Report Summary

  • 13

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    25% of other websites

  • 87

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 67% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 79

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    40% of websites

aquanet.co.za

Pool Covers & Pool Nets | Leading Specialists in South Africa

Page Load Speed

9.8 sec in total

First Response

1.9 sec

Resources Loaded

7.5 sec

Page Rendered

418 ms

aquanet.co.za screenshot

About Website

Click here to check amazing Aquanet content for South Africa. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about aquanet.co.za

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Key Findings

We analyzed Aquanet.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 1.9 sec and then it took 7.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 85% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

aquanet.co.za performance score

13

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.9 s

4/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value15.8 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value15.9 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,380 ms

16/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.247

50/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value15.6 s

6/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

aquanet.co.za

1869 ms

easy-responsive-tabs.css

677 ms

responsiveslides.css

449 ms

jquery-ui.css

1251 ms

form.css

719 ms

Our browser made a total of 122 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 71% of them (87 requests) were addressed to the original Aquanet.co.za, 4% (5 requests) were made to Secure.livechatinc.com and 3% (4 requests) were made to Youtube.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.7 sec) belongs to the original domain Aquanet.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.7 MB (41%)

Content Size

4.1 MB

After Optimization

2.4 MB

In fact, the total size of Aquanet.co.za main page is 4.1 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 2.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 52.0 kB

  • Original 64.2 kB
  • After minification 57.3 kB
  • After compression 12.2 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 6.9 kB, which is 11% of the original size. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 52.0 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-17%

Potential reduce by 425.8 kB

  • Original 2.4 MB
  • After minification 2.0 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. Obviously, Aquanet needs image optimization as it can save up to 425.8 kB or 17% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-71%

Potential reduce by 739.7 kB

  • Original 1.0 MB
  • After minification 1.0 MB
  • After compression 308.0 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 739.7 kB or 71% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 433.5 kB

  • Original 511.5 kB
  • After minification 452.6 kB
  • After compression 78.0 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. Aquanet.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 433.5 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 47 (44%)

Requests Now

106

After Optimization

59

The browser has sent 106 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Aquanet. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 24 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 17 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

aquanet.co.za accessibility score

87

Accessibility Issues

Contrast

These are opportunities to improve the legibility of your content.

Impact

Issue

High

Background and foreground colors do not have a sufficient contrast ratio.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best practices

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

aquanet.co.za best practices score

75

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

High

Includes front-end JavaScript libraries with known security vulnerabilities

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

aquanet.co.za SEO score

79

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Aquanet.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 Aquanet.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 description is not detected on the main page of Aquanet. Lack of Open Graph description can be counter-productive for their social media presence, as such a description allows converting a website homepage (or other pages) into good-looking, rich and well-structured posts, when it is being shared on Facebook and other social media. For example, adding the following code snippet into HTML <head> tag will help to represent this web page correctly in social networks: