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Report Summary

  • 16

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    31% of other websites

  • 98

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 95% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 90

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    69% of websites

sowetan.co.za

SowetanLIVE

Page Load Speed

8.8 sec in total

First Response

205 ms

Resources Loaded

7.8 sec

Page Rendered

758 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Sowetan.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 205 ms 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

sowetan.co.za performance score

16

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.5 s

6/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value13.8 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value18.3 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value22,530 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.039

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value41.7 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

sowetan.co.za

205 ms

www.sowetanlive.co.za

1378 ms

style.css

1070 ms

colorbox_v2.css

533 ms

css

24 ms

Our browser made a total of 257 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Sowetan.co.za, 35% (91 requests) were made to Sowetanlive.co.za and 8% (20 requests) were made to Static.xx.fbcdn.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (4.1 sec) relates to the external source Sowetanlive.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.6 MB (56%)

Content Size

2.8 MB

After Optimization

1.2 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Sowetan.co.za main page is 2.8 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. 80% 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. Javascripts take 1.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 483.4 kB

  • Original 561.8 kB
  • After minification 326.5 kB
  • After compression 78.4 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 235.3 kB, which is 42% 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 483.4 kB or 86% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 33.4 kB

  • Original 756.4 kB
  • After minification 723.0 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. Sowetan images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-69%

Potential reduce by 939.8 kB

  • Original 1.4 MB
  • After minification 1.3 MB
  • After compression 414.8 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 939.8 kB or 69% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 130.6 kB

  • Original 151.5 kB
  • After minification 114.2 kB
  • After compression 20.8 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. Sowetan.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 130.6 kB or 86% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 111 (46%)

Requests Now

240

After Optimization

129

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 240 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Sowetan. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 59 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 11 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

sowetan.co.za

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Accessibility Review

sowetan.co.za accessibility score

98

Accessibility Issues

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

sowetan.co.za best practices score

67

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

High

Requests the geolocation permission on page load

High

Includes front-end JavaScript libraries with known security vulnerabilities

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

sowetan.co.za SEO score

90

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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 Sowetan.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 Sowetan.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

sowetan.co.za

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