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Visit gadget.co.za now to see the best up-to-date Gadget content for South Africa and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about gadget.co.za
Gadget is South Africa’s longest-running online magazine on consumer technology and general gadgetry that makes our lives both easier and more complicated.
Visit gadget.co.zaWe analyzed Gadget.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 879 ms and then it took 2.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.
gadget.co.za performance score
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Our browser made a total of 120 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 50% of them (60 requests) were addressed to the original Gadget.co.za, 6% (7 requests) were made to Ssl.gstatic.com and 6% (7 requests) were made to Apis.google.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (896 ms) relates to the external source Juxtaposeweb.co.za.
Page size can be reduced by 551.6 kB (36%)
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In fact, the total size of Gadget.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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.
Potential reduce by 67.8 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 67.8 kB or 83% of the original size.
Potential reduce by 220.9 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, Gadget needs image optimization as it can save up to 220.9 kB or 21% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.
Potential reduce by 215.6 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 215.6 kB or 65% of the original size.
Potential reduce by 47.3 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. Gadget.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 47.3 kB or 80% of the original size.
Number of requests can be reduced by 46 (41%)
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The browser has sent 113 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Gadget. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 24 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 12 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.
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gadget.co.za accessibility score
Contrast
These are opportunities to improve the legibility of your content.
Impact
Issue
Background and foreground colors do not have a sufficient contrast ratio.
Navigation
These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.
Impact
Issue
Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order
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
Image elements do not have [alt] attributes
Form elements do not have associated labels
Links do not have a discernible name
Best practices
These items highlight common accessibility best practices.
Impact
Issue
[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.
gadget.co.za best practices score
Trust and Safety
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Issue
Does not use HTTPS
Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks
User Experience
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Issue
Serves images with low resolution
General
Impact
Issue
Detected JavaScript libraries
Browser errors were logged to the console
Page has valid source maps
gadget.co.za SEO score
Content Best Practices
Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.
Impact
Issue
Image elements do not have [alt] attributes
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
Document uses legible font sizes
Tap targets are not sized appropriately
EN
N/A
UTF-8
Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Gadget.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 Gadget.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.
gadget.co.za
Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Gadget. Lack of Open Graph description can be counter-productive for their social media presence, as such a description allows converting a website homepage (or other pages) into good-looking, rich and well-structured posts, when it is being shared on Facebook and other social media. For example, adding the following code snippet into HTML <head> tag will help to represent this web page correctly in social networks: