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Report Summary

  • 87

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    89% of other websites

  • 89

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 71% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 64

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    24% of websites

sundaynews.co.za

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Page Load Speed

2.2 sec in total

First Response

687 ms

Resources Loaded

1.4 sec

Page Rendered

92 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Sundaynews.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 687 ms and then it took 1.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 30% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

sundaynews.co.za performance score

87

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.0 s

49/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.0 s

77/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.7 s

86/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value3.0 s

96/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

sundaynews.co.za

687 ms

typeface.js

379 ms

ltv_lig.js

615 ms

ltv_med.js

590 ms

page_redirecting.jpg

16 ms

Our browser made a total of 6 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 17% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Sundaynews.co.za, 83% (5 requests) were made to Afrihost.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (687 ms) belongs to the original domain Sundaynews.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 4.0 kB (71%)

Content Size

5.7 kB

After Optimization

1.6 kB

  • HTML

In fact, the total size of Sundaynews.co.za main page is 5.7 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. Only 10% of websites need less resources to load. HTML takes 5.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-71%

Potential reduce by 4.0 kB

  • Original 5.7 kB
  • After minification 5.6 kB
  • After compression 1.6 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 4.0 kB or 71% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

3

After Optimization

3

  • JavaScript

The browser has sent 3 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Sundaynews. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Network Requests Diagram

sundaynews.co.za

sundaynews.co.za

687 ms

typeface.js

typeface.js

379 ms

ltv_lig.js

ltv_lig.js

615 ms

ltv_med.js

ltv_med.js

590 ms

page_redirecting.jpg

page_redirecting.jpg

16 ms

head_logo_inv.png

head_logo_inv.png

29 ms

Accessibility Review

sundaynews.co.za accessibility score

89

Accessibility Issues

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

Best Practices

sundaynews.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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

sundaynews.co.za SEO score

64

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Sundaynews.co.za can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Sundaynews.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

sundaynews.co.za

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Sundaynews. 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: