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Report Summary

  • 52

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    69% of other websites

  • 96

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 88% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    94% of websites

apexauctions.co.za

Upcoming Auctions | Used Machinery and Industrial Equipment

Page Load Speed

758 ms in total

First Response

16 ms

Resources Loaded

524 ms

Page Rendered

218 ms

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About Website

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

Ready to buy? We hold over 250 used machinery auctions a year, selling in excess of 50,000 items globally. You'll be sure to find what you're looking for in one of our auctions.

Visit apexauctions.co.za

Key Findings

We analyzed Apexauctions.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 16 ms and then it took 742 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 15% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

apexauctions.co.za performance score

52

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.5 s

68/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.3 s

70/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.4 s

90/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,840 ms

9/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.004

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value16.0 s

6/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

apexauctions.co.za

16 ms

apexauctions.co.za

33 ms

www.apexauctions.co.za

96 ms

gtm.js

73 ms

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44 ms

Our browser made a total of 18 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 50% of them (9 requests) were addressed to the original Apexauctions.co.za, 22% (4 requests) were made to and 11% (2 requests) were made to Images.prismic.io. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (352 ms) relates to the external source Static.bidjs.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 228.9 kB (58%)

Content Size

392.0 kB

After Optimization

163.2 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Apexauctions.co.za main page is 392.0 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. Only 10% of websites need less resources to load. HTML takes 308.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-74%

Potential reduce by 228.6 kB

  • Original 308.2 kB
  • After minification 307.1 kB
  • After compression 79.7 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 228.6 kB or 74% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 110 B

  • Original 45.1 kB
  • After minification 45.0 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. Apex Auctions images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 14 B

  • Original 9.6 kB
  • After minification 9.6 kB
  • After compression 9.6 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 154 B

  • Original 29.1 kB
  • After minification 29.1 kB
  • After compression 29.0 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. Apexauctions.co.za has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 4 (50%)

Requests Now

8

After Optimization

4

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 8 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Apex Auctions. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 5 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

apexauctions.co.za

apexauctions.co.za

16 ms

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33 ms

www.apexauctions.co.za

www.apexauctions.co.za

96 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

73 ms

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44 ms

bidjs--full.min.css

bidjs--full.min.css

352 ms

prismic.js

prismic.js

20 ms

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webpack-runtime-094b18eb30a2a54cbcf4.js

87 ms

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150 ms

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app-b89ca82672827c13b85f.js

135 ms

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24 ms

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32 ms

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97 ms

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1 ms

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2 ms

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87 ms

Accessibility Review

apexauctions.co.za accessibility score

96

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

apexauctions.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

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

apexauctions.co.za SEO score

100

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

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 Apexauctions.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 Apexauctions.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

apexauctions.co.za

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