Report Summary

  • 22

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    40% of other websites

  • 95

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 87% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 79

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    40% of websites

jabavuurbannews.co.za

Soweto Urban | Breaking local news in Soweto

Page Load Speed

7.8 sec in total

First Response

1.4 sec

Resources Loaded

6.1 sec

Page Rendered

252 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Jabavuurbannews.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 1.4 sec 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

jabavuurbannews.co.za performance score

22

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.6 s

65/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value25.4 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value15.0 s

1/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,230 ms

6/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.098

90/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value22.2 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

wp-login.php

1422 ms

buttons.min.css

277 ms

css

25 ms

dashicons.min.css

1033 ms

login.min.css

752 ms

Our browser made a total of 13 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 62% of them (8 requests) were addressed to the original Jabavuurbannews.co.za, 23% (3 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 8% (1 request) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.5 sec) belongs to the original domain Jabavuurbannews.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 44.5 kB (44%)

Content Size

101.9 kB

After Optimization

57.3 kB

In fact, the total size of Jabavuurbannews.co.za main page is 101.9 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. 20% of websites need less resources to load. CSS take 73.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-60%

Potential reduce by 4.9 kB

  • Original 8.2 kB
  • After minification 7.9 kB
  • After compression 3.3 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 4.9 kB or 60% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 615 B

  • Original 11.3 kB
  • After minification 10.7 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. Jabavu Urban News images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 8.9 kB
  • After minification 8.9 kB
  • After compression 8.9 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-53%

Potential reduce by 39.0 kB

  • Original 73.5 kB
  • After minification 72.8 kB
  • After compression 34.4 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. Jabavuurbannews.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 39.0 kB or 53% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 4 (44%)

Requests Now

9

After Optimization

5

The browser has sent 9 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Jabavu Urban News. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

jabavuurbannews.co.za accessibility score

95

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 input fields do not have accessible names

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.

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

jabavuurbannews.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

jabavuurbannews.co.za SEO score

79

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

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

robots.txt is not valid

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 Jabavuurbannews.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 Jabavuurbannews.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 description is not detected on the main page of Jabavu Urban News. 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: