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zimdaily.com

Zimbabwe Daily – Always First, Fast!

Page Load Speed

3.2 sec in total

First Response

673 ms

Resources Loaded

2 sec

Page Rendered

447 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Zimdaily.com page load time and found that the first response time was 673 ms and then it took 2.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 45% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

zimdaily.com performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

www.zimdaily.com

673 ms

85 ms

134 ms

style.css

66 ms

buttons.js

8 ms

Our browser made a total of 134 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 72% of them (96 requests) were addressed to the original Zimdaily.com, 4% (5 requests) were made to Tpc.googlesyndication.com and 4% (5 requests) were made to Pagead2.googlesyndication.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (673 ms) belongs to the original domain Zimdaily.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 303.7 kB (22%)

Content Size

1.4 MB

After Optimization

1.1 MB

In fact, the total size of Zimdaily.com main page is 1.4 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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 958.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 68.3 kB

  • Original 83.8 kB
  • After minification 83.8 kB
  • After compression 15.5 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 68.3 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 21.0 kB

  • Original 958.9 kB
  • After minification 937.8 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. Zim Daily images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-67%

Potential reduce by 198.8 kB

  • Original 297.1 kB
  • After minification 296.9 kB
  • After compression 98.2 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 198.8 kB or 67% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 15.5 kB

  • Original 19.3 kB
  • After minification 18.5 kB
  • After compression 3.8 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. Zimdaily.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 15.5 kB or 80% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 59 (46%)

Requests Now

129

After Optimization

70

The browser has sent 129 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Zim Daily. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 21 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

zimdaily.com SEO score

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Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Zimdaily.com 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 Zimdaily.com 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 Zim Daily. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: