Report Summary

  • 3

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    20% of other websites

  • 64

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 30% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 77

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    36% of websites

apetslife.co.za

Canine & Co - Love & Knowledge For Your Pet's Best Life

Page Load Speed

14.3 sec in total

First Response

2.9 sec

Resources Loaded

11.1 sec

Page Rendered

309 ms

apetslife.co.za screenshot

About Website

Welcome to apetslife.co.za homepage info - get ready to check A Pet S Life best content for South Africa right away, or after learning these important things about apetslife.co.za

Canine & Co offers world-class dog & cat products, delivered straight to your door. Safe, secure, online shopping with free delivery to main centres for orders over R450.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Apetslife.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 2.9 sec and then it took 11.4 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

apetslife.co.za performance score

3

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.1 s

22/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value15.2 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value19.1 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value6,260 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.85

4/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value34.4 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

apetslife.co.za

2895 ms

css

25 ms

bootstrap.min.css

723 ms

bootstrap-responsive.min.css

706 ms

font-awesome.min.css

710 ms

Our browser made a total of 148 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 93% of them (137 requests) were addressed to the original Apetslife.co.za, 3% (4 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 1% (2 requests) were made to Ssl.google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (3.5 sec) belongs to the original domain Apetslife.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.3 MB (67%)

Content Size

1.9 MB

After Optimization

634.6 kB

In fact, the total size of Apetslife.co.za main page is 1.9 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. Javascripts take 1.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-91%

Potential reduce by 122.7 kB

  • Original 135.6 kB
  • After minification 108.0 kB
  • After compression 12.8 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 27.6 kB, which is 20% 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 122.7 kB or 91% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 27.7 kB

  • Original 374.9 kB
  • After minification 347.2 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. A Pet S Life images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 823.7 kB

  • Original 1.0 MB
  • After minification 747.6 kB
  • After compression 212.2 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 823.7 kB or 80% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 341.2 kB

  • Original 403.6 kB
  • After minification 350.4 kB
  • After compression 62.4 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. Apetslife.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 341.2 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 39 (28%)

Requests Now

141

After Optimization

102

The browser has sent 141 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of A Pet S Life. 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 17 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

apetslife.co.za accessibility score

64

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

button, link, and menuitem elements do not have accessible names.

High

ARIA IDs are not unique

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

List items (<li>) are not contained within <ul> or <ol> parent elements.

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

apetslife.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

apetslife.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

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Apetslife.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 Apetslife.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 A Pet S Life. 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: