Report Summary

  • 2

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    19% of other websites

  • 87

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 67% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 88

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    66% of websites

liberty.co.za

Financial Services Company | Insurance and Investments | Liberty

Page Load Speed

21.2 sec in total

First Response

757 ms

Resources Loaded

16.2 sec

Page Rendered

4.2 sec

liberty.co.za screenshot

About Website

Click here to check amazing Liberty content for South Africa. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about liberty.co.za

Liberty is a leading financial services organization that understands the value of knowledge and its power to change realities when set in action.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Liberty.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 757 ms and then it took 20.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 95% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

liberty.co.za performance score

2

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value9.6 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value25.6 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value25.8 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,210 ms

6/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value1.941

0/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value20.3 s

2/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

liberty.co.za

757 ms

default.aspx

1159 ms

corev15.css

1631 ms

init.js

1927 ms

ScriptResource.axd

1055 ms

Our browser made a total of 70 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 93% of them (65 requests) were addressed to the original Liberty.co.za, 3% (2 requests) were made to Google.com and 1% (1 request) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (4 sec) belongs to the original domain Liberty.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 2.8 MB (47%)

Content Size

5.9 MB

After Optimization

3.1 MB

In fact, the total size of Liberty.co.za main page is 5.9 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. Images take 2.7 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 93.1 kB

  • Original 114.3 kB
  • After minification 93.9 kB
  • After compression 21.2 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 20.4 kB, which is 18% 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 93.1 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 197.1 kB

  • Original 2.7 MB
  • After minification 2.5 MB

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. Liberty images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-73%

Potential reduce by 1.2 MB

  • Original 1.6 MB
  • After minification 1.5 MB
  • After compression 429.5 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 1.2 MB or 73% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-88%

Potential reduce by 1.3 MB

  • Original 1.5 MB
  • After minification 1.3 MB
  • After compression 181.9 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. Liberty.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 1.3 MB or 88% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 35 (56%)

Requests Now

62

After Optimization

27

The browser has sent 62 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Liberty. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 11 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

liberty.co.za accessibility score

87

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-hidden="true"] elements contain focusable descendents

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

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

[id] attributes on active, focusable elements are not unique

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Best Practices

liberty.co.za best practices score

75

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

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

liberty.co.za SEO score

88

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