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Report Summary

  • 17

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    32% of other websites

  • 77

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 45% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 97

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    91% of websites

freefind.co.za

FREE South African Business Directory - FreeFind South Africa

Page Load Speed

4.8 sec in total

First Response

778 ms

Resources Loaded

3.6 sec

Page Rendered

350 ms

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About Website

Visit freefind.co.za now to see the best up-to-date Free Find content for South Africa and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about freefind.co.za

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Key Findings

We analyzed Freefind.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 778 ms and then it took 4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 65% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

freefind.co.za performance score

17

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value18.9 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value19.9 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value38.2 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,400 ms

5/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.014

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value42.4 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

freefind.co.za

778 ms

freefind.css

727 ms

Latestlinks.js

1254 ms

show_ads.js

8 ms

ga.js

30 ms

Our browser made a total of 26 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 38% of them (10 requests) were addressed to the original Freefind.co.za, 19% (5 requests) were made to Pagead2.googlesyndication.com and 15% (4 requests) were made to Tpc.googlesyndication.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.1 sec) belongs to the original domain Freefind.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 72.5 kB (12%)

Content Size

617.1 kB

After Optimization

544.6 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Freefind.co.za main page is 617.1 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 496.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 25.8 kB

  • Original 30.7 kB
  • After minification 29.7 kB
  • After compression 5.0 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 25.8 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 482 B

  • Original 496.3 kB
  • After minification 495.8 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. Free Find images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-43%

Potential reduce by 30.7 kB

  • Original 71.0 kB
  • After minification 70.8 kB
  • After compression 40.4 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 30.7 kB or 43% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 15.6 kB

  • Original 19.1 kB
  • After minification 13.5 kB
  • After compression 3.4 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. Freefind.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 15.6 kB or 82% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 8 (35%)

Requests Now

23

After Optimization

15

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 23 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Free Find. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 9 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

freefind.co.za

freefind.co.za

778 ms

freefind.css

freefind.css

727 ms

Latestlinks.js

Latestlinks.js

1254 ms

show_ads.js

show_ads.js

8 ms

ga.js

ga.js

30 ms

freefind-background.jpg

freefind-background.jpg

2106 ms

logo_freefind.jpg

logo_freefind.jpg

455 ms

formsearch.jpg

formsearch.jpg

468 ms

addbiz.jpg

addbiz.jpg

716 ms

courses4africa_freefind.jpg

courses4africa_freefind.jpg

1012 ms

netmechanic.jpg

netmechanic.jpg

1012 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

13 ms

ca-pub-2793904050333996.js

ca-pub-2793904050333996.js

75 ms

zrt_lookup.html

zrt_lookup.html

66 ms

show_ads_impl.js

show_ads_impl.js

80 ms

round-br.png

round-br.png

264 ms

ads

ads

256 ms

osd.js

osd.js

5 ms

m_js_controller.js

m_js_controller.js

34 ms

abg.js

abg.js

51 ms

favicon

favicon

68 ms

googlelogo_color_112x36dp.png

googlelogo_color_112x36dp.png

66 ms

nessie_icon_tiamat_white.png

nessie_icon_tiamat_white.png

47 ms

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29 ms

x_button_blue2.png

x_button_blue2.png

14 ms

Tqng9ngJVK4Gqvh3e602hP-HqlN49KFEUSDtmrOPmWo.js

Tqng9ngJVK4Gqvh3e602hP-HqlN49KFEUSDtmrOPmWo.js

3 ms

Accessibility Review

freefind.co.za accessibility score

77

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

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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

Best Practices

freefind.co.za best practices score

67

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

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

freefind.co.za SEO score

97

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 Freefind.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 Freefind.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

freefind.co.za

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Free Find. 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: