Report Summary

  • 38

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    58% of other websites

  • 78

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 46% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    19% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    75% of websites

alwayson.co.za

WiFi & Wireless Internet Service Provider | AlwaysOn

Page Load Speed

30.9 sec in total

First Response

950 ms

Resources Loaded

23.8 sec

Page Rendered

6.2 sec

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Alwayson.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 950 ms and then it took 30 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

alwayson.co.za performance score

38

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value12.2 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value14.5 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value18.9 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value350 ms

74/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.001

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value16.1 s

6/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

alwayson.co.za

950 ms

www.alwayson.co.za

2191 ms

style.css

685 ms

purple.css

1218 ms

creditcard.css

1222 ms

Our browser made a total of 85 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 73% of them (62 requests) were addressed to the original Alwayson.co.za, 5% (4 requests) were made to Maps.googleapis.com and 5% (4 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (10.2 sec) relates to the external source Fonts.gstatic.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 2.9 MB (53%)

Content Size

5.5 MB

After Optimization

2.6 MB

In fact, the total size of Alwayson.co.za main page is 5.5 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. 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 2.8 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 31.7 kB

  • Original 39.6 kB
  • After minification 29.1 kB
  • After compression 7.9 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 10.5 kB, which is 27% of the original size. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 31.7 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-34%

Potential reduce by 964.9 kB

  • Original 2.8 MB
  • After minification 1.9 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. Obviously, Always On needs image optimization as it can save up to 964.9 kB or 34% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-68%

Potential reduce by 1.3 MB

  • Original 2.0 MB
  • After minification 1.8 MB
  • After compression 638.7 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 1.3 MB or 68% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 595.1 kB

  • Original 685.1 kB
  • After minification 553.6 kB
  • After compression 90.0 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. Alwayson.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 595.1 kB or 87% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 42 (64%)

Requests Now

66

After Optimization

24

The browser has sent 66 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Always On. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 32 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 12 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

alwayson.co.za accessibility score

78

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

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

alwayson.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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

alwayson.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

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 Alwayson.co.za 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 Alwayson.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 data is detected on the main page of Always On. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: