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Visit thetimes.co.zaWe analyzed Thetimes.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 190 ms and then it took 13.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 90% of websites can load faster.
thetimes.co.za performance score
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Our browser made a total of 271 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Thetimes.co.za, 68% (184 requests) were made to Timeslive.co.za and 4% (12 requests) were made to Static.xx.fbcdn.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (3.1 sec) relates to the external source Timeslive.co.za.
Page size can be reduced by 1.0 MB (39%)
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In fact, the total size of Thetimes.co.za main page is 2.7 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.
Potential reduce by 376.0 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 58.3 kB, which is 12% 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 376.0 kB or 80% of the original size.
Potential reduce by 131.7 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. Thetimes images are well optimized though.
Potential reduce by 417.8 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 417.8 kB or 60% of the original size.
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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. Thetimes.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 120.8 kB or 84% of the original size.
Number of requests can be reduced by 86 (32%)
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The browser has sent 265 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Thetimes. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 47 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 15 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.
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thetimes.co.za accessibility score
Contrast
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Background and foreground colors do not have a sufficient contrast ratio.
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[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.
thetimes.co.za best practices score
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Detected JavaScript libraries
Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript
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Links are not crawlable
Mobile Friendly
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Document uses legible font sizes
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