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learnthenews.co.za

Learn The News – Informative Digital News for Upper Primary and Lower Secondary Students

Page Load Speed

8.9 sec in total

First Response

1.3 sec

Resources Loaded

7.3 sec

Page Rendered

296 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Learnthenews.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 1.3 sec and then it took 7.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 85% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

learnthenews.co.za performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

www.learnthenews.co.za

1329 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

268 ms

styles.css

528 ms

jquery.qtip.min.css

531 ms

default.css

536 ms

Our browser made a total of 55 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 91% of them (50 requests) were addressed to the original Learnthenews.co.za, 4% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 2% (1 request) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.1 sec) belongs to the original domain Learnthenews.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 429.2 kB (43%)

Content Size

991.7 kB

After Optimization

562.4 kB

In fact, the total size of Learnthenews.co.za main page is 991.7 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. 40% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 418.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 23.6 kB

  • Original 30.8 kB
  • After minification 29.9 kB
  • After compression 7.1 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 23.6 kB or 77% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 21.9 kB

  • Original 418.4 kB
  • After minification 396.5 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. Learn The News images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-66%

Potential reduce by 232.4 kB

  • Original 350.0 kB
  • After minification 319.9 kB
  • After compression 117.7 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 232.4 kB or 66% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 151.3 kB

  • Original 192.5 kB
  • After minification 168.9 kB
  • After compression 41.2 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. Learnthenews.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 151.3 kB or 79% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 41 (79%)

Requests Now

52

After Optimization

11

The browser has sent 52 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Learn The 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 25 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 9 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

learnthenews.co.za SEO score

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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 Learnthenews.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 Learnthenews.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

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Learn The News. 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: