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waternews.co.za

Water News - Sharing Information about Water in South Africa - Water News

Page Load Speed

14.2 sec in total

First Response

3.8 sec

Resources Loaded

9.4 sec

Page Rendered

1 sec

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About Website

Visit waternews.co.za now to see the best up-to-date Water News content and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about waternews.co.za

Water News believes that everyone need to know the state of water in the country. Read the latest WATER NEWS, Report your WATER NEWS, view the WATER MAP

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Key Findings

We analyzed Waternews.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 3.8 sec and then it took 10.4 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

waternews.co.za performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

waternews.co.za

3778 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

600 ms

dashicons.min.css

900 ms

wunderground.css

603 ms

layerslider.css

608 ms

Our browser made a total of 83 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 73% of them (61 requests) were addressed to the original Waternews.co.za, 7% (6 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 4% (3 requests) were made to Waternews.api.oneall.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (3.8 sec) belongs to the original domain Waternews.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 353.2 kB (21%)

Content Size

1.7 MB

After Optimization

1.3 MB

In fact, the total size of Waternews.co.za main page is 1.7 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 1.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 270.1 kB

  • Original 318.1 kB
  • After minification 311.6 kB
  • After compression 47.9 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 270.1 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 44.0 kB

  • Original 1.1 MB
  • After minification 1.0 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. Water News images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-17%

Potential reduce by 33.0 kB

  • Original 197.3 kB
  • After minification 197.3 kB
  • After compression 164.3 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 33.0 kB or 17% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 6.1 kB

  • Original 128.6 kB
  • After minification 128.6 kB
  • After compression 122.5 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. Waternews.co.za has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 47 (63%)

Requests Now

75

After Optimization

28

The browser has sent 75 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Water News. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 29 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 20 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

waternews.co.za SEO score

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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 Waternews.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 Waternews.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 Water News. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: