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The Citizen | More News, Your Way
Get the latest news from South Africa and around the world with The Citizen's online edition. From politics to sport and everything in between, The Citizen has it covered with more news, your way.
Seo
Title
The title tag is perfect.
The Citizen | More News, Your Way
Meta description
The meta description tag is good.
Get the latest news from South Africa and around the world with The Citizen's online edition. From politics to sport and everything in between, The Citizen has it covered with more news, your way.
Headings
There is no h1 tag on the webpage.
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Content keywords
The content has relevant keywords.
thecitizenmorenews
Image keywords
There are 2 images with missing alt attributes.
Images
2- https://media.citizen.co.za/assets/img/logo.png
- https://media.citizen.co.za/assets/img/citizen-logo.png
SEO friendly URL
The URL is SEO friendly.
https://www.citizen.co.za/
404 page
The website has 404 error pages.
https://www.citizen.co.za/404-c063c245f88bae7ea46a422bdf1546c1
Robots.txt
The webpage can be accessed by search engines.
Noindex
The webpage does not have a noindex tag set.
In-page links
The number of links on the webpage is okay.
Internals
31- https://www.citizen.co.za/
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Externals
10- https://www.facebook.com/TheCitizenNewsSA/
- https://twitter.com/TheCitizen_News
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Citizen_(South_African_newspaper)
- https://www.linkedin.com/company/citizen/
- https://flipboard.com/@TheCitizenNews
- https://www.instagram.com/thecitizen_news/
- https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6W8rnMBwnzioz-3-8jH0-w
- https://www.iabsa.net/home/
- https://presscouncil.org.za/
- https://prc.za.com/
Language
The webpage has the language declared.
en
Favicon
The webpage has a favicon.
https://media.citizen.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/cropped-citizenicon-1-180x180.png
Performance
Text compression
The HTML file is compressed.
Load time
The webpage loaded in 0.13 seconds.
Page size
The size of the HTML webpage is 42,948.00.
HTTP requests
There are fewer than 22 HTTP requests on the webpage.
JavaScripts
11- https://live.mrf.io/statics/marfeel/gardac-sync.js
- https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=G-D87LG2K47Y
- https://www.citizen.co.za/wp-content/plugins/google-analytics-premium/assets/js/frontend-gtag.js?ver=8.9.1
- https://www.citizen.co.za/wp-includes/js/jquery/jquery.min.js?ver=3.6.0
- https://www.citizen.co.za/wp-includes/js/jquery/jquery-migrate.min.js?ver=3.3.2
- https://www.citizen.co.za/wp-content/plugins/mandrillpress/public/js/mandrillpress-public.js?ver=1.0.1
- https://www.citizen.co.za/wp-content/themes/citizen-2020/js/vendor.js?ver=2.6
- https://securepubads.g.doubleclick.net/tag/js/gpt.js
- https://www.citizen.co.za/wp-content/themes/citizen-2020/js/manifest.js?ver=2.6
- https://www.citizen.co.za/wp-content/themes/citizen-2020/js/app.js?ver=2.6
- https://cdn.onthe.io/io.js/NgBcKVJBj50g
CSS
4- https://www.citizen.co.za/wp-includes/css/dist/block-library/style.min.css?ver=6.0.2
- https://www.citizen.co.za/wp-content/plugins/mandrillpress/public/css/mandrillpress-public.css?ver=1.0.1
- https://www.citizen.co.za/wp-content/themes/citizen-2020/vendor.css?ver=2.6
- https://www.citizen.co.za/wp-content/themes/citizen-2020/style.css?ver=2.6
Images
5- https://media.citizen.co.za/assets/img/logo.png
- https://media.citizen.co.za/assets/img/citizen-logo.png
- https://media.citizen.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/The-Citizen-IAB-SOUTH-AFRICA.png
- https://media.citizen.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/The-Citizen-Press-Council.png
- https://media.citizen.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Prclogo.png
Iframes
2- https://www.googletagmanager.com/ns.html?id=GTM-N6K7RKV
- https://iframe.iono.fm/p/2940?accent=cc0a17&border=e8e8e8&text=000000&sharing=1&download=0
Image format
There are 5 images that are not using the AVIF, WebP format.
Images
5- https://media.citizen.co.za/assets/img/logo.png
- https://media.citizen.co.za/assets/img/citizen-logo.png
- https://media.citizen.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/The-Citizen-IAB-SOUTH-AFRICA.png
- https://media.citizen.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/The-Citizen-Press-Council.png
- https://media.citizen.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Prclogo.png
JavaScript defer
The are 11 javascript resources without the defer attribute.
JavaScripts
11- https://live.mrf.io/statics/marfeel/gardac-sync.js
- https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=G-D87LG2K47Y
- https://www.citizen.co.za/wp-content/plugins/google-analytics-premium/assets/js/frontend-gtag.js?ver=8.9.1
- https://www.citizen.co.za/wp-includes/js/jquery/jquery.min.js?ver=3.6.0
- https://www.citizen.co.za/wp-includes/js/jquery/jquery-migrate.min.js?ver=3.3.2
- https://www.citizen.co.za/wp-content/plugins/mandrillpress/public/js/mandrillpress-public.js?ver=1.0.1
- https://www.citizen.co.za/wp-content/themes/citizen-2020/js/vendor.js?ver=2.6
- https://securepubads.g.doubleclick.net/tag/js/gpt.js
- https://www.citizen.co.za/wp-content/themes/citizen-2020/js/manifest.js?ver=2.6
- https://www.citizen.co.za/wp-content/themes/citizen-2020/js/app.js?ver=2.6
- https://cdn.onthe.io/io.js/NgBcKVJBj50g
DOM size
The DOM size is optimal.
The HTML file has 339 DOM nodes.
Security
HTTPS encryption
The webpage uses HTTPS encryption.
The HTML file has https://www.citizen.co.za/ DOM nodes.
Mixed content
There are no mixed content resources on the webpage.
Server signature
The webpage has a public server signature.
nginx
Unsafe cross-origin links
The webpage has 7 unsafe cross-origin links.
Links
7- https://www.facebook.com/TheCitizenNewsSA/
- https://twitter.com/TheCitizen_News
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Citizen_(South_African_newspaper)
- https://www.linkedin.com/company/citizen/
- https://flipboard.com/@TheCitizenNews
- https://www.instagram.com/thecitizen_news/
- https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6W8rnMBwnzioz-3-8jH0-w
Plaintext email
The webpage does not contain any plaintext emails.
Miscellaneous
Structured data
The webpage has structured data.
Open Graph
10Twitter
2Schema.org
2
Meta viewport
The webpage has a meta viewport tag set.
width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0
Character set
The webpage has a charset value set.
UTF-8
Sitemap
The website has sitemaps.
Sitemaps
3- https://www.citizen.co.za/sitemap_index.xml
- https://www.citizen.co.za/witness/sitemap_index.xml
- https://www.citizen.co.za/middelburg-observer/sitemap_index.xml
Social
The webpage has 5 social links.
Content length
The webpage has 980 words.
Text to HTML ratio
The text to HTML ratio is under 10%
The text to HTML ratio is 3%.
Inline CSS
The webpage does not contain inline CSS code.
Deprecated HTML
There are no deprecated HTML tags on the webpage.
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