Report Summary

  • 93

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    92% of other websites

  • 78

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 46% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    19% of websites

  • 67

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    25% of websites

athlone.co.za

Domain registered on behalf of our client by domains.co.za

Page Load Speed

1.9 sec in total

First Response

692 ms

Resources Loaded

1.1 sec

Page Rendered

153 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Athlone.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 692 ms and then it took 1.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 25% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

athlone.co.za performance score

93

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.9 s

86/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.2 s

95/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.7 s

69/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value110 ms

97/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.03

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value3.4 s

93/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

athlone.co.za

692 ms

athlone.css

195 ms

banner.jpg

316 ms

2.jpg

434 ms

logo_b_back.jpg

184 ms

Our browser made a total of 44 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 45% of them (20 requests) were addressed to the original Athlone.co.za, 14% (6 requests) were made to Tpc.googlesyndication.com and 11% (5 requests) were made to Pagead2.googlesyndication.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (692 ms) belongs to the original domain Athlone.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 24.9 kB (16%)

Content Size

156.9 kB

After Optimization

132.0 kB

In fact, the total size of Athlone.co.za main page is 156.9 kB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 35% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 102.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-73%

Potential reduce by 11.9 kB

  • Original 16.4 kB
  • After minification 15.5 kB
  • After compression 4.5 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 11.9 kB or 73% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 903 B

  • Original 102.8 kB
  • After minification 101.9 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. Athlone images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-24%

Potential reduce by 7.6 kB

  • Original 32.0 kB
  • After minification 31.8 kB
  • After compression 24.5 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 7.6 kB or 24% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 4.5 kB

  • Original 5.6 kB
  • After minification 5.1 kB
  • After compression 1.2 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. Athlone.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 4.5 kB or 79% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 12 (31%)

Requests Now

39

After Optimization

27

The browser has sent 39 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Athlone. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 8 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

athlone.co.za accessibility score

78

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

ARIA input fields do not have accessible names

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.

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

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

High

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

athlone.co.za best practices score

58

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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

athlone.co.za SEO score

67

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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 Athlone.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 Athlone.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 description is not detected on the main page of Athlone. 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: