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Report Summary

  • 14

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    26% of other websites

  • 71

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 36% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 76

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    35% of websites

todaysdigital.co.za

Today's Digital News: Digital Trends, News, Tips & Guides

Page Load Speed

10.6 sec in total

First Response

1.9 sec

Resources Loaded

8.4 sec

Page Rendered

343 ms

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About Website

Welcome to todaysdigital.co.za homepage info - get ready to check Today S Digital best content right away, or after learning these important things about todaysdigital.co.za

Today's Digital is your one stop site for all things digital, from tips, to latest news and guides. Catch all your favourite news from your favourite brands and Industry leaders both local and In...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Todaysdigital.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 1.9 sec and then it took 8.8 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

todaysdigital.co.za performance score

14

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.6 s

5/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value10.5 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value15.0 s

1/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,140 ms

6/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.153

75/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value17.3 s

4/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.todaysdigital.co.za

1859 ms

layerslider.css

615 ms

style.min.css

1218 ms

styles.css

920 ms

cookie-law-info-public.css

919 ms

Our browser made a total of 105 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 66% of them (69 requests) were addressed to the original Todaysdigital.co.za, 14% (15 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 5% (5 requests) were made to Gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.5 sec) belongs to the original domain Todaysdigital.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 115.6 kB (11%)

Content Size

1.0 MB

After Optimization

927.3 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Todaysdigital.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. Images take 600.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 113.2 kB

  • Original 140.2 kB
  • After minification 135.6 kB
  • After compression 27.1 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 113.2 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 43 B

  • Original 600.7 kB
  • After minification 600.6 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. Today S Digital images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 2.4 kB

  • Original 259.9 kB
  • After minification 259.9 kB
  • After compression 257.6 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 42.0 kB
  • After minification 42.0 kB
  • After compression 42.0 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. Todaysdigital.co.za has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 64 (74%)

Requests Now

86

After Optimization

22

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 86 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Today S Digital. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 43 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 23 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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www.todaysdigital.co.za

1859 ms

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Accessibility Review

todaysdigital.co.za accessibility score

71

Accessibility Issues

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

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best practices

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

todaysdigital.co.za best practices score

75

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

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

SEO Factors

todaysdigital.co.za SEO score

76

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 Todaysdigital.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 Todaysdigital.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

todaysdigital.co.za

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