Report Summary

  • 15

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    27% of other websites

  • 73

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 39% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 71

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    30% of websites

new.discovery.co.za

Medical Aid, Bank, Insurance, Invest & Vitality - Discovery

Page Load Speed

8.4 sec in total

First Response

1.2 sec

Resources Loaded

6.8 sec

Page Rendered

363 ms

new.discovery.co.za screenshot

About Website

Visit new.discovery.co.za now to see the best up-to-date New Discovery content for South Africa and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about new.discovery.co.za

Discovery offers award-winning products - Medical Aid Administration, Car and Life Insurance, Bank Accounts and Investments, all with Vitality rewards.

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Key Findings

We analyzed New.discovery.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 1.2 sec and then it took 7.2 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

new.discovery.co.za performance score

15

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.6 s

5/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.9 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value47.7 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value98,420 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.056

98/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value128.0 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

new.discovery.co.za

1202 ms

2423 ms

discovery-2.0.css

58 ms

ruxitagentjs_ICA27Vdefghijmoqrvx_10249220905100923.js

91 ms

gtm.js

171 ms

Our browser made a total of 111 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original New.discovery.co.za, 94% (104 requests) were made to Discovery.co.za and 2% (2 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.4 sec) relates to the external source Discovery.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 180.9 kB (26%)

Content Size

703.1 kB

After Optimization

522.1 kB

In fact, the total size of New.discovery.co.za main page is 703.1 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. 85% 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. Javascripts take 293.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-89%

Potential reduce by 173.8 kB

  • Original 194.9 kB
  • After minification 131.3 kB
  • After compression 21.1 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 63.6 kB, which is 33% 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 173.8 kB or 89% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 12.0 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.

JavaScript Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 5.7 kB

  • Original 293.4 kB
  • After minification 293.3 kB
  • After compression 287.7 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 1.5 kB

  • Original 202.9 kB
  • After minification 202.8 kB
  • After compression 201.4 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. New.discovery.co.za has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 52 (48%)

Requests Now

109

After Optimization

57

The browser has sent 109 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of New Discovery. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 46 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 8 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

new.discovery.co.za accessibility score

73

Accessibility Issues

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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

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

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

Best Practices

new.discovery.co.za best practices score

75

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

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

new.discovery.co.za SEO score

71

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

High

Links do not have descriptive text

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Crawling and Indexing

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

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

High

robots.txt is not valid

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise New.discovery.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 New.discovery.co.za main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

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