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Report Summary

  • 25

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    44% of other websites

  • 89

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 72% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 98

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    92% of websites

ecert.co.za

eCertification Platform - ePhyto - PhytClean - eInspect

Page Load Speed

9.7 sec in total

First Response

874 ms

Resources Loaded

8.6 sec

Page Rendered

206 ms

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About Website

Welcome to ecert.co.za homepage info - get ready to check Ecert best content for South Africa right away, or after learning these important things about ecert.co.za

eCert is an online platform created to receive, verify, process & deliver certification documentation to trading partners involved with agricultural export products.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Ecert.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 874 ms and then it took 8.8 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

ecert.co.za performance score

25

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value11.0 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value19.7 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value21.4 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value820 ms

35/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.087

93/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value19.9 s

2/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

ecert.co.za

874 ms

ecert.co.za

4106 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

1027 ms

style.min.css

1287 ms

dashicons.min.css

1352 ms

Our browser made a total of 105 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 55% of them (58 requests) were addressed to the original Ecert.co.za, 12% (13 requests) were made to Maps.googleapis.com and 11% (12 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (4.1 sec) belongs to the original domain Ecert.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 911.1 kB (54%)

Content Size

1.7 MB

After Optimization

766.0 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Ecert.co.za main page is 1.7 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. CSS take 771.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 107.8 kB

  • Original 130.4 kB
  • After minification 126.1 kB
  • After compression 22.6 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 107.8 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 4.1 kB

  • Original 373.2 kB
  • After minification 369.1 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. Ecert images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-42%

Potential reduce by 170.1 kB

  • Original 401.5 kB
  • After minification 396.1 kB
  • After compression 231.4 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 170.1 kB or 42% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 629.0 kB

  • Original 771.9 kB
  • After minification 746.8 kB
  • After compression 142.9 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. Ecert.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 629.0 kB or 81% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 64 (74%)

Requests Now

86

After Optimization

22

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 86 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Ecert. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 37 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 29 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

ecert.co.za

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874 ms

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StaticMapService.GetMapImage

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Accessibility Review

ecert.co.za accessibility score

89

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-*] attributes do not match their roles

High

[aria-hidden="true"] elements contain focusable descendents

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.

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

Low

No form fields have multiple labels

Best Practices

ecert.co.za best practices score

83

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

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

ecert.co.za SEO score

98

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Ecert.co.za can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and it matches the claimed language. Our system also found out that Ecert.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

ecert.co.za

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