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Visit news.24.comWe analyzed News.24.com page load time and found that the first response time was 1.4 sec 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.
news.24.com performance score
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Our browser made a total of 18 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 6% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original News.24.com, 94% (17 requests) were made to Branding.naspers.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.4 sec) belongs to the original domain News.24.com.
Page size can be reduced by 17.1 kB (21%)
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In fact, the total size of News.24.com main page is 80.7 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. 15% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 60.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.
Potential reduce by 17.0 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 3.3 kB, which is 16% 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 17.0 kB or 84% of the original size.
Potential reduce by 85 B
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. News 24 images are well optimized though.
We found no issues to fix!
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The browser has sent 16 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of News 24. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.
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news.24.com SEO score
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Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise News.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 News.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.
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Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of News 24. 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: