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Report Summary

  • 48

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    66% of other websites

  • 98

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 94% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    83% of websites

independentmedia.co.za

Independent Media | South Africa's leading multi-platform production company

Page Load Speed

1.2 sec in total

First Response

193 ms

Resources Loaded

922 ms

Page Rendered

132 ms

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About Website

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

Independent Media is a leading South African multi-platform content company. Our stable boasts 20 of the country’s most prominent print and digital news offerings.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Independentmedia.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 193 ms and then it took 1.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 20% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

independentmedia.co.za performance score

48

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.6 s

33/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value10.0 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.5 s

72/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value160 ms

94/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.307

38/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value8.2 s

40/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

independentmedia.co.za

193 ms

www.independentmedia.co.za

184 ms

www.independentmedia.co.za

302 ms

gtm.js

83 ms

css

47 ms

Our browser made a total of 65 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 80% of them (52 requests) were addressed to the original Independentmedia.co.za, 11% (7 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 6% (4 requests) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (302 ms) belongs to the original domain Independentmedia.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 218.8 kB (9%)

Content Size

2.4 MB

After Optimization

2.2 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Independentmedia.co.za main page is 2.4 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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 2.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 91.0 kB

  • Original 108.1 kB
  • After minification 106.9 kB
  • After compression 17.1 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 91.0 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 117.6 kB

  • Original 2.1 MB
  • After minification 2.0 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. Independent Media images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 4.0 kB

  • Original 114.0 kB
  • After minification 113.9 kB
  • After compression 109.9 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

-8%

Potential reduce by 6.1 kB

  • Original 81.7 kB
  • After minification 81.7 kB
  • After compression 75.5 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. Independentmedia.co.za has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 43 (78%)

Requests Now

55

After Optimization

12

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 55 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Independent Media. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 21 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 24 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

independentmedia.co.za

independentmedia.co.za

193 ms

www.independentmedia.co.za

www.independentmedia.co.za

184 ms

www.independentmedia.co.za

www.independentmedia.co.za

302 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

83 ms

css

css

47 ms

bootstrap_tab.min.css

bootstrap_tab.min.css

42 ms

bootstrap_dropdown.min.css

bootstrap_dropdown.min.css

40 ms

res_tab_icon.css

res_tab_icon.css

40 ms

styles.css

styles.css

39 ms

animate.min.css

animate.min.css

38 ms

wp-show-posts-min.css

wp-show-posts-min.css

41 ms

style.css

style.css

56 ms

custom-styles.css

custom-styles.css

59 ms

css

css

77 ms

icon

icon

107 ms

frontend.min.css

frontend.min.css

61 ms

feedzy-rss-feeds.css

feedzy-rss-feeds.css

59 ms

elementor-icons.min.css

elementor-icons.min.css

74 ms

swiper.min.css

swiper.min.css

106 ms

post-1914.css

post-1914.css

105 ms

all.min.css

all.min.css

101 ms

v4-shims.min.css

v4-shims.min.css

99 ms

global.css

global.css

94 ms

general.min.css

general.min.css

108 ms

css

css

107 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

113 ms

jquery-migrate.min.js

jquery-migrate.min.js

107 ms

main.js

main.js

112 ms

v4-shims.min.js

v4-shims.min.js

125 ms

verification.js

verification.js

125 ms

flexslider.css

flexslider.css

46 ms

public.css

public.css

47 ms

public.css

public.css

46 ms

index.js

index.js

52 ms

index.js

index.js

51 ms

front-scripts.js

front-scripts.js

51 ms

bootstrap-dropdown.js

bootstrap-dropdown.js

53 ms

bootstrap-tab.js

bootstrap-tab.js

53 ms

bootstrap-tabdrop.js

bootstrap-tabdrop.js

52 ms

general.min.js

general.min.js

56 ms

jquery.flexslider.min.js

jquery.flexslider.min.js

55 ms

script.min.js

script.min.js

57 ms

jQuery.easing.min.js

jQuery.easing.min.js

56 ms

webpack.runtime.min.js

webpack.runtime.min.js

57 ms

frontend-modules.min.js

frontend-modules.min.js

58 ms

waypoints.min.js

waypoints.min.js

59 ms

core.min.js

core.min.js

58 ms

frontend.min.js

frontend.min.js

59 ms

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proper-logo.png

20 ms

newspaper.png

newspaper.png

21 ms

magazine.png

magazine.png

22 ms

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30 ms

Slider_DNA.png

Slider_DNA.png

32 ms

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good.jpg

36 ms

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15 ms

Accessibility Review

independentmedia.co.za accessibility score

98

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

independentmedia.co.za best practices score

83

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

independentmedia.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 Independentmedia.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 Independentmedia.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

independentmedia.co.za

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