Report Summary

  • 70

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    81% of other websites

  • 95

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 86% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 84

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    52% of websites

pressportal.co.za

MyPressportal - Free press releases South Africa, RSS

Page Load Speed

1.8 sec in total

First Response

94 ms

Resources Loaded

1.3 sec

Page Rendered

436 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Pressportal.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 94 ms and then it took 1.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 35% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

pressportal.co.za performance score

70

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.4 s

71/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.2 s

5/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.8 s

67/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value40 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.002

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value2.8 s

97/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

pressportal.co.za

94 ms

pressportal.co.za

748 ms

bootstrap.min.css

62 ms

all.min.css

73 ms

engagebox.css

38 ms

Our browser made a total of 36 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 47% of them (17 requests) were addressed to the original Pressportal.co.za, 25% (9 requests) were made to Wsrv.nl and 17% (6 requests) were made to Cdnjs.cloudflare.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (748 ms) belongs to the original domain Pressportal.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 228.6 kB (24%)

Content Size

953.6 kB

After Optimization

724.9 kB

In fact, the total size of Pressportal.co.za main page is 953.6 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. 45% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 820.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 38.5 kB

  • Original 48.9 kB
  • After minification 48.9 kB
  • After compression 10.4 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 38.5 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-23%

Potential reduce by 188.2 kB

  • Original 820.1 kB
  • After minification 631.9 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, Pressportal needs image optimization as it can save up to 188.2 kB or 23% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 1.2 kB

  • Original 64.8 kB
  • After minification 64.8 kB
  • After compression 63.6 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

-4%

Potential reduce by 743 B

  • Original 19.8 kB
  • After minification 19.8 kB
  • After compression 19.0 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. Pressportal.co.za has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 17 (55%)

Requests Now

31

After Optimization

14

The browser has sent 31 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Pressportal. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 11 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 8 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

pressportal.co.za accessibility score

95

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

pressportal.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

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

pressportal.co.za SEO score

84

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

Links do not have descriptive text

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

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Pressportal.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 Pressportal.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 Pressportal. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: