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Report Summary

  • 50

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    68% of other websites

  • 81

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 52% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 91

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    71% of websites

Page Load Speed

7 sec in total

First Response

1.3 sec

Resources Loaded

5.2 sec

Page Rendered

601 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Theconmag.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 1.3 sec and then it took 5.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 75% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

theconmag.co.za performance score

50

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.1 s

20/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.3 s

21/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.0 s

22/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value50 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.397

25/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value5.4 s

72/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.theconmag.co.za

1263 ms

style.css

266 ms

output.css

519 ms

layout.css

526 ms

widgets.css

524 ms

Our browser made a total of 52 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 69% of them (36 requests) were addressed to the original Theconmag.co.za, 6% (3 requests) were made to S.gravatar.com and 4% (2 requests) were made to S7.addthis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.9 sec) belongs to the original domain Theconmag.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 598.3 kB (44%)

Content Size

1.4 MB

After Optimization

769.5 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Theconmag.co.za main page is 1.4 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. 50% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 623.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 66.8 kB

  • Original 89.3 kB
  • After minification 82.1 kB
  • After compression 22.5 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 66.8 kB or 75% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-15%

Potential reduce by 95.1 kB

  • Original 623.0 kB
  • After minification 528.0 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. Obviously, The Con Mag needs image optimization as it can save up to 95.1 kB or 15% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-63%

Potential reduce by 346.7 kB

  • Original 549.9 kB
  • After minification 548.0 kB
  • After compression 203.3 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 346.7 kB or 63% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 89.8 kB

  • Original 105.6 kB
  • After minification 78.8 kB
  • After compression 15.7 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. Theconmag.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 89.8 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 23 (48%)

Requests Now

48

After Optimization

25

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 48 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of The Con 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 13 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 12 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

www.theconmag.co.za

www.theconmag.co.za

1263 ms

style.css

style.css

266 ms

output.css

output.css

519 ms

layout.css

layout.css

526 ms

widgets.css

widgets.css

524 ms

comment-reply.min.js

comment-reply.min.js

527 ms

jquery.js

jquery.js

792 ms

html5.js

html5.js

528 ms

fitvids.js

fitvids.js

776 ms

general.js

general.js

783 ms

www.theconmag.co.za

www.theconmag.co.za

991 ms

css

css

27 ms

default.css

default.css

782 ms

shortcodes.css

shortcodes.css

787 ms

custom.css

custom.css

1032 ms

addthis_widget.js

addthis_widget.js

23 ms

simple-events-calendar.css

simple-events-calendar.css

1169 ms

devicepx-jetpack.js

devicepx-jetpack.js

12 ms

widgets.js

widgets.js

24 ms

gprofiles.js

gprofiles.js

75 ms

wpgroho.js

wpgroho.js

1172 ms

e-201611.js

e-201611.js

25 ms

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e-201611.js

34 ms

logo_option_ml.png

logo_option_ml.png

362 ms

ico-search.png

ico-search.png

362 ms

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959 ms

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994 ms

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751 ms

Thabo_Mbeki_-_World_Economic_Forum_on_Africa_2008-100x100.jpg

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1014 ms

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785 ms

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823 ms

Thabo_Mbeki_-_World_Economic_Forum_on_Africa_2008-280x140.jpg

Thabo_Mbeki_-_World_Economic_Forum_on_Africa_2008-280x140.jpg

1556 ms

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1316 ms

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1254 ms

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1803 ms

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1589 ms

NiggaFox-280x140.jpg

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1485 ms

logo_option_11.png

logo_option_11.png

1512 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

130 ms

mooning.jpg

mooning.jpg

1872 ms

ico-rss.png

ico-rss.png

1519 ms

ico-subscribe-social.png

ico-subscribe-social.png

1542 ms

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SHIcXhdd5RknatSgOzyEkA.woff

26 ms

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26 ms

collect

collect

131 ms

g.gif

g.gif

105 ms

hovercard.css

hovercard.css

47 ms

services.css

services.css

70 ms

300lo.json

300lo.json

58 ms

sh.8e5f85691f9aaa082472a194.html

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281 ms

Accessibility Review

theconmag.co.za accessibility score

81

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

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.

Impact

Issue

High

Form elements do not have associated labels

Best practices

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

theconmag.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

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

theconmag.co.za SEO score

91

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

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

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 Theconmag.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 Theconmag.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

theconmag.co.za

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