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sbeta.iol.co.za

IOL | Breaking News | South Africa News | World News | Sport | Business | Entertainment | IOL.co.za

Page Load Speed

5 sec in total

First Response

196 ms

Resources Loaded

2.5 sec

Page Rendered

2.3 sec

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Sbeta.iol.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 196 ms and then it took 4.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 70% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

sbeta.iol.co.za performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

sbeta.iol.co.za

196 ms

www.iol.co.za

492 ms

modernizr-custom-3.2.0.js

5 ms

main.min.css

11 ms

unite-gallery.css

24 ms

Our browser made a total of 131 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Sbeta.iol.co.za, 43% (56 requests) were made to Classic.iol.co.za and 24% (32 requests) were made to Iol.co.za. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (944 ms) relates to the external source Classic.iol.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 488.3 kB (60%)

Content Size

815.2 kB

After Optimization

326.9 kB

In fact, the total size of Sbeta.iol.co.za main page is 815.2 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. 75% 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. HTML takes 379.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 324.8 kB

  • Original 379.3 kB
  • After minification 377.4 kB
  • After compression 54.5 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 324.8 kB or 86% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-11%

Potential reduce by 19.6 kB

  • Original 183.1 kB
  • After minification 163.4 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. Obviously, Sbeta IOL needs image optimization as it can save up to 19.6 kB or 11% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-57%

Potential reduce by 143.8 kB

  • Original 252.8 kB
  • After minification 252.7 kB
  • After compression 109.0 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 143.8 kB or 57% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 38 (54%)

Requests Now

70

After Optimization

32

The browser has sent 70 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Sbeta IOL. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 30 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

sbeta.iol.co.za SEO score

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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 Sbeta.iol.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 Sbeta.iol.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 Sbeta IOL. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: