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southcoastnews.co.za

South Coast News - Everything Under The Sun

Page Load Speed

10.5 sec in total

First Response

1.9 sec

Resources Loaded

8.2 sec

Page Rendered

360 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Southcoastnews.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 1.9 sec and then it took 8.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 85% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

southcoastnews.co.za performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

www.southcoastnews.co.za

1948 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

790 ms

style.css

1092 ms

magnific-popup.css

567 ms

font-awesome.min.css

794 ms

Our browser made a total of 48 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 67% of them (32 requests) were addressed to the original Southcoastnews.co.za, 6% (3 requests) were made to Feedgrabbr.com and 6% (3 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.8 sec) belongs to the original domain Southcoastnews.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 320.4 kB (43%)

Content Size

741.6 kB

After Optimization

421.3 kB

In fact, the total size of Southcoastnews.co.za main page is 741.6 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. 35% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 310.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 62.6 kB

  • Original 74.1 kB
  • After minification 63.2 kB
  • After compression 11.5 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 10.9 kB, which is 15% of the original size. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 62.6 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 12.2 kB

  • Original 310.5 kB
  • After minification 298.3 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. South Coast News images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-64%

Potential reduce by 160.7 kB

  • Original 249.3 kB
  • After minification 249.2 kB
  • After compression 88.6 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 160.7 kB or 64% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 84.9 kB

  • Original 107.8 kB
  • After minification 103.8 kB
  • After compression 22.9 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. Southcoastnews.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 84.9 kB or 79% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 19 (44%)

Requests Now

43

After Optimization

24

The browser has sent 43 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of South Coast News. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 14 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

southcoastnews.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 Southcoastnews.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 Southcoastnews.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 South Coast News. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: