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Report Summary

  • 25

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    44% of other websites

  • 95

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 86% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    83% of websites

4x4hire.co.za

4x4 Hire | Simplified 4x4 Rental | South Africa, Namibia & Botswana

Page Load Speed

2.4 sec in total

First Response

98 ms

Resources Loaded

1.7 sec

Page Rendered

572 ms

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed 4x4hire.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 98 ms and then it took 2.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 45% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

4x4hire.co.za performance score

25

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.1 s

46/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.3 s

10/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.9 s

66/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,610 ms

4/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.194

63/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value18.4 s

3/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

4x4hire.co.za

98 ms

4x4hire.co.za

216 ms

www.4x4hire.co.za

150 ms

4X4_MENU_LOGO_WHITE.png

29 ms

4X4_HERO_IMAGEV2-1-800x400.jpg

1272 ms

Our browser made a total of 126 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 92% of them (116 requests) were addressed to the original 4x4hire.co.za, 6% (8 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 1% (1 request) were made to Fhtest.co.za. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.3 sec) relates to the external source Fhtest.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 240.2 kB (34%)

Content Size

709.7 kB

After Optimization

469.5 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript

In fact, the total size of 4x4hire.co.za main page is 709.7 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. 45% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 269.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 233.2 kB

  • Original 267.6 kB
  • After minification 225.0 kB
  • After compression 34.4 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 42.5 kB, which is 16% of the original size. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 233.2 kB or 87% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 172.4 kB
  • After minification 172.4 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. 4x4 Hire images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 7.0 kB

  • Original 269.8 kB
  • After minification 269.8 kB
  • After compression 262.8 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 104 (92%)

Requests Now

113

After Optimization

9

  • Images
  • JavaScript

The browser has sent 113 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of 4x4 Hire. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 105 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

4x4hire.co.za accessibility score

95

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

Best Practices

4x4hire.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

4x4hire.co.za SEO score

93

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

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 4x4hire.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 4x4hire.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 4x4 Hire. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: