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Report Summary

  • 42

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    61% of other websites

  • 87

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 67% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    84% of websites

homemakersfair.co.za

HOMEMAKERS Fair - Our Expo Is Back More Fun & Fair For Your Home

Page Load Speed

5.3 sec in total

First Response

755 ms

Resources Loaded

4.3 sec

Page Rendered

207 ms

homemakersfair.co.za screenshot

About Website

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

Our lives and our homes have changed since 2020. Let’s focus on the areas that matter. Join our HOMEMAKERS Fair Expo. Fun and fair for homes.

Visit homemakersfair.co.za

Key Findings

We analyzed Homemakersfair.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 755 ms and then it took 4.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 70% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

homemakersfair.co.za performance score

42

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.9 s

1/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.3 s

2/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.9 s

10/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value340 ms

74/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.004

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value9.9 s

27/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

homemakersfair.co.za

755 ms

layout.css

688 ms

css

24 ms

navi.css

262 ms

forms.css

470 ms

Our browser made a total of 37 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 51% of them (19 requests) were addressed to the original Homemakersfair.co.za, 32% (12 requests) were made to Hometalk.co.za and 8% (3 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.4 sec) belongs to the original domain Homemakersfair.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 100.3 kB (11%)

Content Size

881.6 kB

After Optimization

781.3 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Homemakersfair.co.za main page is 881.6 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. 30% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 775.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 10.3 kB

  • Original 12.8 kB
  • After minification 10.3 kB
  • After compression 2.5 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 2.5 kB, which is 19% 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 10.3 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 24.8 kB

  • Original 775.2 kB
  • After minification 750.4 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. HOMEMAKERS Fair images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-60%

Potential reduce by 32.0 kB

  • Original 52.9 kB
  • After minification 52.9 kB
  • After compression 20.9 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 32.0 kB or 60% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 33.2 kB

  • Original 40.7 kB
  • After minification 30.6 kB
  • After compression 7.5 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. Homemakersfair.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 33.2 kB or 82% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 6 (18%)

Requests Now

33

After Optimization

27

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 33 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of HOMEMAKERS Fair. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

homemakersfair.co.za

homemakersfair.co.za

755 ms

layout.css

layout.css

688 ms

css

css

24 ms

navi.css

navi.css

262 ms

forms.css

forms.css

470 ms

tables.css

tables.css

466 ms

freecontactform.css

freecontactform.css

480 ms

slider_image_hover.css

slider_image_hover.css

481 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

38 ms

hmfair_bloem_thumb.jpg

hmfair_bloem_thumb.jpg

742 ms

hmfair_ct_thumb.jpg

hmfair_ct_thumb.jpg

1096 ms

hmfair_durban_thumb.jpg

hmfair_durban_thumb.jpg

972 ms

hmfair_joburg_thumb.jpg

hmfair_joburg_thumb.jpg

1290 ms

hmfair_pe_thumb.jpg

hmfair_pe_thumb.jpg

1239 ms

hmfair_pretoria_thumb.jpg

hmfair_pretoria_thumb.jpg

1018 ms

hmfair_vaal_thumb.jpg

hmfair_vaal_thumb.jpg

1469 ms

renovate_ct_thumb.jpg

renovate_ct_thumb.jpg

1686 ms

renovate_joburg_thumb.jpg

renovate_joburg_thumb.jpg

1487 ms

renovate_pretoria_thumb.jpg

renovate_pretoria_thumb.jpg

1790 ms

exponews_thumb.jpg

exponews_thumb.jpg

1929 ms

expo_showguide_thumb.jpg

expo_showguide_thumb.jpg

1976 ms

youtube_icon_grey.png

youtube_icon_grey.png

473 ms

linkedin_icon_grey.png

linkedin_icon_grey.png

475 ms

twitter_icon_grey.png

twitter_icon_grey.png

477 ms

fb_icon_grey.png

fb_icon_grey.png

481 ms

hm_logo.png

hm_logo.png

720 ms

hm_singlepage_slider_frame1.jpg

hm_singlepage_slider_frame1.jpg

1076 ms

hm_singlepage_slider_frame2.jpg

hm_singlepage_slider_frame2.jpg

2385 ms

mags_customers_greyarrow.png

mags_customers_greyarrow.png

950 ms

hm_fair_logo.jpg

hm_fair_logo.jpg

966 ms

renovate_logo.jpg

renovate_logo.jpg

953 ms

hm_expologo.jpg

hm_expologo.jpg

1200 ms

hm_online_logo.png

hm_online_logo.png

1421 ms

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Accessibility Review

homemakersfair.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

homemakersfair.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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

homemakersfair.co.za SEO score

93

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

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Homemakersfair.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 Homemakersfair.co.za main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. 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

homemakersfair.co.za

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of HOMEMAKERS Fair. 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: