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Report Summary

  • 23

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    41% of other websites

  • 87

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 66% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    94% of websites

benchmarksports.co.za

Sportswear Manufacturer - Benchmark Sports Apparel

Page Load Speed

5.6 sec in total

First Response

236 ms

Resources Loaded

4.7 sec

Page Rendered

650 ms

About Website

Visit benchmarksports.co.za now to see the best up-to-date Benchmark Sports content and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about benchmarksports.co.za

Sportswear Manufacturer | Custom Apparel | Why Us? At BSA our purpose is to deliver high-quality sportswear by providing a design and manufacturing platform .

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Key Findings

We analyzed Benchmarksports.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 236 ms and then it took 5.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 75% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

benchmarksports.co.za performance score

23

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.1 s

9/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.6 s

8/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value13.9 s

1/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,390 ms

16/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.007

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value28.1 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

benchmarksports.co.za

236 ms

benchmarksports.co.za

470 ms

js

90 ms

formidableforms.css

170 ms

css2

60 ms

Our browser made a total of 175 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 80% of them (140 requests) were addressed to the original Benchmarksports.co.za, 14% (24 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 3% (5 requests) were made to Use.fontawesome.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.4 sec) belongs to the original domain Benchmarksports.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 166.4 kB (3%)

Content Size

5.2 MB

After Optimization

5.0 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Benchmarksports.co.za main page is 5.2 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. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Images take 4.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 132.7 kB

  • Original 160.7 kB
  • After minification 151.5 kB
  • After compression 28.0 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 132.7 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 4.1 MB
  • After minification 4.1 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. Benchmark Sports images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 10.3 kB

  • Original 573.8 kB
  • After minification 573.5 kB
  • After compression 563.4 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

-8%

Potential reduce by 23.4 kB

  • Original 309.2 kB
  • After minification 293.9 kB
  • After compression 285.8 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. Benchmarksports.co.za has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 116 (89%)

Requests Now

130

After Optimization

14

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 130 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Benchmark Sports. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 53 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 65 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

benchmarksports.co.za accessibility score

87

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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

benchmarksports.co.za best practices score

75

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

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

benchmarksports.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 Benchmarksports.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 Benchmarksports.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 Benchmark Sports. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: