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Report Summary

  • 16

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    30% of other websites

  • 82

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 54% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 69

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    28% of websites

startupmag.co.za

StartUp Mag South Africa - Everything Entreprenuership & StartUps

Page Load Speed

8.5 sec in total

First Response

1.1 sec

Resources Loaded

6.7 sec

Page Rendered

667 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Startupmag.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 1.1 sec and then it took 7.4 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

startupmag.co.za performance score

16

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.4 s

7/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value10.8 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value41.1 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value58,480 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.02

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value83.9 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

startupmag.co.za

1068 ms

analytics.js

23 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

761 ms

style.css

953 ms

reset.css

522 ms

Our browser made a total of 40 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 90% of them (36 requests) were addressed to the original Startupmag.co.za, 5% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 5% (2 requests) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (4.6 sec) belongs to the original domain Startupmag.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 358.5 kB (40%)

Content Size

903.2 kB

After Optimization

544.6 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Startupmag.co.za main page is 903.2 kB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 15% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 465.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 31.3 kB

  • Original 39.2 kB
  • After minification 33.6 kB
  • After compression 7.9 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 5.6 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 31.3 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 27.1 kB

  • Original 465.2 kB
  • After minification 438.0 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. Start Up Mag images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-72%

Potential reduce by 229.6 kB

  • Original 318.7 kB
  • After minification 273.4 kB
  • After compression 89.1 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 229.6 kB or 72% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-88%

Potential reduce by 70.5 kB

  • Original 80.1 kB
  • After minification 58.1 kB
  • After compression 9.6 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. Startupmag.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 70.5 kB or 88% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 14 (36%)

Requests Now

39

After Optimization

25

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 39 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Start Up 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 11 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

startupmag.co.za

startupmag.co.za

1068 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

23 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

wp-emoji-release.min.js

761 ms

style.css

style.css

953 ms

reset.css

reset.css

522 ms

media-queries.css

media-queries.css

754 ms

css

css

26 ms

jquery.js

jquery.js

1262 ms

jquery-migrate.min.js

jquery-migrate.min.js

675 ms

collect

collect

13 ms

comment-reply.min.js

comment-reply.min.js

992 ms

jquery.iosslider.js

jquery.iosslider.js

1887 ms

scripts.js

scripts.js

1142 ms

jquery.lazyload.js

jquery.lazyload.js

1226 ms

jquery.infinitescroll.js

jquery.infinitescroll.js

1786 ms

respond.min.js

respond.min.js

1653 ms

retina.js

retina.js

1689 ms

css

css

13 ms

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1122 ms

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2005 ms

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1345 ms

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1358 ms

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1705 ms

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logo-RED5.png

1322 ms

search-icon.png

search-icon.png

1592 ms

How-to-start-a-business-660x400.jpg

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2622 ms

Startup-are-hard-270x164.jpg

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1849 ms

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1867 ms

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2085 ms

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2230 ms

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trans.gif

2365 ms

AfricaBannerSquare2015.jpg

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3121 ms

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2504 ms

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2596 ms

logo-RED6.png

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2732 ms

fade-left.png

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2841 ms

fade-right.png

fade-right.png

2987 ms

search-bg.png

search-bg.png

3058 ms

Wallpaper.gif

Wallpaper.gif

4569 ms

social-sprite.png

social-sprite.png

3196 ms

Accessibility Review

startupmag.co.za accessibility score

82

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

[aria-*] attributes do not match their roles

High

[aria-hidden="true"] elements contain focusable descendents

High

ARIA input fields do not have accessible names

High

[aria-*] attributes do not have valid values

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

startupmag.co.za best practices score

83

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

startupmag.co.za SEO score

69

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Startupmag.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 Startupmag.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

startupmag.co.za

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Start Up 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: