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Report Summary

  • 34

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    54% of other websites

  • 93

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 80% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    94% of websites

arthurbales.co.za

Online Haberdashery Shop | Kitting | Fabrics | Quilting | Craft | Arthur Bales

Page Load Speed

9.6 sec in total

First Response

945 ms

Resources Loaded

8.2 sec

Page Rendered

460 ms

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About Website

Click here to check amazing Arthur Bales content. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about arthurbales.co.za

Arthur Bales is one of South Africa’s oldest running haberdasheries. Founded in 1902, we are your one stop online haberdashery shop.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Arthurbales.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 945 ms and then it took 8.6 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

arthurbales.co.za performance score

34

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.9 s

4/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.9 s

14/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value12.3 s

3/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value640 ms

47/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.007

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value16.5 s

5/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

arthurbales.co.za

945 ms

arthurbales.co.za

2699 ms

styles.css

642 ms

wpcf7-redirect-frontend.min.css

966 ms

paygate_checkout.css

967 ms

Our browser made a total of 60 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 93% of them (56 requests) were addressed to the original Arthurbales.co.za, 2% (1 request) were made to Googletagmanager.com and 2% (1 request) were made to Google.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.9 sec) belongs to the original domain Arthurbales.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 167.0 kB (7%)

Content Size

2.3 MB

After Optimization

2.2 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Arthurbales.co.za main page is 2.3 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. 35% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.8 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 102.7 kB

  • Original 124.5 kB
  • After minification 115.5 kB
  • After compression 21.8 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. 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 102.7 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 60.9 kB

  • Original 1.8 MB
  • After minification 1.8 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. Arthur Bales images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 2.7 kB

  • Original 342.8 kB
  • After minification 342.8 kB
  • After compression 340.1 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 603 B

  • Original 41.8 kB
  • After minification 41.6 kB
  • After compression 41.2 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. Arthurbales.co.za has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 36 (63%)

Requests Now

57

After Optimization

21

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 57 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Arthur Bales. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 30 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 8 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

arthurbales.co.za

arthurbales.co.za

945 ms

arthurbales.co.za

arthurbales.co.za

2699 ms

styles.css

styles.css

642 ms

wpcf7-redirect-frontend.min.css

wpcf7-redirect-frontend.min.css

966 ms

paygate_checkout.css

paygate_checkout.css

967 ms

style.css

style.css

970 ms

flatsome.css

flatsome.css

1305 ms

flatsome-shop.css

flatsome-shop.css

994 ms

style.css

style.css

991 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

1612 ms

jquery-migrate.min.js

jquery-migrate.min.js

1290 ms

jquery.blockUI.min.js

jquery.blockUI.min.js

1298 ms

add-to-cart.min.js

add-to-cart.min.js

1324 ms

js.cookie.min.js

js.cookie.min.js

1325 ms

js

js

68 ms

wc-blocks.css

wc-blocks.css

1522 ms

hooks.min.js

hooks.min.js

1523 ms

i18n.min.js

i18n.min.js

1523 ms

index.js

index.js

1524 ms

index.js

index.js

1525 ms

woocommerce.min.js

woocommerce.min.js

1621 ms

wpcf7r-fe.js

wpcf7r-fe.js

1629 ms

site_main.js

site_main.js

1639 ms

awdr-dynamic-price.js

awdr-dynamic-price.js

1645 ms

mailchimp-woocommerce-public.min.js

mailchimp-woocommerce-public.min.js

1676 ms

flatsome-live-search.js

flatsome-live-search.js

1677 ms

paygate_paymethod.js

paygate_paymethod.js

1945 ms

paygate_checkout.js

paygate_checkout.js

1953 ms

sourcebuster.min.js

sourcebuster.min.js

1966 ms

order-attribution.min.js

order-attribution.min.js

1972 ms

scripts.js

scripts.js

2010 ms

api.js

api.js

49 ms

wp-polyfill.min.js

wp-polyfill.min.js

2009 ms

index.js

index.js

2272 ms

hoverIntent.min.js

hoverIntent.min.js

2281 ms

flatsome.js

flatsome.js

2614 ms

woocommerce.js

woocommerce.js

2303 ms

cart-fragments.min.js

cart-fragments.min.js

2345 ms

logo.png

logo.png

932 ms

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2466 ms

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2155 ms

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1231 ms

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2249 ms

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2250 ms

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1530 ms

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1549 ms

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2500 ms

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2524 ms

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2479 ms

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2585 ms

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2584 ms

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2686 ms

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PayGate_DPO_Company.png

2699 ms

PayGate-Card-Brand-Logo-MasterCard.png

PayGate-Card-Brand-Logo-MasterCard.png

2720 ms

MasterCard-SecureCode.png

MasterCard-SecureCode.png

2745 ms

Visa.png

Visa.png

2812 ms

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fl-icons.ttf

2810 ms

022eeb0bd36ee75feb6e24283.js

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178 ms

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Verified-by-Visa.png

2911 ms

recaptcha__en.js

recaptcha__en.js

23 ms

Accessibility Review

arthurbales.co.za accessibility score

93

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

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

arthurbales.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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

arthurbales.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 Arthurbales.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 Arthurbales.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

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