Report Summary

  • 10

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    23% of other websites

  • 92

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 80% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    19% of websites

  • 85

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    56% of websites

zalebs.co.za

ZAlebs

Page Load Speed

6.1 sec in total

First Response

781 ms

Resources Loaded

5 sec

Page Rendered

325 ms

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About Website

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

ZAlebs is the go-to place in South Africa for the latest news, stories, rumours and more about South African celebrities, actors and presenters.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Zalebs.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 781 ms and then it took 5.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 75% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

zalebs.co.za performance score

10

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.1 s

47/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.9 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.5 s

39/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,980 ms

3/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value1.088

1/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value18.8 s

3/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

zalebs.co.za

781 ms

www.zalebs.com

995 ms

galleria.classic.css

470 ms

46c67836d7a7.css

708 ms

jquery-1.10.2.min.js

705 ms

Our browser made a total of 119 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Zalebs.co.za, 43% (51 requests) were made to Zalebs.com and 7% (8 requests) were made to Cm.g.doubleclick.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.8 sec) relates to the external source Zalebs.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.3 MB (56%)

Content Size

2.3 MB

After Optimization

1.0 MB

In fact, the total size of Zalebs.co.za main page is 2.3 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. Javascripts take 1.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-74%

Potential reduce by 273.8 kB

  • Original 369.8 kB
  • After minification 359.7 kB
  • After compression 96.1 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 273.8 kB or 74% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 27.7 kB

  • Original 525.1 kB
  • After minification 497.4 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. ZAlebs images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-66%

Potential reduce by 669.1 kB

  • Original 1.0 MB
  • After minification 1.0 MB
  • After compression 350.2 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 669.1 kB or 66% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 328.7 kB

  • Original 390.3 kB
  • After minification 362.6 kB
  • After compression 61.6 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. Zalebs.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 328.7 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 49 (45%)

Requests Now

109

After Optimization

60

The browser has sent 109 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of ZAlebs. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 36 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

zalebs.co.za accessibility score

92

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

Best Practices

zalebs.co.za best practices score

58

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

High

Requests the geolocation permission on page load

High

Includes front-end JavaScript libraries with known security vulnerabilities

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

SEO Factors

zalebs.co.za SEO score

85

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

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

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    N/A

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Zalebs.co.za can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Zalebs.co.za main page’s claimed encoding is . Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

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