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Report Summary

  • 88

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    90% of other websites

  • 88

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 68% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 97

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    91% of websites

brandgear.co.za

BrandGear - Corporate Clothing & Promotional Gifts, Cape Town Western Cape

Page Load Speed

1.4 sec in total

First Response

26 ms

Resources Loaded

1 sec

Page Rendered

321 ms

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Brandgear.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 26 ms and then it took 1.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 30% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

brandgear.co.za performance score

88

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.4 s

70/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.4 s

67/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value2.8 s

95/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.065

97/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value2.4 s

98/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

brandgear.co.za

26 ms

brandgear.co.za

621 ms

all.css

110 ms

awesomplete.css

15 ms

joomla-alert.min.css

28 ms

Our browser made a total of 67 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 94% of them (63 requests) were addressed to the original Brandgear.co.za, 6% (4 requests) were made to Use.fontawesome.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (621 ms) belongs to the original domain Brandgear.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 142.9 kB (25%)

Content Size

562.8 kB

After Optimization

419.8 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Brandgear.co.za main page is 562.8 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. 55% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 261.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-88%

Potential reduce by 96.8 kB

  • Original 110.1 kB
  • After minification 110.1 kB
  • After compression 13.3 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 96.8 kB or 88% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-14%

Potential reduce by 37.9 kB

  • Original 261.3 kB
  • After minification 223.4 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. Obviously, Brand Gear needs image optimization as it can save up to 37.9 kB or 14% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 2.8 kB

  • Original 81.2 kB
  • After minification 81.2 kB
  • After compression 78.4 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

-5%

Potential reduce by 5.4 kB

  • Original 110.2 kB
  • After minification 110.2 kB
  • After compression 104.7 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. Brandgear.co.za has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 29 (47%)

Requests Now

62

After Optimization

33

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 62 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Brand Gear. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 21 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 10 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

brandgear.co.za accessibility score

88

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.

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

ARIA IDs are not unique

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

brandgear.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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

brandgear.co.za SEO score

97

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

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 Brandgear.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 Brandgear.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 Brand Gear. 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: