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sabc2.co.za

Home - SABC 2

Page Load Speed

36.9 sec in total

First Response

905 ms

Resources Loaded

35.3 sec

Page Rendered

661 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Sabc2.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 905 ms and then it took 36 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 95% of websites can load faster. Unfortunately, there were 2 request timeouts, which can generally increase the web page load time, as the browser stays idle while waiting for website response.

Performance Metrics

sabc2.co.za performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

sabc2.co.za

905 ms

sabc2.co.za

1239 ms

298 ms

3236 ms

js

63 ms

Our browser made a total of 324 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 43% of them (138 requests) were addressed to the original Sabc2.co.za, 5% (17 requests) were made to Assets.alicdn.com and 4% (13 requests) were made to Ae01.alicdn.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (20.5 sec) relates to the external source Net-a-porter.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 3.1 MB (29%)

Content Size

10.4 MB

After Optimization

7.3 MB

In fact, the total size of Sabc2.co.za main page is 10.4 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. 85% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Images take 5.5 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 226.7 kB

  • Original 267.6 kB
  • After minification 253.4 kB
  • After compression 40.9 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 226.7 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 78.1 kB

  • Original 5.5 MB
  • After minification 5.4 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. SABC 2 images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-59%

Potential reduce by 2.2 MB

  • Original 3.7 MB
  • After minification 3.7 MB
  • After compression 1.5 MB

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 2.2 MB or 59% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-61%

Potential reduce by 557.0 kB

  • Original 915.1 kB
  • After minification 904.5 kB
  • After compression 358.1 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. Sabc2.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 557.0 kB or 61% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 170 (65%)

Requests Now

262

After Optimization

92

The browser has sent 262 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of SABC 2. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 71 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 78 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

sabc2.co.za SEO score

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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 Sabc2.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 Sabc2.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 SABC 2. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: