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Report Summary

  • 51

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    69% of other websites

  • 72

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 37% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 96

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    90% of websites

acumenmagazine.co.za

Acumen | Home

Page Load Speed

6.4 sec in total

First Response

706 ms

Resources Loaded

5.2 sec

Page Rendered

438 ms

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About Website

Welcome to acumenmagazine.co.za homepage info - get ready to check Acumen Magazine best content for South Africa right away, or after learning these important things about acumenmagazine.co.za

Acumen is the quarterly business journal of the Gordon Institute of Business Science — Africa’s premier business school — and aims to be South Africa’s most compelling long-form business read. The mag...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Acumenmagazine.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 706 ms and then it took 5.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 75% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

acumenmagazine.co.za performance score

51

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.0 s

10/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.1 s

2/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.5 s

18/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value110 ms

97/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value8.9 s

35/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

acumenmagazine.co.za

706 ms

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1099 ms

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460 ms

font-awesome.css

26 ms

app.js

1143 ms

Our browser made a total of 53 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 19% of them (10 requests) were addressed to the original Acumenmagazine.co.za, 36% (19 requests) were made to Cms.contactmedia.co.za and 19% (10 requests) were made to Ads.weanswer.it. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.2 sec) relates to the external source Cms.contactmedia.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 69.2 kB (4%)

Content Size

1.6 MB

After Optimization

1.5 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Acumenmagazine.co.za main page is 1.6 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. 50% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 31.2 kB

  • Original 38.8 kB
  • After minification 38.5 kB
  • After compression 7.6 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 31.2 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 5.7 kB

  • Original 1.3 MB
  • After minification 1.2 MB

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. Acumen Magazine images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-13%

Potential reduce by 32.2 kB

  • Original 247.7 kB
  • After minification 247.7 kB
  • After compression 215.5 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 32.2 kB or 13% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 44 B

  • Original 40.6 kB
  • After minification 40.6 kB
  • After compression 40.6 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. Acumenmagazine.co.za has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 4 (9%)

Requests Now

45

After Optimization

41

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 45 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Acumen Magazine. 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

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706 ms

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1099 ms

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Accessibility Review

acumenmagazine.co.za accessibility score

72

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

ARIA input fields do not have accessible names

High

Elements with an ARIA [role] that require children to contain a specific [role] are missing some or all of those required children.

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.

Impact

Issue

High

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Contrast

These are opportunities to improve the legibility of your content.

Impact

Issue

High

Background and foreground colors do not have a sufficient contrast ratio.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Best Practices

acumenmagazine.co.za best practices score

83

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

High

Includes front-end JavaScript libraries with known security vulnerabilities

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

acumenmagazine.co.za SEO score

96

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Mobile Friendly

Make sure your pages are mobile friendly so users don’t have to pinch or zoom in order to read the content pages. [Learn more](https://developers.google.com/search/mobile-sites/).

Impact

Issue

High

Document uses legible font sizes

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

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 Acumenmagazine.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 Acumenmagazine.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

acumenmagazine.co.za

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Acumen Magazine. 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: