Report Summary

  • 27

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    47% of other websites

  • 87

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 67% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    19% of websites

  • 77

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    36% of websites

solarm.co.za

Solar panels, Hybrids, batteries, Collectors, retail, supply, install | Silver Lakes, Pretoria | Solar panels, solutions, Pretoria, load shedding, off...

Page Load Speed

22 sec in total

First Response

2.8 sec

Resources Loaded

18.7 sec

Page Rendered

446 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Solarm.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 2.8 sec and then it took 19.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is an excellent result, as only a small number of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

solarm.co.za performance score

27

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.6 s

14/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.1 s

6/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value11.8 s

4/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,010 ms

27/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.059

98/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value13.3 s

11/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

solarm.co.za

2828 ms

www.solarm.co.za

1589 ms

wmenu.php

1062 ms

style.css

483 ms

gen_style.css

535 ms

Our browser made a total of 115 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 31% of them (36 requests) were addressed to the original Solarm.co.za, 33% (38 requests) were made to Kwikweb.co.za and 21% (24 requests) were made to Shared8.kwikweb.co.za. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (11.1 sec) belongs to the original domain Solarm.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 18.8 MB (53%)

Content Size

35.5 MB

After Optimization

16.7 MB

In fact, the total size of Solarm.co.za main page is 35.5 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. 55% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 34.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 99.9 kB

  • Original 131.6 kB
  • After minification 125.7 kB
  • After compression 31.7 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 99.9 kB or 76% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-52%

Potential reduce by 17.9 MB

  • Original 34.2 MB
  • After minification 16.3 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. Obviously, Solar M needs image optimization as it can save up to 17.9 MB or 52% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-66%

Potential reduce by 643.7 kB

  • Original 972.5 kB
  • After minification 959.6 kB
  • After compression 328.7 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 643.7 kB or 66% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 159.4 kB

  • Original 188.4 kB
  • After minification 154.9 kB
  • After compression 29.0 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. Solarm.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 159.4 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 38 (38%)

Requests Now

100

After Optimization

62

The browser has sent 100 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Solar M. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 20 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 20 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

solarm.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.

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

solarm.co.za best practices score

58

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

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

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

solarm.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

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

    N/A

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Solarm.co.za can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Unfortunately we cannot identify language used on the page (probably there is a mix of languages, too little text or something else) and no language is claimed in <html> or <meta> tags either. Our system also found out that Solarm.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 Solar M. 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: