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Visit timeslive.co.zaWe analyzed Timeslive.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 1.1 sec and then it took 12.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 90% of websites can load faster.
timeslive.co.za performance score
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Our browser made a total of 266 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 70% of them (186 requests) were addressed to the original Timeslive.co.za, 5% (12 requests) were made to Static.xx.fbcdn.net and 3% (8 requests) were made to Tpc.googlesyndication.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.7 sec) belongs to the original domain Timeslive.co.za.
Page size can be reduced by 2.7 MB (32%)
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In fact, the total size of Timeslive.co.za main page is 8.6 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 5.6 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.
Potential reduce by 324.4 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 58.1 kB, which is 14% of the original size. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 324.4 kB or 80% of the original size.
Potential reduce by 470.8 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. TimesLIVE images are well optimized though.
Potential reduce by 967.9 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 967.9 kB or 65% of the original size.
Potential reduce by 947.7 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. Timeslive.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 947.7 kB or 85% of the original size.
Number of requests can be reduced by 85 (32%)
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The browser has sent 262 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 47 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 15 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.
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timeslive.co.za accessibility score
Contrast
These are opportunities to improve the legibility of your content.
Impact
Issue
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.
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Issue
<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title
Best practices
These items highlight common accessibility best practices.
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[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.
timeslive.co.za best practices score
Trust and Safety
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Does not use HTTPS
Requests the geolocation permission on page load
Includes front-end JavaScript libraries with known security vulnerabilities
Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks
General
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Detected JavaScript libraries
Browser errors were logged to the console
Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript
timeslive.co.za SEO score
Crawling and Indexing
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Links are not crawlable
Mobile Friendly
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Document uses legible font sizes
Tap targets are not sized appropriately
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ISO-8859-1
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 neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Timeslive.co.za 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.
timeslive.co.za
Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of TimesLIVE. 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: