Tools & Wizards About Us
isizulu.news24.com screenshot

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

isizulu.news24.com

News24 | South Africa's leading source of trusted news, opinion and insight for 25 years

Page Load Speed

5.5 sec in total

First Response

43 ms

Resources Loaded

3.2 sec

Page Rendered

2.3 sec

isizulu.news24.com screenshot

About Website

Visit isizulu.news24.com now to see the best up-to-date Isizulu News24 content for South Africa and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about isizulu.news24.com

News24 is South Africa's leading source of trusted news, opinion, business, sport and lifestyle content.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Isizulu.news24.com page load time and found that the first response time was 43 ms and then it took 5.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 75% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

isizulu.news24.com performance score

10

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.2 s

78/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value11.1 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value12.1 s

4/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value11,790 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.534

14/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value46.5 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

isizulu.news24.com

43 ms

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96 ms

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44 ms

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72 ms

Our browser made a total of 191 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Isizulu.news24.com, 49% (93 requests) were made to Cdn.24.co.za and 24% (45 requests) were made to News24.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.6 sec) relates to the external source Cdn.24.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 586.2 kB (24%)

Content Size

2.5 MB

After Optimization

1.9 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Isizulu.news24.com main page is 2.5 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. 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. Images take 1.5 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 442.5 kB

  • Original 511.4 kB
  • After minification 412.9 kB
  • After compression 68.9 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 98.5 kB, which is 19% of the original size. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 442.5 kB or 87% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-9%

Potential reduce by 133.5 kB

  • Original 1.5 MB
  • After minification 1.4 MB

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. Isizulu News24 images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 8.1 kB

  • Original 400.1 kB
  • After minification 400.1 kB
  • After compression 392.0 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 2.2 kB

  • Original 57.4 kB
  • After minification 55.5 kB
  • After compression 55.3 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. Isizulu.news24.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 53 (29%)

Requests Now

181

After Optimization

128

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 181 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Isizulu News24. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 27 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 15 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

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9 ms

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Accessibility Review

isizulu.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

isizulu.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

isizulu.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 Isizulu.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 Isizulu.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

isizulu.news24.com

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of Isizulu News24. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: