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Report Summary

  • 18

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    34% of other websites

  • 73

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 38% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 75

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    32% of websites

buildmate.co.za

Buildmate Building Material Suppliers in South Africa

Page Load Speed

6.6 sec in total

First Response

986 ms

Resources Loaded

5.4 sec

Page Rendered

296 ms

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Buildmate.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 986 ms and then it took 5.6 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

buildmate.co.za performance score

18

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.2 s

42/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value14.8 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value12.1 s

3/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,820 ms

9/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.176

68/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value20.9 s

2/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

buildmate.co.za

986 ms

9b921c956260838e4cc5cd1212df5c73.css

1424 ms

styles-l.css

950 ms

css

32 ms

css2

53 ms

Our browser made a total of 168 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 88% of them (148 requests) were addressed to the original Buildmate.co.za, 3% (5 requests) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com and 2% (4 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.4 sec) belongs to the original domain Buildmate.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 169.2 kB (10%)

Content Size

1.7 MB

After Optimization

1.5 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Buildmate.co.za main page is 1.7 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 154.9 kB

  • Original 180.0 kB
  • After minification 176.9 kB
  • After compression 25.0 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 154.9 kB or 86% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 1.5 kB

  • Original 1.3 MB
  • After minification 1.3 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. Buildmate images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 85 B

  • Original 22.5 kB
  • After minification 22.5 kB
  • After compression 22.4 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

-7%

Potential reduce by 12.7 kB

  • Original 190.7 kB
  • After minification 190.7 kB
  • After compression 178.0 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. Buildmate.co.za has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 130 (82%)

Requests Now

159

After Optimization

29

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 159 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Buildmate. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 118 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 14 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

buildmate.co.za accessibility score

73

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

[id] attributes on active, focusable elements are not unique

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

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

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

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

buildmate.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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

buildmate.co.za SEO score

75

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 Buildmate.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 Buildmate.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 Buildmate. 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: