Report Summary

  • 22

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    40% 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

win.news24.com

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

Page Load Speed

4.8 sec in total

First Response

69 ms

Resources Loaded

2.2 sec

Page Rendered

2.5 sec

win.news24.com screenshot

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Win.news24.com page load time and found that the first response time was 69 ms and then it took 4.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 70% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

win.news24.com performance score

22

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.2 s

77/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value14.1 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.8 s

10/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value12,840 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.109

87/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value37.7 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

win.news24.com

69 ms

www.news24.com

71 ms

style.min.css

44 ms

gpt.js

118 ms

htmx.min.js

60 ms

Our browser made a total of 189 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Win.news24.com, 49% (93 requests) were made to Cdn.24.co.za and 24% (46 requests) were made to News24.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2 sec) relates to the external source Images.prop24.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 447.1 kB (13%)

Content Size

3.3 MB

After Optimization

2.9 MB

In fact, the total size of Win.news24.com main page is 3.3 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. 80% 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 2.6 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 434.3 kB

  • Original 501.1 kB
  • After minification 403.4 kB
  • After compression 66.8 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 97.7 kB, which is 20% 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 434.3 kB or 87% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 2.4 kB

  • Original 2.6 MB
  • After minification 2.6 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. Win News24 images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 8.2 kB

  • Original 224.7 kB
  • After minification 224.7 kB
  • After compression 216.6 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 57.6 kB
  • After minification 55.6 kB
  • After compression 55.4 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. Win.news24.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 55 (31%)

Requests Now

180

After Optimization

125

The browser has sent 180 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Win 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 28 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 15 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

win.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

win.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

win.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 Win.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 Win.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

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