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Click here to check amazing News24 content for South Africa. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about news24.com
News24 is South Africa's leading source of trusted news, opinion, business, sport and lifestyle content.
Visit news24.comWe analyzed News24.com page load time and found that the first response time was 1.2 sec and then it took 117.2 sec 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.
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Our browser made a total of 206 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 7% of them (14 requests) were addressed to the original News24.com, 28% (58 requests) were made to Static.24.co.za and 15% (31 requests) were made to Cdn.24.co.za. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (5.7 sec) relates to the external source Static.xx.fbcdn.net.
Page size can be reduced by 2.9 MB (36%)
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In fact, the total size of News24.com main page is 8.2 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. 85% 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 4.9 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.
Potential reduce by 293.4 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 50.0 kB, which is 14% 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 293.4 kB or 81% of the original size.
Potential reduce by 490.2 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. News24 images are well optimized though.
Potential reduce by 1.2 MB
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 1.2 MB or 70% of the original size.
Potential reduce by 918.7 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. News24.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 918.7 kB or 83% of the original size.
Number of requests can be reduced by 93 (47%)
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The browser has sent 200 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of 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 45 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 11 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.
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news24.com accessibility score
Contrast
These are opportunities to improve the legibility of your content.
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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.
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<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title
news24.com best practices score
Trust and Safety
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Does not use HTTPS
Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks
General
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Browser errors were logged to the console
Page has valid source maps
Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools
news24.com SEO score
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/).
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Document uses legible font sizes
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Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise 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 News24.com main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.
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Open Graph data is detected on the main page of News24. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: