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Report Summary

  • 26

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    45% of other websites

  • 74

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 40% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 75

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    32% of websites

themercury.co.za

The Mercury | Business, News, Politics, Sport and Lifestyle Trends

Page Load Speed

5.6 sec in total

First Response

1.1 sec

Resources Loaded

3.9 sec

Page Rendered

721 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Themercury.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 1.1 sec and then it took 4.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 70% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

themercury.co.za performance score

26

Measured Metrics

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value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.6 s

65/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.5 s

9/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.2 s

13/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,060 ms

2/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.009

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value19.1 s

3/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

themercury.co.za

1074 ms

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57 ms

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Our browser made a total of 118 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 33% of them (39 requests) were addressed to the original Themercury.co.za, 47% (56 requests) were made to Image-prod.iol.co.za and 3% (3 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.4 sec) relates to the external source Image-prod.iol.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 564.6 kB (55%)

Content Size

1.0 MB

After Optimization

454.7 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Themercury.co.za main page is 1.0 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. 75% 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 570.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 317.6 kB

  • Original 382.3 kB
  • After minification 379.2 kB
  • After compression 64.7 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 317.6 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 30 B

  • Original 66.1 kB
  • After minification 66.1 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. The Mercury images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-43%

Potential reduce by 246.8 kB

  • Original 570.4 kB
  • After minification 570.4 kB
  • After compression 323.6 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 246.8 kB or 43% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-15%

Potential reduce by 56 B

  • Original 375 B
  • After minification 375 B
  • After compression 319 B

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. Themercury.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 56 B or 15% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 50 (43%)

Requests Now

117

After Optimization

67

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 117 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of The Mercury. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 25 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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Accessibility Review

themercury.co.za accessibility score

74

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

[aria-*] attributes do not match their roles

High

[aria-hidden="true"] elements contain focusable descendents

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Lists do not contain only <li> elements and script supporting elements (<script> and <template>).

Best Practices

themercury.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

themercury.co.za SEO score

75

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

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Themercury.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 Themercury.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

themercury.co.za

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of The Mercury. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: