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Report Summary

  • 45

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    64% of other websites

  • 92

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 78% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 99

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    93% of websites

metrosmag.co.za

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Page Load Speed

14.8 sec in total

First Response

3.4 sec

Resources Loaded

10.4 sec

Page Rendered

948 ms

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South Africa’s informative metropolitan magazine, promoting metropolis lifestyles stories with a fresh and new perspective to lifestyle journalism. Metros magazine caters for a versatile audience with...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Metrosmag.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 3.4 sec and then it took 11.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 90% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

metrosmag.co.za performance score

45

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value13.4 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value15.4 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value26.8 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value90 ms

99/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.002

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value18.1 s

3/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

metrosmag.co.za

3442 ms

canvas.css

893 ms

powerkit.css

901 ms

block.css

613 ms

block.css

614 ms

Our browser made a total of 129 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 88% of them (114 requests) were addressed to the original Metrosmag.co.za, 4% (5 requests) were made to Static.searchiq.co and 2% (2 requests) were made to Connect.facebook.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (3.4 sec) belongs to the original domain Metrosmag.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 2.0 MB (66%)

Content Size

3.0 MB

After Optimization

1.0 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Metrosmag.co.za main page is 3.0 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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 218.3 kB

  • Original 255.4 kB
  • After minification 250.0 kB
  • After compression 37.0 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 218.3 kB or 86% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-48%

Potential reduce by 615.1 kB

  • Original 1.3 MB
  • After minification 670.9 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, Metrosmag needs image optimization as it can save up to 615.1 kB or 48% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-66%

Potential reduce by 323.0 kB

  • Original 492.6 kB
  • After minification 463.5 kB
  • After compression 169.7 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 323.0 kB or 66% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 826.9 kB

  • Original 981.1 kB
  • After minification 871.4 kB
  • After compression 154.2 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. Metrosmag.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 826.9 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 103 (82%)

Requests Now

125

After Optimization

22

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 125 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Metrosmag. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 48 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 57 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

metrosmag.co.za

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Accessibility Review

metrosmag.co.za accessibility score

92

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

button, link, and menuitem elements 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

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

metrosmag.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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

metrosmag.co.za SEO score

99

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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

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 Metrosmag.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 Metrosmag.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

metrosmag.co.za

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