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Report Summary

  • 46

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    65% of other websites

  • 90

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 74% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 73

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    31% of websites

arm.co.za

African Rainbow Minerals (ARM) » Home

Page Load Speed

7.4 sec in total

First Response

467 ms

Resources Loaded

6.1 sec

Page Rendered

923 ms

About Website

Visit arm.co.za now to see the best up-to-date ARM content for South Africa and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about arm.co.za

African Rainbow Minerals (ARM) is a leading South African diversified mining and minerals company with operations in South Africa and Malaysia. ARM mines and beneficiates iron ore, manganese ore, chro...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Arm.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 467 ms and then it took 7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 80% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

arm.co.za performance score

46

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value7.0 s

1/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value41.5 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value11.2 s

5/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value30 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.164

72/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value8.0 s

43/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

arm.co.za

467 ms

arm.co.za

2317 ms

style.min.css

144 ms

cookie-law-info-public.css

219 ms

cookie-law-info-gdpr.css

223 ms

Our browser made a total of 76 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 89% of them (68 requests) were addressed to the original Arm.co.za, 8% (6 requests) were made to Irhosted.profiledata.co.za and 1% (1 request) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.3 sec) belongs to the original domain Arm.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 2.1 MB (13%)

Content Size

15.7 MB

After Optimization

13.6 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Arm.co.za main page is 15.7 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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 14.5 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 74.6 kB

  • Original 88.0 kB
  • After minification 61.9 kB
  • After compression 13.4 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 26.1 kB, which is 30% 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 74.6 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 1.0 MB

  • Original 14.5 MB
  • After minification 13.4 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. ARM images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 364.0 kB

  • Original 474.5 kB
  • After minification 386.7 kB
  • After compression 110.5 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 364.0 kB or 77% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 592.6 kB

  • Original 682.8 kB
  • After minification 567.5 kB
  • After compression 90.2 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. Arm.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 592.6 kB or 87% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 32 (45%)

Requests Now

71

After Optimization

39

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 71 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of ARM. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 15 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 19 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

arm.co.za accessibility score

90

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

Best Practices

arm.co.za best practices score

83

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

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

arm.co.za SEO score

73

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

Links do not have descriptive text

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

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 Arm.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 Arm.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 ARM. 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: