Report Summary

  • 9

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    23% of other websites

  • 77

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 45% of websites

  • 0

    Best Practices

  • 75

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    32% of websites

hn9.co.za

HN9 | SABC2 | Youth Entertainment Show | South Africa | Home

Page Load Speed

10.2 sec in total

First Response

725 ms

Resources Loaded

9.1 sec

Page Rendered

348 ms

hn9.co.za screenshot

About Website

Click here to check amazing HN9 content for South Africa. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about hn9.co.za

HN9 is South Africa’s Flagship Youth Entertainment Show broadcast live daily on SABC2. HN9 provides interactive entertainment to the South African youth.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Hn9.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 725 ms and then it took 9.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 85% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

hn9.co.za performance score

9

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.0 s

3/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value15.0 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value12.4 s

3/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,670 ms

11/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.347

32/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value16.3 s

5/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

hn9.co.za

725 ms

www.hn9.co.za

2397 ms

8dbc228c9e5f57f92ca75d31677c4d51_1406050480.css

907 ms

879b55a2e4bd169f59cf132107beb7e9_1402393263.js

926 ms

jquery-migrate-1.2.1.js

23 ms

Our browser made a total of 180 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 46% of them (82 requests) were addressed to the original Hn9.co.za, 16% (29 requests) were made to Static.xx.fbcdn.net and 8% (15 requests) were made to Pbs.twimg.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.9 sec) belongs to the original domain Hn9.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 2.0 MB (27%)

Content Size

7.4 MB

After Optimization

5.4 MB

In fact, the total size of Hn9.co.za main page is 7.4 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 4.8 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 81.5 kB

  • Original 98.8 kB
  • After minification 78.8 kB
  • After compression 17.3 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 20.0 kB, which is 20% 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 81.5 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 125.8 kB

  • Original 4.8 MB
  • After minification 4.6 MB

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. HN9 images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-68%

Potential reduce by 1.3 MB

  • Original 1.9 MB
  • After minification 1.9 MB
  • After compression 623.4 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 1.3 MB or 68% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 486.5 kB

  • Original 571.0 kB
  • After minification 469.0 kB
  • After compression 84.5 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. Hn9.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 486.5 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 56 (33%)

Requests Now

170

After Optimization

114

The browser has sent 170 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of HN9. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 31 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 9 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

hn9.co.za accessibility score

77

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

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

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

SEO Factors

hn9.co.za SEO score

75

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

High

robots.txt is not valid

Content Best Practices

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

Impact

Issue

High

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/).

Impact

Issue

High

Document uses legible font sizes

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

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 Hn9.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 Hn9.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 HN9. 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: