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news24.com.ng

Africa | News24

Page Load Speed

9.9 sec in total

First Response

684 ms

Resources Loaded

8.9 sec

Page Rendered

330 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed News24.com.ng page load time and found that the first response time was 684 ms and then it took 9.2 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

news24.com.ng performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

news24.com.ng

684 ms

www.news24.com.ng

1381 ms

reset.css

446 ms

960.css

448 ms

nigeria.css

1156 ms

Our browser made a total of 216 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 27% of them (59 requests) were addressed to the original News24.com.ng, 32% (70 requests) were made to Cdn.24.co.za and 11% (24 requests) were made to Static.xx.fbcdn.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (3.8 sec) relates to the external source Cdn.24.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 810.8 kB (41%)

Content Size

2.0 MB

After Optimization

1.1 MB

In fact, the total size of News24.com.ng main page is 2.0 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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 931.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 215.7 kB

  • Original 271.9 kB
  • After minification 258.4 kB
  • After compression 56.2 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 215.7 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 74.6 kB

  • Original 931.7 kB
  • After minification 857.1 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. News24 images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-61%

Potential reduce by 313.9 kB

  • Original 515.1 kB
  • After minification 482.5 kB
  • After compression 201.1 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 313.9 kB or 61% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 206.6 kB

  • Original 240.2 kB
  • After minification 204.2 kB
  • After compression 33.7 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. News24.com.ng needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 206.6 kB or 86% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 97 (45%)

Requests Now

214

After Optimization

117

The browser has sent 214 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of News24. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 57 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 10 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

news24.com.ng SEO score

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Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise News24.com.ng 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 News24.com.ng main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of News24. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: