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Report Summary

  • 49

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    67% of other websites

  • 67

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 32% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    20% of websites

  • 67

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    26% of websites

arctec.co.za

Arctec - Packaging Machines | Packaging Machinery | Taopix Software

Page Load Speed

5.6 sec in total

First Response

345 ms

Resources Loaded

5.1 sec

Page Rendered

111 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Arctec.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 345 ms and then it took 5.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 75% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

arctec.co.za performance score

49

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value7.4 s

1/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.2 s

2/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value14.1 s

1/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value100 ms

98/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.008

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value8.9 s

34/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

345 ms

global.css

303 ms

features.css

601 ms

menu.css

608 ms

menu-custom.css

603 ms

Our browser made a total of 41 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 90% of them (37 requests) were addressed to the original Arctec.co.za, 5% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 2% (1 request) were made to V2.zopim.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.4 sec) belongs to the original domain Arctec.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 27.5 kB (11%)

Content Size

260.2 kB

After Optimization

232.7 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript

In fact, the total size of Arctec.co.za main page is 260.2 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. 30% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 169.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-71%

Potential reduce by 11.2 kB

  • Original 15.8 kB
  • After minification 14.9 kB
  • After compression 4.5 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 11.2 kB or 71% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 8.4 kB

  • Original 169.7 kB
  • After minification 161.3 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. Arctec images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-11%

Potential reduce by 7.9 kB

  • Original 74.7 kB
  • After minification 72.2 kB
  • After compression 66.8 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 7.9 kB or 11% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 22 (61%)

Requests Now

36

After Optimization

14

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 36 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Arctec. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 11 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

345 ms

global.css

global.css

303 ms

features.css

features.css

601 ms

menu.css

menu.css

608 ms

menu-custom.css

menu-custom.css

603 ms

arctec-theme.css

arctec-theme.css

614 ms

udm-purecss.css

udm-purecss.css

622 ms

udm-custom.js

udm-custom.js

624 ms

udm-control.js

udm-control.js

899 ms

jquery-1.4.2.min.js

jquery-1.4.2.min.js

1195 ms

jquery-ui-dialog.min.js

jquery-ui-dialog.min.js

910 ms

add-to-cart.js

add-to-cart.js

919 ms

udm-dom.js

udm-dom.js

931 ms

udm-mod-keyboard.js

udm-mod-keyboard.js

934 ms

udm-x-autosizing.js

udm-x-autosizing.js

1203 ms

flashdetect.js

flashdetect.js

1220 ms

shadow.jpg

shadow.jpg

330 ms

background.jpg

background.jpg

297 ms

logo3.png

logo3.png

595 ms

go.gif

go.gif

311 ms

default.jpg

default.jpg

619 ms

print.jpg

print.jpg

612 ms

finishing.jpg

finishing.jpg

633 ms

packaging.jpg

packaging.jpg

591 ms

automation.jpg

automation.jpg

926 ms

news_heading.jpg

news_heading.jpg

887 ms

news.jpg

news.jpg

891 ms

subscribe.gif

subscribe.gif

914 ms

shadow.png

shadow.png

916 ms

top_back.png

top_back.png

931 ms

shadow.jpg

shadow.jpg

1171 ms

v2.zopim.com

v2.zopim.com

38 ms

news_back.jpg

news_back.jpg

1169 ms

right_arrow.gif

right_arrow.gif

1196 ms

subscribe_back.jpg

subscribe_back.jpg

1216 ms

shadow_bottom.png

shadow_bottom.png

1219 ms

bottom_links_back.jpg

bottom_links_back.jpg

1233 ms

ga.js

ga.js

8 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

13 ms

ui-bg_highlight-soft_100_bdd0d4_1x100.png

ui-bg_highlight-soft_100_bdd0d4_1x100.png

1424 ms

asset_composer.js

asset_composer.js

43 ms

Accessibility Review

arctec.co.za accessibility score

67

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

arctec.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

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

arctec.co.za SEO score

67

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Arctec.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 Arctec.co.za main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

arctec.co.za

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