Tools & Wizards About Us

Report Summary

  • 47

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    65% of other websites

  • 92

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 78% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 82

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    44% of websites

bamboobeat.co.za

Digital Signage Solution, Digital Marketing Agency, Restaurant Menu Board - Bamboobeat

Page Load Speed

4.9 sec in total

First Response

756 ms

Resources Loaded

3.7 sec

Page Rendered

363 ms

About Website

Welcome to bamboobeat.co.za homepage info - get ready to check Bamboobeat best content right away, or after learning these important things about bamboobeat.co.za

BBM is a dynamic digital solutions company specialising in digital signage, retail analytics and audience measurement for the retail, hospitality and commercial sectors across South Africa and the glo...

Visit bamboobeat.co.za

Key Findings

We analyzed Bamboobeat.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 756 ms and then it took 4.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 65% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

bamboobeat.co.za performance score

47

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.0 s

24/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.6 s

8/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.8 s

35/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value370 ms

71/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.001

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value9.8 s

28/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

bamboobeat.co.za

756 ms

www.bbmdigital.co.za

1137 ms

bamboobeat-media.css

255 ms

all.min.css

22 ms

banner-style-9.css

495 ms

Our browser made a total of 24 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 4% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Bamboobeat.co.za, 63% (15 requests) were made to Bbmdigital.co.za and 17% (4 requests) were made to Cdnjs.cloudflare.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.3 sec) relates to the external source Bbmdigital.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 58.5 kB (11%)

Content Size

539.4 kB

After Optimization

481.0 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Bamboobeat.co.za main page is 539.4 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. 40% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 500.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 16.4 kB

  • Original 21.1 kB
  • After minification 18.8 kB
  • After compression 4.7 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 2.3 kB, which is 11% 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 16.4 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 28.1 kB

  • Original 500.2 kB
  • After minification 472.1 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. Bamboobeat images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-18%

Potential reduce by 350 B

  • Original 2.0 kB
  • After minification 2.0 kB
  • After compression 1.6 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 350 B or 18% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 13.6 kB

  • Original 16.2 kB
  • After minification 4.1 kB
  • After compression 2.5 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. Bamboobeat.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 13.6 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 4 (25%)

Requests Now

16

After Optimization

12

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 16 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Bamboobeat. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

bamboobeat.co.za accessibility score

92

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Lists do not contain only <li> elements and script supporting elements (<script> and <template>).

Best Practices

bamboobeat.co.za best practices score

92

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

SEO Factors

bamboobeat.co.za SEO score

82

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

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 Bamboobeat.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 Bamboobeat.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 Bamboobeat. 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: