Report Summary

  • 31

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    51% of other websites

  • 87

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 67% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    84% of websites

joynews.co.za

News - JOY! News

Page Load Speed

18.5 sec in total

First Response

3.3 sec

Resources Loaded

14.1 sec

Page Rendered

1.1 sec

joynews.co.za screenshot

About Website

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

JOY! News is a Christian news portal that seeks to educate and inform believers of news and current events from a Christian perspective, furthering the Biblical worldview.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Joynews.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 3.3 sec and then it took 15.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 90% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

joynews.co.za performance score

31

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.1 s

3/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.7 s

8/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value14.2 s

1/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value620 ms

48/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.077

95/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value18.8 s

3/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

joynews.co.za

3304 ms

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6 ms

style.min.css

1463 ms

autoptimize_single_6d20d48c2570fdf19d5dee177ba86052.php

1101 ms

Our browser made a total of 181 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 69% of them (124 requests) were addressed to the original Joynews.co.za, 22% (40 requests) were made to and 2% (3 requests) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (3.3 sec) belongs to the original domain Joynews.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 324.5 kB (13%)

Content Size

2.4 MB

After Optimization

2.1 MB

In fact, the total size of Joynews.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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.9 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 322.4 kB

  • Original 384.3 kB
  • After minification 384.3 kB
  • After compression 61.9 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. 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 322.4 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 602 B

  • Original 1.9 MB
  • After minification 1.9 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. JOY News images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 1.4 kB

  • Original 123.3 kB
  • After minification 123.3 kB
  • After compression 121.9 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

-0%

Potential reduce by 129 B

  • Original 66.1 kB
  • After minification 66.1 kB
  • After compression 66.0 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. Joynews.co.za has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 38 (28%)

Requests Now

136

After Optimization

98

The browser has sent 136 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of JOY News. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 23 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 17 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

joynews.co.za accessibility score

87

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

joynews.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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

joynews.co.za SEO score

93

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

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

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 Joynews.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 Joynews.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 data is detected on the main page of JOY News. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: