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Report Summary

  • 51

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    69% of other websites

  • 66

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 31% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 69

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    28% of websites

noordwester.co.za

North West Newspapers

Page Load Speed

3.8 sec in total

First Response

714 ms

Resources Loaded

2.5 sec

Page Rendered

654 ms

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About Website

Visit noordwester.co.za now to see the best up-to-date Noord West Er content and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about noordwester.co.za

North West Newspapers is a powerful brand that owns 10 newspapers in North West and Northern Cape. We strive to bring the community together with unique, individual local newspapers

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Key Findings

We analyzed Noordwester.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 714 ms and then it took 3.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 55% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

noordwester.co.za performance score

51

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.5 s

66/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value10.3 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.7 s

69/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value540 ms

55/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.023

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value6.6 s

57/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

noordwester.co.za

714 ms

northwestnewspapers.co.za

558 ms

adsbygoogle.js

107 ms

style.css

183 ms

welcome.png

324 ms

Our browser made a total of 9 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 11% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Noordwester.co.za, 44% (4 requests) were made to Northwestnewspapers.co.za and 22% (2 requests) were made to Pagead2.googlesyndication.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.2 sec) relates to the external source Northwestnewspapers.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 10.7 kB (1%)

Content Size

1.3 MB

After Optimization

1.3 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript

In fact, the total size of Noordwester.co.za main page is 1.3 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. Only 10% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-64%

Potential reduce by 5.0 kB

  • Original 7.7 kB
  • After minification 7.2 kB
  • After compression 2.7 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 5.0 kB or 64% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 5.7 kB

  • Original 1.1 MB
  • After minification 1.0 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. Noord West Er images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 92 B

  • Original 243.9 kB
  • After minification 243.9 kB
  • After compression 243.8 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

6

After Optimization

6

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript

The browser has sent 6 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Noord West Er. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Network Requests Diagram

noordwester.co.za

noordwester.co.za

714 ms

northwestnewspapers.co.za

northwestnewspapers.co.za

558 ms

adsbygoogle.js

adsbygoogle.js

107 ms

style.css

style.css

183 ms

welcome.png

welcome.png

324 ms

front.jpg

front.jpg

1177 ms

show_ads_impl.js

show_ads_impl.js

372 ms

zrt_lookup.html

zrt_lookup.html

47 ms

ads

ads

140 ms

Accessibility Review

noordwester.co.za accessibility score

66

Accessibility Issues

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

Best Practices

noordwester.co.za best practices score

75

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

noordwester.co.za SEO score

69

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

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 Noordwester.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 Noordwester.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

noordwester.co.za

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Noord West Er. 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: