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Report Summary

  • 15

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    27% of other websites

  • 94

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 83% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    83% of websites

aluview.co.za

Home - Aluview Innovative Aluminium & Glass Solutions

Page Load Speed

13 sec in total

First Response

2.1 sec

Resources Loaded

10.5 sec

Page Rendered

363 ms

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About Website

Click here to check amazing Aluview content for South Africa. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about aluview.co.za

Aluview Aluminium & Glass is the forerunner in the South African shower door industry with sturdy design and excellent sealing properties.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Aluview.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 2.1 sec and then it took 10.9 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

aluview.co.za performance score

15

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.1 s

3/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value20.5 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value24.0 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,260 ms

2/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.08

94/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value24.7 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.aluview.co.za

2075 ms

jceutilities-220.css

596 ms

style.css

627 ms

style_ie6.css

803 ms

modal.css

677 ms

Our browser made a total of 59 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 92% of them (54 requests) were addressed to the original Aluview.co.za, 5% (3 requests) were made to Stats.g.doubleclick.net and 2% (1 request) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (4.8 sec) belongs to the original domain Aluview.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 150.6 kB (31%)

Content Size

486.2 kB

After Optimization

335.6 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Aluview.co.za main page is 486.2 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. 25% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 262.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 21.3 kB

  • Original 27.4 kB
  • After minification 26.6 kB
  • After compression 6.1 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 21.3 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 8.0 kB

  • Original 262.1 kB
  • After minification 254.1 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. Aluview images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-57%

Potential reduce by 90.3 kB

  • Original 157.2 kB
  • After minification 148.4 kB
  • After compression 66.9 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 90.3 kB or 57% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 31.0 kB

  • Original 39.5 kB
  • After minification 29.7 kB
  • After compression 8.5 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. Aluview.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 31.0 kB or 79% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 24 (42%)

Requests Now

57

After Optimization

33

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 57 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Aluview. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 9 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 11 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

www.aluview.co.za

www.aluview.co.za

2075 ms

jceutilities-220.css

jceutilities-220.css

596 ms

style.css

style.css

627 ms

style_ie6.css

style_ie6.css

803 ms

modal.css

modal.css

677 ms

mootools.js

mootools.js

1626 ms

mediaobject.js

mediaobject.js

634 ms

jceutilities-220.js

jceutilities-220.js

1153 ms

modal.js

modal.js

916 ms

caption.js

caption.js

915 ms

reset.css

reset.css

1089 ms

960.css

960.css

1095 ms

template_css.css

template_css.css

1239 ms

dropline.css

dropline.css

1280 ms

style2.css

style2.css

1376 ms

serif.css

serif.css

1388 ms

j15.css

j15.css

1453 ms

matching_columns.js

matching_columns.js

1530 ms

ga_social_tracking.js

ga_social_tracking.js

1643 ms

dc.js

dc.js

53 ms

logo.png

logo.png

291 ms

saflag.jpg

saflag.jpg

397 ms

enquire_now3.jpg

enquire_now3.jpg

1186 ms

nav_bg.png

nav_bg.png

301 ms

topshadow.png

topshadow.png

760 ms

nav_right_up.png

nav_right_up.png

303 ms

nav_left_active.png

nav_left_active.png

614 ms

nav_left_up.png

nav_left_up.png

618 ms

measure.jpg

measure.jpg

1685 ms

Hi-Res-RED.jpg

Hi-Res-RED.jpg

2043 ms

low-Res-RED.jpg

low-Res-RED.jpg

2085 ms

alpinemain.jpg

alpinemain.jpg

2132 ms

imolamain.jpg

imolamain.jpg

2149 ms

laliquemain.jpg

laliquemain.jpg

1610 ms

monzamain.jpg

monzamain.jpg

1909 ms

emperormain.jpg

emperormain.jpg

2950 ms

kaliceroundmain.jpg

kaliceroundmain.jpg

2201 ms

kalicestrmain.jpg

kalicestrmain.jpg

2585 ms

tn-steam-showers-07.jpg

tn-steam-showers-07.jpg

2647 ms

tn-steam-showers-05.jpg

tn-steam-showers-05.jpg

2425 ms

tn-steam-showers-06.jpg

tn-steam-showers-06.jpg

2427 ms

sunflex-02.jpg

sunflex-02.jpg

2513 ms

Glass-Hinge-Doors-04-450.jpg

Glass-Hinge-Doors-04-450.jpg

3051 ms

Balustrade-04-350.jpg

Balustrade-04-350.jpg

3119 ms

Balustrade-02-350.jpg

Balustrade-02-350.jpg

3079 ms

WineHome-01.jpg

WineHome-01.jpg

3437 ms

WineHome-02.jpg

WineHome-02.jpg

3469 ms

glass-partition-01.jpg

glass-partition-01.jpg

3592 ms

glass-partition-02.jpg

glass-partition-02.jpg

3635 ms

aluview_thumb.jpg

aluview_thumb.jpg

3468 ms

newaaamsalogo.gif

newaaamsalogo.gif

3409 ms

sasema_logo2.gif

sasema_logo2.gif

3720 ms

smartglass.jpg

smartglass.jpg

3720 ms

logo.png

logo.png

4814 ms

footer_bg.png

footer_bg.png

3748 ms

ga.js

ga.js

27 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

17 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

19 ms

ga-audiences

ga-audiences

41 ms

Accessibility Review

aluview.co.za accessibility score

94

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

aluview.co.za best practices score

83

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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

aluview.co.za SEO score

93

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

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 Aluview.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 Aluview.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

aluview.co.za

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