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Report Summary

  • 99

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    96% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 64

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    24% of websites

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Page Load Speed

3.5 sec in total

First Response

1 sec

Resources Loaded

2.3 sec

Page Rendered

233 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Businesstodaysa.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 1 sec and then it took 2.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

businesstodaysa.co.za performance score

99

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value0.7 s

100/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value0.7 s

100/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value1.6 s

100/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value120 ms

97/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value0.9 s

100/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

businesstodaysa.co.za

1006 ms

respond.min.js

490 ms

bt-rwd.css

500 ms

boilerplate.css

741 ms

jquery-latest.min.js

38 ms

Our browser made a total of 25 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 68% of them (17 requests) were addressed to the original Businesstodaysa.co.za, 8% (2 requests) were made to Code.jquery.com and 8% (2 requests) were made to Maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1 sec) belongs to the original domain Businesstodaysa.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 185.0 kB (32%)

Content Size

571.7 kB

After Optimization

386.6 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Businesstodaysa.co.za main page is 571.7 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. 45% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 297.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 21.0 kB

  • Original 26.9 kB
  • After minification 24.9 kB
  • After compression 5.8 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 21.0 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 297.7 kB
  • After minification 297.7 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. Business Today Sa images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-64%

Potential reduce by 134.3 kB

  • Original 211.5 kB
  • After minification 211.3 kB
  • After compression 77.2 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 134.3 kB or 64% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 29.7 kB

  • Original 35.6 kB
  • After minification 24.3 kB
  • After compression 6.0 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. Businesstodaysa.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 29.7 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 9 (39%)

Requests Now

23

After Optimization

14

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 23 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Business Today Sa. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 7 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

businesstodaysa.co.za

businesstodaysa.co.za

1006 ms

respond.min.js

respond.min.js

490 ms

bt-rwd.css

bt-rwd.css

500 ms

boilerplate.css

boilerplate.css

741 ms

jquery-latest.min.js

jquery-latest.min.js

38 ms

menumaker.min.js

menumaker.min.js

79 ms

menu.js

menu.js

507 ms

font-awesome.min.css

font-awesome.min.css

43 ms

menu.css

menu.css

504 ms

jquery-1.9.1.js

jquery-1.9.1.js

43 ms

easy_rotator.min.js

easy_rotator.min.js

86 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

59 ms

business-today-logo.gif

business-today-logo.gif

254 ms

mobi-6.jpg

mobi-6.jpg

500 ms

mobi-4.jpg

mobi-4.jpg

506 ms

mobi-2.jpg

mobi-2.jpg

506 ms

1.jpg

1.jpg

494 ms

17.jpg

17.jpg

496 ms

18.jpg

18.jpg

742 ms

intro-wbt-2.jpg

intro-wbt-2.jpg

742 ms

intro-rbt.jpg

intro-rbt.jpg

741 ms

intro-btsa.jpg

intro-btsa.jpg

747 ms

spacer-white.png

spacer-white.png

747 ms

fontawesome-webfont.woff

fontawesome-webfont.woff

97 ms

collect

collect

15 ms

Accessibility Review

businesstodaysa.co.za accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

businesstodaysa.co.za best practices score

83

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

SEO Factors

businesstodaysa.co.za SEO score

64

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Businesstodaysa.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 Businesstodaysa.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

businesstodaysa.co.za

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Business Today Sa. 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: