Report Summary

  • 13

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    25% of other websites

  • 88

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 69% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    75% of websites

rollingstone.co.za

Rolling Stone South Africa | Top News in Music Industry

Page Load Speed

518 ms in total

First Response

201 ms

Resources Loaded

203 ms

Page Rendered

114 ms

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About Website

Click here to check amazing Rolling Stone content for United States. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about rollingstone.co.za

Welcome to the Rolling Stone South Africa website, the best online portal for top news in the music industry, and the latest headlines from the showbiz world.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Rollingstone.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 201 ms and then it took 317 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is an excellent result, as only a small number of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

rollingstone.co.za performance score

13

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value10.5 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value10.8 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value18.4 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,000 ms

27/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.378

28/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value18.1 s

3/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

rollingstone.co.za

201 ms

Our browser made a total of 1 request to load all elements on the main page. We found that all of those requests were addressed to Rollingstone.co.za and no external sources were called. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (201 ms) belongs to the original domain Rollingstone.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 9 B (10%)

Content Size

92 B

After Optimization

83 B

In fact, the total size of Rollingstone.co.za main page is 92 B. This result falls within the top 5000 of lightweight and thus fast loading web pages. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. HTML takes 92 B which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-10%

Potential reduce by 9 B

  • Original 92 B
  • After minification 92 B
  • After compression 83 B

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. This web page is already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

0

After Optimization

0

Besides the initial HTML request, no CSS, Javascripts, AJAX or image files were requested in the course of web page rendering.

Accessibility Review

rollingstone.co.za accessibility score

88

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

rollingstone.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

rollingstone.co.za SEO score

92

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    N/A

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Rollingstone.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 Rollingstone.co.za main page’s claimed encoding is . Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Rolling Stone. 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: