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Report Summary

  • 24

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    43% of other websites

  • 96

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 88% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 97

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    91% of websites

dailysun.co.za

Daily Sun brings you South African breaking news and features from Sassa to celebrities

Page Load Speed

6.7 sec in total

First Response

29 ms

Resources Loaded

5.8 sec

Page Rendered

933 ms

dailysun.co.za screenshot

About Website

Click here to check amazing Daily Sun content for South Africa. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about dailysun.co.za

The hottest breaking local news brought to you by South Africa's favourite daily newspaper, Daily Sun.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Dailysun.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 29 ms and then it took 6.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 80% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

dailysun.co.za performance score

24

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.0 s

84/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.6 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.6 s

25/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,590 ms

1/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.109

87/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value20.4 s

2/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

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29 ms

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47 ms

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47 ms

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30 ms

Our browser made a total of 120 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Dailysun.co.za, 46% (55 requests) were made to Cdn.24.co.za and 28% (34 requests) were made to Snl24.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (5.3 sec) relates to the external source Cdn.24.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 395.0 kB (24%)

Content Size

1.7 MB

After Optimization

1.3 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Dailysun.co.za main page is 1.7 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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 877.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 247.4 kB

  • Original 288.3 kB
  • After minification 250.1 kB
  • After compression 40.9 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 38.2 kB, which is 13% 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 247.4 kB or 86% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 72.8 kB

  • Original 877.7 kB
  • After minification 804.9 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. Daily Sun images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-17%

Potential reduce by 74.6 kB

  • Original 446.4 kB
  • After minification 446.4 kB
  • After compression 371.8 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 74.6 kB or 17% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 191 B

  • Original 57.5 kB
  • After minification 57.5 kB
  • After compression 57.3 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. Dailysun.co.za has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 36 (32%)

Requests Now

113

After Optimization

77

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 113 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Daily Sun. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 20 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 11 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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Accessibility Review

dailysun.co.za accessibility score

96

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

[id] attributes on active, focusable elements are not unique

Best Practices

dailysun.co.za best practices score

75

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

High

Requests the geolocation permission on page load

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

dailysun.co.za SEO score

97

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 Dailysun.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 Dailysun.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

dailysun.co.za

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of Daily Sun. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: