Report Summary

  • 7

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    22% of other websites

  • 63

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 28% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 85

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    56% of websites

archivestore.co.za

Archive Online Shopping in South Africa | Bash

Page Load Speed

9.7 sec in total

First Response

336 ms

Resources Loaded

8.7 sec

Page Rendered

721 ms

archivestore.co.za screenshot

About Website

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

Shop from Archive Online on Bash, South Africa's largest omni-channel fashion & lifestyle shopping platform. Brought to you by The Foschini Group (TFG).

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Key Findings

We analyzed Archivestore.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 336 ms and then it took 9.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 85% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

archivestore.co.za performance score

7

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.4 s

2/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value25.4 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value30.8 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value24,190 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.258

48/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value38.8 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

archivestore.co.za

336 ms

home;jsessionid=69Loi7aqGKMOycC2p5H_UC6HYNIbsp1QLprqD17c.tfg-prd-com-112

880 ms

gtm.js

159 ms

sportscene-2022.1.3.css

266 ms

421x57

130 ms

Our browser made a total of 96 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (2 requests) were addressed to the original Archivestore.co.za, 45% (43 requests) were made to Image.tfgmedia.co.za and 18% (17 requests) were made to Vml.tfgmedia.co.za. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (4.1 sec) relates to the external source D930.devatics.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 381.8 kB (23%)

Content Size

1.6 MB

After Optimization

1.2 MB

In fact, the total size of Archivestore.co.za main page is 1.6 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. 80% 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 952.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-90%

Potential reduce by 377.1 kB

  • Original 417.8 kB
  • After minification 380.7 kB
  • After compression 40.7 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 377.1 kB or 90% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 4.4 kB

  • Original 952.6 kB
  • After minification 948.1 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. Archive Store images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 272 B

  • Original 32.2 kB
  • After minification 32.2 kB
  • After compression 32.0 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

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 227.9 kB
  • After minification 227.9 kB
  • After compression 227.9 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. Archivestore.co.za has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 18 (25%)

Requests Now

73

After Optimization

55

The browser has sent 73 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Archive Store. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 19 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

archivestore.co.za accessibility score

63

Accessibility Issues

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.

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

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

Lists do not contain only <li> elements and script supporting elements (<script> and <template>).

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Some elements have a [tabindex] value greater than 0

Best Practices

archivestore.co.za best practices score

75

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

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

archivestore.co.za SEO score

85

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

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Archivestore.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 Archivestore.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 Archive Store. 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: