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Visit citizen.co.zaWe analyzed Citizen.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 45 ms and then it took 3.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 55% of websites can load faster.
citizen.co.za performance score
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Our browser made a total of 126 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 11% of them (14 requests) were addressed to the original Citizen.co.za, 39% (49 requests) were made to Media.citizen.co.za and 26% (33 requests) were made to Tradingview-widget.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.5 sec) relates to the external source Media.citizen.co.za.
Page size can be reduced by 254.2 kB (23%)
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In fact, the total size of Citizen.co.za main page is 1.1 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. 80% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Images take 614.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.
Potential reduce by 236.1 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 236.1 kB or 87% of the original size.
Potential reduce by 15.1 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. Citizen images are well optimized though.
Potential reduce by 3.1 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.
Number of requests can be reduced by 56 (49%)
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The browser has sent 114 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Citizen. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 41 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 17 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.
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citizen.co.za accessibility score
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
Buttons do not have an accessible name
<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title
Image elements do not have [alt] attributes
Links do not have a discernible name
Contrast
These are opportunities to improve the legibility of your content.
Impact
Issue
Background and foreground colors do not have a sufficient contrast ratio.
citizen.co.za best practices score
Trust and Safety
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Does not use HTTPS
Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks
User Experience
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Issue
Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio
General
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Detected JavaScript libraries
Browser errors were logged to the console
Page has valid source maps
citizen.co.za SEO score
Content Best Practices
Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.
Impact
Issue
Image elements do not have [alt] attributes
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/).
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Document uses legible font sizes
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UTF-8
Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Citizen.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 Citizen.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.
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Open Graph data is detected on the main page of Citizen. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: