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Report Summary

  • 18

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    34% of other websites

  • 89

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 71% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

bidorbuy.co.za

Bob Shop online shopping South Africa | bid or buy today

Page Load Speed

8 sec in total

First Response

519 ms

Resources Loaded

6.6 sec

Page Rendered

883 ms

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Bidorbuy.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 519 ms and then it took 7.5 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

bidorbuy.co.za performance score

18

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.8 s

5/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.9 s

6/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value12.4 s

3/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,080 ms

2/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.01

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value19.1 s

3/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

bidorbuy.co.za

519 ms

bidorbuy.co.za

909 ms

www.bobshop.co.za

1179 ms

webfonts-047.css

467 ms

global-component-084.css

907 ms

Our browser made a total of 96 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (2 requests) were addressed to the original Bidorbuy.co.za, 41% (39 requests) were made to Bobshop.co.za and 38% (36 requests) were made to Img.bidorbuy.co.za. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.5 sec) relates to the external source Bobshop.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 225.2 kB (17%)

Content Size

1.4 MB

After Optimization

1.1 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Bidorbuy.co.za main page is 1.4 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. 75% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Images take 651.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-88%

Potential reduce by 204.6 kB

  • Original 233.8 kB
  • After minification 199.2 kB
  • After compression 29.2 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 34.6 kB, which is 15% 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 204.6 kB or 88% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 18.6 kB

  • Original 651.6 kB
  • After minification 633.0 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. Bid Or Buy images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 102 B

  • Original 338.5 kB
  • After minification 338.5 kB
  • After compression 338.4 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

-1%

Potential reduce by 1.9 kB

  • Original 138.4 kB
  • After minification 138.4 kB
  • After compression 136.4 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. Bidorbuy.co.za has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 18 (21%)

Requests Now

86

After Optimization

68

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 86 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Bid Or Buy. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 11 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

bidorbuy.co.za accessibility score

89

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.

Best Practices

bidorbuy.co.za best practices score

75

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

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

bidorbuy.co.za SEO score

86

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

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 Bidorbuy.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 Bidorbuy.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 Bid Or Buy. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: