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Visit sabcnews.comWe analyzed Sabcnews.com page load time and found that the first response time was 944 ms and then it took 20.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 95% of websites can load faster.
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Our browser made a total of 205 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 57% of them (116 requests) were addressed to the original Sabcnews.com, 25% (51 requests) were made to Omnycontent.com and 10% (20 requests) were made to Omny.fm. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (9.4 sec) belongs to the original domain Sabcnews.com.
Page size can be reduced by 1.9 MB (31%)
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In fact, the total size of Sabcnews.com main page is 6.0 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. 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 3.6 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.
Potential reduce by 374.3 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 374.3 kB or 87% of the original size.
Potential reduce by 233.4 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. SABC News 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 68% of the original size.
Potential reduce by 57.4 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. Sabcnews.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 57.4 kB or 31% of the original size.
Number of requests can be reduced by 90 (48%)
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The browser has sent 187 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of SABC News. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 60 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 32 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.
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sabcnews.com accessibility score
Navigation
These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.
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Issue
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.
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Issue
Image elements do not have [alt] attributes
Links do not have a discernible name
sabcnews.com best practices score
Trust and Safety
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Does not use HTTPS
Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks
User Experience
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Serves images with low resolution
General
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Detected JavaScript libraries
Browser errors were logged to the console
Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript
Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools
sabcnews.com SEO score
Content Best Practices
Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.
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Links do not have descriptive text
Image elements do not have [alt] attributes
Crawling and Indexing
To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.
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Links are not crawlable
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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Issue
Document uses legible font sizes
Tap targets are not sized appropriately
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Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Sabcnews.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 Sabcnews.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.
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Open Graph data is detected on the main page of SABC News. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: