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fin24.co.za

Fin24: Business & Finance News, Stock Markets & Investing

Page Load Speed

12.2 sec in total

First Response

803 ms

Resources Loaded

7.7 sec

Page Rendered

3.7 sec

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About Website

Click here to check amazing Fin24 content for South Africa. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about fin24.co.za

South Africa’s premier site for breaking business and finance news, stock market data, economic analysis, personal finance and investment information.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Fin24.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 803 ms and then it took 11.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 90% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

fin24.co.za performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

fin24.co.za

803 ms

www.fin24.com

1509 ms

clear.css

472 ms

screenCore.min.css

1330 ms

jquery.fancybox.css

302 ms

Our browser made a total of 123 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Fin24.co.za, 32% (39 requests) were made to Fin24.com and 31% (38 requests) were made to Cdn.24.co.za. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.7 sec) relates to the external source Fin24.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.3 MB (60%)

Content Size

2.2 MB

After Optimization

856.5 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Fin24.co.za main page is 2.2 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. 55% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 846.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 264.8 kB

  • Original 323.3 kB
  • After minification 292.8 kB
  • After compression 58.5 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 264.8 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-15%

Potential reduce by 74.6 kB

  • Original 504.4 kB
  • After minification 429.8 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, Fin24 needs image optimization as it can save up to 74.6 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

-65%

Potential reduce by 548.8 kB

  • Original 846.0 kB
  • After minification 819.7 kB
  • After compression 297.2 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 548.8 kB or 65% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 421.6 kB

  • Original 492.6 kB
  • After minification 426.4 kB
  • After compression 71.0 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. Fin24.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 421.6 kB or 86% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 59 (49%)

Requests Now

121

After Optimization

62

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 121 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Fin24. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 34 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 8 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

fin24.co.za

fin24.co.za

803 ms

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1509 ms

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SEO Factors

fin24.co.za SEO score

0

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 Fin24.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 Fin24.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

fin24.co.za

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of Fin24. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: