Report Summary

  • 15

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    27% of other websites

  • 90

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 75% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    75% of websites

trailmag.co.za

South African trail running lifestyle, events, products, and news

Page Load Speed

18.3 sec in total

First Response

4.6 sec

Resources Loaded

13 sec

Page Rendered

629 ms

trailmag.co.za screenshot

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Trailmag.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 4.6 sec and then it took 13.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 90% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

trailmag.co.za performance score

15

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.3 s

3/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value13.6 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value16.2 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value16,410 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.064

97/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value26.1 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

trailmag.co.za

4619 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

538 ms

aqpb-view.css

546 ms

aqpb-view-media.css

577 ms

style.css

573 ms

Our browser made a total of 204 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 62% of them (126 requests) were addressed to the original Trailmag.co.za, 4% (9 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 4% (8 requests) were made to Apis.google.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (4.6 sec) belongs to the original domain Trailmag.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.5 MB (30%)

Content Size

5.2 MB

After Optimization

3.6 MB

In fact, the total size of Trailmag.co.za main page is 5.2 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. 85% 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 3.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 192.0 kB

  • Original 235.6 kB
  • After minification 232.6 kB
  • After compression 43.6 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 192.0 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 6.6 kB

  • Original 3.2 MB
  • After minification 3.2 MB

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. Trail Mag images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-69%

Potential reduce by 752.0 kB

  • Original 1.1 MB
  • After minification 1.1 MB
  • After compression 341.4 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 752.0 kB or 69% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 580.1 kB

  • Original 666.2 kB
  • After minification 503.8 kB
  • After compression 86.1 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. Trailmag.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 580.1 kB or 87% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 96 (50%)

Requests Now

191

After Optimization

95

The browser has sent 191 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Trail Mag. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 66 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 23 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

trailmag.co.za accessibility score

90

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

trailmag.co.za best practices score

75

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

trailmag.co.za SEO score

92

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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 Trailmag.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 Trailmag.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 Trail Mag. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: