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Report Summary

  • 38

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    57% of other websites

  • 75

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 41% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    74% of websites

alcom.co.za

Professional Two Way Digital Radio Distributor - Altron Nexus

Page Load Speed

14.7 sec in total

First Response

254 ms

Resources Loaded

13.9 sec

Page Rendered

497 ms

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About Website

Welcome to alcom.co.za homepage info - get ready to check Alcom best content for South Africa right away, or after learning these important things about alcom.co.za

We are the largest professional two-way radio distributor in Sub-Saharan Africa working closely with our highly specialized and accredited Dealers.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Alcom.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 254 ms and then it took 14.4 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

alcom.co.za performance score

38

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value8.2 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value15.2 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value16.6 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value320 ms

76/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.024

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value16.6 s

5/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

alcom.co.za

254 ms

www.altronnexus.com

2116 ms

gtm.js

73 ms

hotjar-1873766.js

98 ms

h6ml.css

815 ms

Our browser made a total of 75 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Alcom.co.za, 87% (65 requests) were made to Altronnexus.com and 5% (4 requests) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (7.5 sec) relates to the external source Altronnexus.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 234.1 kB (15%)

Content Size

1.5 MB

After Optimization

1.3 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Alcom.co.za main page is 1.5 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 772.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 209.7 kB

  • Original 245.4 kB
  • After minification 244.4 kB
  • After compression 35.7 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 209.7 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 772.0 kB
  • After minification 772.0 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. Alcom images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 18.7 kB

  • Original 349.9 kB
  • After minification 349.9 kB
  • After compression 331.2 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

-4%

Potential reduce by 5.8 kB

  • Original 156.6 kB
  • After minification 156.0 kB
  • After compression 150.9 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. Alcom.co.za has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 55 (85%)

Requests Now

65

After Optimization

10

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 65 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Alcom. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 24 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 33 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

alcom.co.za

alcom.co.za

254 ms

www.altronnexus.com

www.altronnexus.com

2116 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

73 ms

hotjar-1873766.js

hotjar-1873766.js

98 ms

h6ml.css

h6ml.css

815 ms

h6ml.css

h6ml.css

744 ms

h6ml.css

h6ml.css

769 ms

h6ml.css

h6ml.css

772 ms

h6ml.css

h6ml.css

769 ms

h6ml.css

h6ml.css

790 ms

h6ml.css

h6ml.css

996 ms

h6ml.css

h6ml.css

1029 ms

style.css

style.css

1028 ms

h6mk.css

h6mk.css

1034 ms

h6mk.css

h6mk.css

1080 ms

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h6mk.css

1246 ms

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h6mk.css

1543 ms

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h6mk.css

1288 ms

h6mk.css

h6mk.css

1294 ms

h6mk.css

h6mk.css

1321 ms

h6mk.css

h6mk.css

1346 ms

css

css

41 ms

h6mk.css

h6mk.css

1497 ms

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h6mk.css

1550 ms

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h6mk.css

1557 ms

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1587 ms

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h6mk.css

1621 ms

h6mk.css

h6mk.css

1747 ms

h6mk.css

h6mk.css

1810 ms

h6mk.css

h6mk.css

1812 ms

css

css

34 ms

partical.js

partical.js

1821 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

2109 ms

jquery-migrate.min.js

jquery-migrate.min.js

1884 ms

css

css

34 ms

css

css

37 ms

h6mk.css

h6mk.css

1756 ms

h6mk.css

h6mk.css

1831 ms

h6mk.css

h6mk.css

1834 ms

h6mk.css

h6mk.css

1844 ms

frontend.js

frontend.js

2935 ms

jquery.easing.min.js

jquery.easing.min.js

2059 ms

jquery.mousewheel.min.js

jquery.mousewheel.min.js

2110 ms

priority.js

priority.js

1653 ms

transit.min.js

transit.min.js

1632 ms

waypoints.js

waypoints.js

1631 ms

imagesLoaded.min.js

imagesLoaded.min.js

1750 ms

hoverintent.min.js

hoverintent.min.js

1826 ms

jquery.fancybox.min.js

jquery.fancybox.min.js

1799 ms

anime.min.js

anime.min.js

1630 ms

nectar-animated-gradient.js

nectar-animated-gradient.js

1629 ms

flickity.min.js

flickity.min.js

1987 ms

superfish.js

superfish.js

1842 ms

init.js

init.js

2328 ms

touchswipe.min.js

touchswipe.min.js

1806 ms

new-tab.js

new-tab.js

1678 ms

js_composer_front.min.js

js_composer_front.min.js

1850 ms

lottie-player.min.js

lottie-player.min.js

2365 ms

nectar-lottie.js

nectar-lottie.js

1893 ms

Altron-Nexus-Web_White-Blue.svg

Altron-Nexus-Web_White-Blue.svg

1124 ms

Altron-Dash.svg

Altron-Dash.svg

1258 ms

font

font

108 ms

icomoon.woff

icomoon.woff

1491 ms

fontawesome-webfont.svg

fontawesome-webfont.svg

1763 ms

fontawesome-webfont.woff

fontawesome-webfont.woff

1551 ms

5324Rajdhani.woff

5324Rajdhani.woff

1925 ms

groovy-69018.woff

groovy-69018.woff

1431 ms

groovy-28328.woff

groovy-28328.woff

1683 ms

crane-font.woff

crane-font.woff

1712 ms

HVrda0rOHqk

HVrda0rOHqk

376 ms

landing-page-hero-image.jpg

landing-page-hero-image.jpg

7491 ms

ezgif.com-gif-maker-2022-08-18T074346.085.webp

ezgif.com-gif-maker-2022-08-18T074346.085.webp

1926 ms

ezgif.com-gif-maker-2022-08-15T090535.686.webp

ezgif.com-gif-maker-2022-08-15T090535.686.webp

2094 ms

font

font

24 ms

fontawesome-webfont.woff

fontawesome-webfont.woff

275 ms

Accessibility Review

alcom.co.za accessibility score

75

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

[aria-*] attributes do not match their roles

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

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best practices

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

alcom.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

SEO Factors

alcom.co.za SEO score

92

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

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

alcom.co.za

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of Alcom. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: