Report Summary

  • 60

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    76% of other websites

  • 86

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 62% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    19% of websites

  • 97

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    91% of websites

Page Load Speed

3.4 sec in total

First Response

881 ms

Resources Loaded

2.4 sec

Page Rendered

141 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Southafricanartists.com page load time and found that the first response time was 881 ms and then it took 2.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 45% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

southafricanartists.com performance score

60

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.9 s

55/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.3 s

42/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.0 s

63/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value90 ms

98/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value1.026

2/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value5.2 s

75/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

southafricanartists.com

881 ms

cloudflare.min.js

26 ms

saalib.js

104 ms

jquery-2.1.4.min.js

11 ms

jquery-migrate-1.2.1.js

25 ms

Our browser made a total of 48 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 67% of them (32 requests) were addressed to the original Southafricanartists.com, 8% (4 requests) were made to Code.jquery.com and 8% (4 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.3 sec) belongs to the original domain Southafricanartists.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 168.8 kB (61%)

Content Size

277.5 kB

After Optimization

108.7 kB

In fact, the total size of Southafricanartists.com main page is 277.5 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. 40% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 210.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-74%

Potential reduce by 18.3 kB

  • Original 24.8 kB
  • After minification 24.8 kB
  • After compression 6.5 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 18.3 kB or 74% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-28%

Potential reduce by 4.5 kB

  • Original 16.1 kB
  • After minification 11.7 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. Obviously, Southafricanartists needs image optimization as it can save up to 4.5 kB or 28% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-62%

Potential reduce by 131.2 kB

  • Original 210.8 kB
  • After minification 210.7 kB
  • After compression 79.6 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 131.2 kB or 62% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-57%

Potential reduce by 14.8 kB

  • Original 25.7 kB
  • After minification 25.7 kB
  • After compression 11.0 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. Southafricanartists.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 14.8 kB or 57% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 26 (55%)

Requests Now

47

After Optimization

21

The browser has sent 47 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Southafricanartists. 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 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

southafricanartists.com accessibility score

86

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.

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

Best Practices

southafricanartists.com 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

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

southafricanartists.com SEO score

97

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Southafricanartists.com 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 Southafricanartists.com 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 Southafricanartists. 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: