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Report Summary

  • 20

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    37% of other websites

  • 96

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 89% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    95% of websites

win.news24.com

News24 | South Africa's leading source of trusted news, opinion and insight for 25 years

Page Load Speed

3.7 sec in total

First Response

933 ms

Resources Loaded

2.6 sec

Page Rendered

135 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Win.news24.com page load time and found that the first response time was 933 ms and then it took 2.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

win.news24.com performance score

20

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.8 s

57/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value13.0 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value31.0 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value74,700 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.07

96/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value97.1 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

win.news24.com

933 ms

bootstrap.min.css

877 ms

bootstrap-theme.min.css

656 ms

competition.min.css

440 ms

jquery-1.10.2.min.js

1098 ms

Our browser made a total of 33 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 48% of them (16 requests) were addressed to the original Win.news24.com, 9% (3 requests) were made to S.effectivemeasure.net and 6% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.1 sec) belongs to the original domain Win.news24.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 400.4 kB (70%)

Content Size

572.7 kB

After Optimization

172.2 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Win.news24.com main page is 572.7 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. 35% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 261.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-74%

Potential reduce by 13.3 kB

  • Original 18.0 kB
  • After minification 17.5 kB
  • After compression 4.7 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 13.3 kB or 74% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 115.2 kB

  • Original 139.5 kB
  • After minification 24.3 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. Obviously, Win News24 needs image optimization as it can save up to 115.2 kB or 83% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-54%

Potential reduce by 142.4 kB

  • Original 261.3 kB
  • After minification 249.1 kB
  • After compression 119.0 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 142.4 kB or 54% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 129.6 kB

  • Original 153.9 kB
  • After minification 153.8 kB
  • After compression 24.3 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. Win.news24.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 129.6 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 12 (38%)

Requests Now

32

After Optimization

20

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 32 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Win News24. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 13 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

win.news24.com

win.news24.com

933 ms

bootstrap.min.css

bootstrap.min.css

877 ms

bootstrap-theme.min.css

bootstrap-theme.min.css

656 ms

competition.min.css

competition.min.css

440 ms

jquery-1.10.2.min.js

jquery-1.10.2.min.js

1098 ms

jquery.validate.min.js

jquery.validate.min.js

666 ms

jquery.validate.unobtrusive.js

jquery.validate.unobtrusive.js

662 ms

jquery.placeholder.min.js

jquery.placeholder.min.js

657 ms

modernizr-2.8.3.min.js

modernizr-2.8.3.min.js

873 ms

bootstrap.min.js

bootstrap.min.js

1133 ms

ga.js

ga.js

16 ms

cx.js

cx.js

15 ms

logo_News24.png

logo_News24.png

442 ms

banner_1.jpg

banner_1.jpg

668 ms

logo_24.png

logo_24.png

246 ms

logo_news24.png

logo_news24.png

880 ms

logo_netwerk24.png

logo_netwerk24.png

418 ms

logo_careers24.png

logo_careers24.png

417 ms

DFPAudiencePixel;ord=993462090846.1511;dc_seg=110360290

DFPAudiencePixel;ord=993462090846.1511;dc_seg=110360290

20 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

10 ms

activity;xsp=224950;ord=9470106204971.672

activity;xsp=224950;ord=9470106204971.672

22 ms

p1.html

p1.html

39 ms

p1.js

p1.js

52 ms

rep.gif

rep.gif

92 ms

em.js

em.js

166 ms

sdk.js

sdk.js

268 ms

widgets.js

widgets.js

12 ms

frame_2.3.3.html

frame_2.3.3.html

139 ms

174 ms

xd_arbiter.php

xd_arbiter.php

212 ms

xd_arbiter.php

xd_arbiter.php

417 ms

p

p

84 ms

video.min.js

video.min.js

70 ms

Accessibility Review

win.news24.com accessibility score

96

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.

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

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

Best Practices

win.news24.com 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

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

win.news24.com SEO score

100

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Win.news24.com 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 Win.news24.com 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

win.news24.com

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of Win News24. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: