Report Summary

  • 53

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    71% of other websites

  • 98

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 94% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 96

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    91% of websites

rc-king.co.za

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Page Load Speed

8.6 sec in total

First Response

1.2 sec

Resources Loaded

7.2 sec

Page Rendered

224 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Rc-king.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 1.2 sec and then it took 7.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 80% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

rc-king.co.za performance score

53

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.8 s

28/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.6 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.9 s

23/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value120 ms

97/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value8.6 s

37/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.rc-king.co.za

1175 ms

v_97_582b710e95677ceaeb2806da0777e390_all.css

473 ms

css

73 ms

css

85 ms

rc-king-logo-1452059382.jpg

673 ms

Our browser made a total of 85 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 48% of them (41 requests) were addressed to the original Rc-king.co.za, 20% (17 requests) were made to Static.xx.fbcdn.net and 12% (10 requests) were made to Scontent.xx.fbcdn.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.6 sec) belongs to the original domain Rc-king.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 557.6 kB (35%)

Content Size

1.6 MB

After Optimization

1.0 MB

In fact, the total size of Rc-king.co.za main page is 1.6 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. 50% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 872.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 133.8 kB

  • Original 155.3 kB
  • After minification 155.3 kB
  • After compression 21.6 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 133.8 kB or 86% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 6.1 kB

  • Original 872.4 kB
  • After minification 866.4 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. RC King images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-71%

Potential reduce by 206.0 kB

  • Original 291.8 kB
  • After minification 291.8 kB
  • After compression 85.8 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 206.0 kB or 71% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 211.8 kB

  • Original 253.0 kB
  • After minification 248.8 kB
  • After compression 41.2 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. Rc-king.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 211.8 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 24 (30%)

Requests Now

79

After Optimization

55

The browser has sent 79 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of RC King. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 13 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 8 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

rc-king.co.za accessibility score

98

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.

Best Practices

rc-king.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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

rc-king.co.za SEO score

96

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 Rc-king.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 Rc-king.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 RC King. 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: