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Report Summary

  • 10

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    23% of other websites

  • 96

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 88% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    94% of websites

bethegeneration.news24.com

News24 | South Africa's leading source of trusted news, opinion and insight

Page Load Speed

163 ms in total

First Response

31 ms

Resources Loaded

132 ms

Page Rendered

0 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Bethegeneration.news24.com page load time and found that the first response time was 31 ms and then it took 132 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is an excellent result, as only a small number of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

bethegeneration.news24.com performance score

10

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.1 s

79/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value15.0 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value13.3 s

2/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value14,660 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.551

13/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value48.3 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

bethegeneration.news24.com

31 ms

www.news24.com

48 ms

v1

51 ms

Our browser made a total of 3 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 33% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Bethegeneration.news24.com, 67% (2 requests) were made to News24.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (51 ms) relates to the external source News24.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 20.9 kB (2%)

Content Size

1.2 MB

After Optimization

1.2 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Bethegeneration.news24.com main page is 1.2 MB. This result falls within a vast category (top 1 000 000) of heavyweight, probably not optimized, and thus slow loading web pages. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Images take 913.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-32%

Potential reduce by 3.0 kB

  • Original 9.6 kB
  • After minification 9.6 kB
  • After compression 6.6 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 3.0 kB or 32% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 2.5 kB

  • Original 913.5 kB
  • After minification 911.0 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. Bethegeneration News24 images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 396 B

  • Original 217.3 kB
  • After minification 217.3 kB
  • After compression 216.9 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

-22%

Potential reduce by 15.0 kB

  • Original 67.6 kB
  • After minification 67.6 kB
  • After compression 52.6 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. Bethegeneration.news24.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 15.0 kB or 22% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

1

After Optimization

1

  • JavaScript

The browser has sent 1 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Bethegeneration News24. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Network Requests Diagram

bethegeneration.news24.com

bethegeneration.news24.com

31 ms

www.news24.com

www.news24.com

48 ms

v1

v1

51 ms

Accessibility Review

bethegeneration.news24.com accessibility score

96

Accessibility Issues

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.

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

Best Practices

bethegeneration.news24.com best practices score

75

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

High

Requests the geolocation permission on page load

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

bethegeneration.news24.com SEO score

100

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

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 Bethegeneration.news24.com 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 Bethegeneration.news24.com 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

bethegeneration.news24.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Bethegeneration News24. 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: