Report Summary

  • 23

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    42% of other websites

  • 74

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 41% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 77

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    36% of websites

shutterlux.co.za

Shutterlux – Handcrafted Shutters

Page Load Speed

17.2 sec in total

First Response

1.5 sec

Resources Loaded

14.1 sec

Page Rendered

1.6 sec

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Key Findings

We analyzed Shutterlux.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 1.5 sec and then it took 15.8 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

shutterlux.co.za performance score

23

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value7.3 s

1/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value20.4 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value28.7 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,060 ms

25/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value22.0 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

shutterlux.co.za

1479 ms

www.shutterlux.co.za

2249 ms

dwvvu.css

820 ms

fwydm.css

1952 ms

post-440.css

1185 ms

Our browser made a total of 101 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 69% of them (70 requests) were addressed to the original Shutterlux.co.za, 18% (18 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 8% (8 requests) were made to Embed.tawk.to. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (4.1 sec) belongs to the original domain Shutterlux.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 274.8 kB (7%)

Content Size

4.0 MB

After Optimization

3.7 MB

In fact, the total size of Shutterlux.co.za main page is 4.0 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. 75% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Images take 2.9 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 196.4 kB

  • Original 232.1 kB
  • After minification 225.3 kB
  • After compression 35.8 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 196.4 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 13.6 kB

  • Original 2.9 MB
  • After minification 2.9 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. Shutterlux images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-9%

Potential reduce by 61.2 kB

  • Original 646.4 kB
  • After minification 646.4 kB
  • After compression 585.2 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 3.6 kB

  • Original 197.1 kB
  • After minification 197.1 kB
  • After compression 193.6 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. Shutterlux.co.za has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 56 (70%)

Requests Now

80

After Optimization

24

The browser has sent 80 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Shutterlux. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 43 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 15 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

shutterlux.co.za accessibility score

74

Accessibility Issues

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

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible 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.

Best Practices

shutterlux.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

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

shutterlux.co.za SEO score

77

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

High

Links do not have descriptive text

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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 Shutterlux.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 Shutterlux.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 Shutterlux. 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: