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Report Summary

  • 90

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    91% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 95

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    91% of websites

ecommercenews.co.za

Ecommerce News - SA - E-Commerce & Online Retail in Africa - The latest local and international trends and news on online shopping and stores.

Page Load Speed

11.5 sec in total

First Response

4.4 sec

Resources Loaded

6.6 sec

Page Rendered

551 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Ecommercenews.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 4.4 sec and then it took 7.1 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

ecommercenews.co.za performance score

90

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.9 s

87/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.9 s

82/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.2 s

60/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value40 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value2.6 s

98/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

ecommercenews.co.za

4374 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

536 ms

style.css

847 ms

blue.css

539 ms

jquery.js

1123 ms

Our browser made a total of 30 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 93% of them (28 requests) were addressed to the original Ecommercenews.co.za, 7% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (4.4 sec) belongs to the original domain Ecommercenews.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 239.6 kB (32%)

Content Size

738.8 kB

After Optimization

499.3 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Ecommercenews.co.za main page is 738.8 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 420.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 70.1 kB

  • Original 82.6 kB
  • After minification 76.1 kB
  • After compression 12.5 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 70.1 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 13.4 kB

  • Original 420.9 kB
  • After minification 407.5 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. Ecommerce News images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-59%

Potential reduce by 97.1 kB

  • Original 165.5 kB
  • After minification 164.8 kB
  • After compression 68.3 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 97.1 kB or 59% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 58.9 kB

  • Original 69.8 kB
  • After minification 52.1 kB
  • After compression 10.9 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. Ecommercenews.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 58.9 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 7 (24%)

Requests Now

29

After Optimization

22

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 29 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Ecommerce News. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 8 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

ecommercenews.co.za

ecommercenews.co.za

4374 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

wp-emoji-release.min.js

536 ms

style.css

style.css

847 ms

blue.css

blue.css

539 ms

jquery.js

jquery.js

1123 ms

jquery-migrate.min.js

jquery-migrate.min.js

783 ms

vertical.css

vertical.css

880 ms

jquery.cycle.all.min.js

jquery.cycle.all.min.js

551 ms

catchbox_slider.js

catchbox_slider.js

579 ms

catchbox-menu.min.js

catchbox-menu.min.js

910 ms

wp-embed.min.js

wp-embed.min.js

908 ms

ga.js

ga.js

100 ms

ecom_logo_wide.png

ecom_logo_wide.png

275 ms

search.png

search.png

265 ms

Infographic_mobile_revolution.jpg

Infographic_mobile_revolution.jpg

835 ms

20130429_tnoozpost-pc-revo_FULL1-550x320.jpg

20130429_tnoozpost-pc-revo_FULL1-550x320.jpg

799 ms

laptop_gift-644x320.jpg

laptop_gift-644x320.jpg

540 ms

ecom_red_button-500x320.jpg

ecom_red_button-500x320.jpg

844 ms

previous.png

previous.png

530 ms

next.png

next.png

563 ms

Nolan-Daniel-MD-at-Paradigm-Group-644x320.jpg

Nolan-Daniel-MD-at-Paradigm-Group-644x320.jpg

1313 ms

cro-misconceptions-644x316.jpg

cro-misconceptions-644x316.jpg

1078 ms

download.jpg

download.jpg

826 ms

256424.jpg

256424.jpg

1087 ms

012315_0901_jumiain20141.png

012315_0901_jumiain20141.png

1353 ms

download.jpg

download.jpg

1100 ms

everywhere-commerce1.jpg

everywhere-commerce1.jpg

1223 ms

logo.png

logo.png

1341 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

19 ms

social-profiles.png

social-profiles.png

1254 ms

Accessibility Review

ecommercenews.co.za accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

ecommercenews.co.za best practices score

83

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

SEO Factors

ecommercenews.co.za SEO score

95

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 Ecommercenews.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 Ecommercenews.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

ecommercenews.co.za

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