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Report Summary

  • 6

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    21% of other websites

  • 87

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 66% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    20% of websites

  • 83

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    46% of websites

timeslive.co.za

TimesLIVE - Breaking news, investigations, sport and entertainment

Page Load Speed

9.1 sec in total

First Response

2.8 sec

Resources Loaded

5.3 sec

Page Rendered

1.1 sec

timeslive.co.za screenshot

About Website

Click here to check amazing TimesLIVE content for South Africa. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about timeslive.co.za

Latest news from South Africa, World, Politics, Entertainment and Lifestyle. The home of The Times and Sunday Times newspaper.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Timeslive.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 2.8 sec and then it took 6.4 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

timeslive.co.za performance score

6

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.6 s

31/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value14.7 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value18.3 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value6,440 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.465

19/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value24.1 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.timeslive.co.za

2773 ms

vicinity-head-tag-v1.js

75 ms

gpt.js

151 ms

gtm.js

116 ms

fbevents.js

75 ms

Our browser made a total of 74 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 59% of them (44 requests) were addressed to the original Timeslive.co.za, 8% (6 requests) were made to Lh3.googleusercontent.com and 4% (3 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.8 sec) belongs to the original domain Timeslive.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 614.3 kB (34%)

Content Size

1.8 MB

After Optimization

1.2 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Timeslive.co.za main page is 1.8 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. 75% 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 713.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 450.5 kB

  • Original 534.0 kB
  • After minification 529.3 kB
  • After compression 83.5 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 450.5 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-11%

Potential reduce by 81.7 kB

  • Original 713.1 kB
  • After minification 631.4 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. Obviously, TimesLIVE needs image optimization as it can save up to 81.7 kB or 11% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-13%

Potential reduce by 67.7 kB

  • Original 504.3 kB
  • After minification 504.3 kB
  • After compression 436.5 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 67.7 kB or 13% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-24%

Potential reduce by 14.3 kB

  • Original 59.6 kB
  • After minification 59.6 kB
  • After compression 45.2 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. Timeslive.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 14.3 kB or 24% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 28 (40%)

Requests Now

70

After Optimization

42

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 70 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of TimesLIVE. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 25 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

www.timeslive.co.za

www.timeslive.co.za

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75 ms

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105 ms

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1196 ms

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562 ms

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362 ms

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Accessibility Review

timeslive.co.za accessibility score

87

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

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>).

Best Practices

timeslive.co.za best practices score

58

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

High

Requests the geolocation permission on page load

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

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

timeslive.co.za SEO score

83

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

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 Timeslive.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 Timeslive.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

timeslive.co.za

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