Report Summary

  • 35

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    55% of other websites

  • 81

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 52% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 79

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    40% of websites

assist247.co.za

Assist247 - SA's Interactive Services Directory with Live Support

Page Load Speed

9.9 sec in total

First Response

1.5 sec

Resources Loaded

6.8 sec

Page Rendered

1.5 sec

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Key Findings

We analyzed Assist247.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 1.5 sec and then it took 8.3 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

assist247.co.za performance score

35

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.4 s

7/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.1 s

12/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value10.0 s

9/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value530 ms

55/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.124

83/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value12.7 s

13/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.assist247.co.za

1537 ms

global.css

694 ms

home.css

698 ms

default_searchboxes.css

475 ms

standard_head.js

482 ms

Our browser made a total of 87 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 78% of them (68 requests) were addressed to the original Assist247.co.za, 8% (7 requests) were made to Apis.google.com and 2% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.9 sec) belongs to the original domain Assist247.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 751.3 kB (80%)

Content Size

939.4 kB

After Optimization

188.1 kB

In fact, the total size of Assist247.co.za main page is 939.4 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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 674.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 126.6 kB

  • Original 158.8 kB
  • After minification 150.7 kB
  • After compression 32.2 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 126.6 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-13%

Potential reduce by 9.1 kB

  • Original 70.9 kB
  • After minification 61.8 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. Obviously, Assist247 needs image optimization as it can save up to 9.1 kB or 13% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 585.7 kB

  • Original 674.4 kB
  • After minification 649.2 kB
  • After compression 88.6 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 585.7 kB or 87% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 29.8 kB

  • Original 35.4 kB
  • After minification 22.5 kB
  • After compression 5.6 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. Assist247.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 29.8 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 48 (57%)

Requests Now

84

After Optimization

36

The browser has sent 84 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Assist247. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 17 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

assist247.co.za accessibility score

81

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

High

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

assist247.co.za best practices score

67

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

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

assist247.co.za SEO score

79

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Assist247.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 Assist247.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 data is detected on the main page of Assist247. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: