Report Summary

  • 25

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    44% of other websites

  • 82

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 54% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 90

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    68% of websites

golfauctions.co.za

Online Golf Auctions – SA's best online golf equipment auctions

Page Load Speed

16.9 sec in total

First Response

5.9 sec

Resources Loaded

10.7 sec

Page Rendered

294 ms

golfauctions.co.za screenshot

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Golfauctions.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 5.9 sec and then it took 11 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 90% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

golfauctions.co.za performance score

25

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.6 s

2/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value14.9 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value22.9 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value300 ms

79/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.945

3/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value13.4 s

11/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

golfauctions.co.za

5924 ms

autoptimize_4e60a1f906587c80339365428d20659e.css

1079 ms

autoptimize_c0852ca4b2894a46817e91abbb297aa6.css

539 ms

dashicons.min.css

779 ms

jquery.js

872 ms

Our browser made a total of 114 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 77% of them (88 requests) were addressed to the original Golfauctions.co.za, 4% (5 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 4% (4 requests) were made to A.mailmunch.co. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (5.9 sec) belongs to the original domain Golfauctions.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 198.0 kB (37%)

Content Size

540.9 kB

After Optimization

342.9 kB

In fact, the total size of Golfauctions.co.za main page is 540.9 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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 409.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 77.0 kB

  • Original 96.4 kB
  • After minification 93.5 kB
  • After compression 19.5 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 77.0 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-13%

Potential reduce by 4.2 kB

  • Original 32.4 kB
  • After minification 28.2 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. Obviously, Golf Auctions needs image optimization as it can save up to 4.2 kB or 13% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-28%

Potential reduce by 116.7 kB

  • Original 409.8 kB
  • After minification 409.1 kB
  • After compression 293.1 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 116.7 kB or 28% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 183 B

  • Original 2.3 kB
  • After minification 2.3 kB
  • After compression 2.1 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. Golfauctions.co.za has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 76 (73%)

Requests Now

104

After Optimization

28

The browser has sent 104 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Golf Auctions. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 71 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

golfauctions.co.za accessibility score

82

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.

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

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

golfauctions.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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

golfauctions.co.za SEO score

90

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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 Golfauctions.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 Golfauctions.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 Golf Auctions. 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: