Report Summary

  • 7

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    22% of other websites

  • 74

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 41% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

sarugbymag.co.za

SA Rugby magazine - South African rugby news, interviews, videos and more. Covering the Springboks, Bulls, Stormers, Sharks, Cheetahs and Lions, as we...

Page Load Speed

7.4 sec in total

First Response

202 ms

Resources Loaded

6.5 sec

Page Rendered

656 ms

sarugbymag.co.za screenshot

About Website

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South African rugby news, interviews, videos and more. Covering the Springboks, Bulls, Stormers, Sharks, Cheetahs and Lions, as well as schools and club rugby.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Sarugbymag.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 202 ms and then it took 7.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 80% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

sarugbymag.co.za performance score

7

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.2 s

19/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value13.0 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value11.6 s

5/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,710 ms

3/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.434

22/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value20.6 s

2/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

sarugbymag.co.za

202 ms

www.sarugbymag.co.za

344 ms

base.css

15 ms

skeleton.css

16 ms

main.css

16 ms

Our browser made a total of 201 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 29% of them (58 requests) were addressed to the original Sarugbymag.co.za, 11% (23 requests) were made to Dash4cash.com and 11% (23 requests) were made to Ads.hsmdns.co.za. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.4 sec) belongs to the original domain Sarugbymag.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.3 MB (48%)

Content Size

2.8 MB

After Optimization

1.5 MB

In fact, the total size of Sarugbymag.co.za main page is 2.8 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 1.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 94.9 kB

  • Original 111.3 kB
  • After minification 83.5 kB
  • After compression 16.4 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 27.8 kB, which is 25% 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 94.9 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-24%

Potential reduce by 329.6 kB

  • Original 1.3 MB
  • After minification 1.0 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. Obviously, SA Rugby Mag needs image optimization as it can save up to 329.6 kB or 24% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-59%

Potential reduce by 512.1 kB

  • Original 873.8 kB
  • After minification 870.2 kB
  • After compression 361.7 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 512.1 kB or 59% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 407.5 kB

  • Original 480.3 kB
  • After minification 422.1 kB
  • After compression 72.8 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. Sarugbymag.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 407.5 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 85 (46%)

Requests Now

183

After Optimization

98

The browser has sent 183 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of SA Rugby Mag. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 42 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 13 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

sarugbymag.co.za accessibility score

74

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

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Lists do not contain only <li> elements and script supporting elements (<script> and <template>).

High

List items (<li>) are not contained within <ul> or <ol> parent elements.

Best Practices

sarugbymag.co.za best practices score

67

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

High

Includes front-end JavaScript libraries with known security vulnerabilities

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

sarugbymag.co.za SEO score

86

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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 Sarugbymag.co.za 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 Sarugbymag.co.za 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 description is not detected on the main page of SA Rugby Mag. 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: