obviously, Football 24 needs image optimization as it can save up to 422.2 kB or 59% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-60%

Potential reduce by 351.9 kB

  • Original 583.2 kB
  • After minification 562.7 kB
  • After compression 231.3 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 351.9 kB or 60% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-74%

Potential reduce by 99.3 kB

  • Original 134.1 kB
  • After minification 123.1 kB
  • After compression 34.8 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. Football24.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 99.3 kB or 74% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 59 (56%)

Requests Now

105

After Optimization

46

The browser has sent 105 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Football 24. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 33 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 10 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

football24.co.za accessibility score

88

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

Document doesn't have a <title> element

Best Practices

football24.co.za best practices score

75

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

SEO Factors

football24.co.za SEO score

55

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

Document doesn't have a <title> element

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    N/A

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Football24.co.za can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Unfortunately we cannot identify language used on the page (probably there is a mix of languages, too little text or something else) and no language is claimed in <html> or <meta> tags either. Our system also found out that Football24.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 Football 24. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: