Report Summary

  • 14

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    26% of other websites

  • 87

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 67% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    84% of websites

childmag.co.za

Home - Child Magazine

Page Load Speed

15.6 sec in total

First Response

1.1 sec

Resources Loaded

14.1 sec

Page Rendered

333 ms

childmag.co.za screenshot

About Website

Click here to check amazing Child Mag content for South Africa. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about childmag.co.za

South Africa's largest parenting magazine. Making parenting easier and a lot more fun from pregnancy through to the early teens.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Childmag.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 1.1 sec and then it took 14.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 90% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

childmag.co.za performance score

14

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value11.7 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value18.3 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value24.0 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value6,040 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.098

90/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value31.6 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

childmag.co.za

1111 ms

www.childmag.co.za

8963 ms

book.css

219 ms

node.css

453 ms

poll.css

600 ms

Our browser made a total of 89 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 92% of them (82 requests) were addressed to the original Childmag.co.za, 3% (3 requests) were made to Ads.childmag.co.za and 2% (2 requests) were made to Assets.pinterest.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (9 sec) belongs to the original domain Childmag.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 460.7 kB (65%)

Content Size

705.5 kB

After Optimization

244.7 kB

In fact, the total size of Childmag.co.za main page is 705.5 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. 30% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 254.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 103.1 kB

  • Original 128.6 kB
  • After minification 123.2 kB
  • After compression 25.4 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. 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 103.1 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 6.5 kB

  • Original 118.3 kB
  • After minification 111.8 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. Child Mag images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-70%

Potential reduce by 179.1 kB

  • Original 254.7 kB
  • After minification 210.8 kB
  • After compression 75.7 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 179.1 kB or 70% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 172.0 kB

  • Original 203.8 kB
  • After minification 176.7 kB
  • After compression 31.8 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. Childmag.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 172.0 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 50 (57%)

Requests Now

87

After Optimization

37

The browser has sent 87 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Child Mag. 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 from 28 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

childmag.co.za accessibility score

87

Accessibility Issues

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.

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

<dl>'s do not contain only properly-ordered <dt> and <dd> groups, <script>, <template> or <div> elements.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

childmag.co.za best practices score

92

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

childmag.co.za SEO score

93

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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

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 Childmag.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 Childmag.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

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Child Mag. 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: