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m.24.com

News24 | South Africa's leading source of breaking news, opinion and insight

Page Load Speed

4.5 sec in total

First Response

668 ms

Resources Loaded

3.4 sec

Page Rendered

462 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed M.24.com page load time and found that the first response time was 668 ms and then it took 3.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 60% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

m.24.com performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

m.24.com

668 ms

m.news24.com

719 ms

315 ms

lowend.min.css

231 ms

basic.min.js

441 ms

Our browser made a total of 27 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 4% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original M.24.com, 44% (12 requests) were made to M.news24.com and 11% (3 requests) were made to Pubads.g.doubleclick.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.1 sec) relates to the external source Stats.24.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 117.1 kB (66%)

Content Size

176.7 kB

After Optimization

59.6 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of M.24.com main page is 176.7 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. 20% of websites need less resources to load. CSS take 78.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 35.3 kB

  • Original 43.4 kB
  • After minification 31.7 kB
  • After compression 8.2 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 11.7 kB, which is 27% 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 35.3 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-14%

Potential reduce by 2.2 kB

  • Original 15.7 kB
  • After minification 13.4 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, M 24 needs image optimization as it can save up to 2.2 kB or 14% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-37%

Potential reduce by 14.5 kB

  • Original 39.4 kB
  • After minification 39.4 kB
  • After compression 24.9 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 14.5 kB or 37% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 65.1 kB

  • Original 78.2 kB
  • After minification 77.4 kB
  • After compression 13.1 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. M.24.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 65.1 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 11 (48%)

Requests Now

23

After Optimization

12

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 23 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of M 24. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 5 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

m.24.com

m.24.com

668 ms

m.news24.com

m.news24.com

719 ms

315 ms

lowend.min.css

lowend.min.css

231 ms

basic.min.js

basic.min.js

441 ms

styles.min.css

styles.min.css

456 ms

atrk.js

atrk.js

95 ms

ad

ad

87 ms

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92 ms

GaTrack.axd

GaTrack.axd

1111 ms

rep.gif

rep.gif

90 ms

ad

ad

83 ms

ad

ad

85 ms

header_link_arrows.png

header_link_arrows.png

232 ms

ugc_upload.png

ugc_upload.png

222 ms

imagecache.axd

imagecache.axd

235 ms

imagecache.axd

imagecache.axd

670 ms

imagecache.axd

imagecache.axd

445 ms

imagecache.axd

imagecache.axd

671 ms

em.js

em.js

199 ms

roboto.woff

roboto.woff

656 ms

atrk.gif

atrk.gif

32 ms

test.png

test.png

445 ms

frame_2.3.3.html

frame_2.3.3.html

164 ms

p

p

96 ms

video.min.js

video.min.js

80 ms

chartbeat.js

chartbeat.js

61 ms

SEO Factors

m.24.com SEO score

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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 M.24.com 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 M.24.com 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

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Open Graph data is detected on the main page of M 24. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: