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Report Summary

  • 63

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    77% of other websites

  • 93

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 82% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    75% of websites

search.co.za

Search South Africa - Think Global. Act Local.

Page Load Speed

1.1 sec in total

First Response

299 ms

Resources Loaded

686 ms

Page Rendered

95 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Search.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 299 ms and then it took 781 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 15% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

search.co.za performance score

63

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.2 s

43/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.4 s

39/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.2 s

77/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value430 ms

65/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.011

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value5.3 s

72/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

search.co.za

299 ms

style_home.css

83 ms

load.sumome.com

369 ms

brand

17 ms

urchin.js

21 ms

Our browser made a total of 9 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 33% of them (3 requests) were addressed to the original Search.co.za, 22% (2 requests) were made to Google.com and 22% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (369 ms) relates to the external source Load.sumome.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 9.9 kB (50%)

Content Size

19.9 kB

After Optimization

10.0 kB

  • HTML
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Search.co.za main page is 19.9 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. Only 10% of websites need less resources to load. HTML takes 10.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-74%

Potential reduce by 7.8 kB

  • Original 10.4 kB
  • After minification 10.2 kB
  • After compression 2.7 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 7.8 kB or 74% of the original size.

JavaScript Optimization

-13%

Potential reduce by 1.0 kB

  • Original 8.0 kB
  • After minification 8.0 kB
  • After compression 7.0 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 1.0 kB or 13% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 1.1 kB

  • Original 1.5 kB
  • After minification 1.1 kB
  • After compression 328 B

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. Search.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 1.1 kB or 78% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

7

After Optimization

7

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 7 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Search. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Network Requests Diagram

search.co.za

search.co.za

299 ms

style_home.css

style_home.css

83 ms

load.sumome.com

load.sumome.com

369 ms

brand

brand

17 ms

urchin.js

urchin.js

21 ms

brand

brand

74 ms

logo_large.gif

logo_large.gif

82 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

12 ms

google_custom_search_watermark.gif

google_custom_search_watermark.gif

37 ms

Accessibility Review

search.co.za accessibility score

93

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

Best Practices

search.co.za best practices score

92

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

SEO Factors

search.co.za SEO score

92

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

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    N/A

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

search.co.za

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