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Report Summary

  • 31

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    51% of other websites

  • 96

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 89% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 99

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    93% of websites

parent24.co.za

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

Page Load Speed

9.8 sec in total

First Response

1.7 sec

Resources Loaded

7.6 sec

Page Rendered

494 ms

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About Website

Visit parent24.co.za now to see the best up-to-date Parent 24 content and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about parent24.co.za

News24 is South Africa's leading source of trusted news, opinion, business, sport and lifestyle content.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Parent24.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 1.7 sec and then it took 8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 85% of websites can load faster. This domain responded with an error, which can significantly jeopardize Parent24.co.za rating and web reputation

Performance Metrics

parent24.co.za performance score

31

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.5 s

69/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.4 s

4/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.2 s

30/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,510 ms

14/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.047

99/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value12.9 s

13/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

parent24.co.za

1713 ms

www.parent24.com

1582 ms

css

28 ms

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667 ms

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1637 ms

Our browser made a total of 211 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Parent24.co.za, 35% (74 requests) were made to Parent24.com and 20% (42 requests) were made to Cdn.24.co.za. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.4 sec) relates to the external source Media.otd.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.1 MB (43%)

Content Size

2.6 MB

After Optimization

1.5 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Parent24.co.za main page is 2.6 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 291.3 kB

  • Original 364.7 kB
  • After minification 342.6 kB
  • After compression 73.4 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 291.3 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 95.5 kB

  • Original 1.2 MB
  • After minification 1.1 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. Parent 24 images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-66%

Potential reduce by 612.4 kB

  • Original 923.4 kB
  • After minification 851.8 kB
  • After compression 311.1 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 612.4 kB or 66% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 109.5 kB

  • Original 129.9 kB
  • After minification 125.4 kB
  • After compression 20.4 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. Parent24.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 109.5 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 76 (37%)

Requests Now

204

After Optimization

128

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 204 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Parent 24. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 38 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 8 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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Accessibility Review

parent24.co.za 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

parent24.co.za best practices score

92

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

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

parent24.co.za SEO score

99

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

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 Parent24.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 Parent24.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

parent24.co.za

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of Parent 24. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: