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Report Summary

  • 27

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    46% of other websites

  • 57

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 24% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    20% of websites

  • 67

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    26% of websites

consumervoice.co.za

Consumer Voice - News, Customer Comments, Reviews, Articles

Page Load Speed

3.8 sec in total

First Response

829 ms

Resources Loaded

2.9 sec

Page Rendered

109 ms

About Website

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

Recommend exceptional products and service. Suggest enhancements to products and service. Complain about inferior products or service. Brand news, comments, reviews and articles.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Consumervoice.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 829 ms and then it took 3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 55% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

consumervoice.co.za performance score

27

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.3 s

7/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.8 s

7/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.9 s

23/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,560 ms

13/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.005

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value8.7 s

36/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

consumervoice.co.za

829 ms

main.css

272 ms

styles.css

494 ms

diapo.css

494 ms

jquery.min.js

979 ms

Our browser made a total of 16 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 75% of them (12 requests) were addressed to the original Consumervoice.co.za, 13% (2 requests) were made to W.sharethis.com and 13% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.4 sec) belongs to the original domain Consumervoice.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 158.9 kB (49%)

Content Size

323.2 kB

After Optimization

164.3 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Consumervoice.co.za main page is 323.2 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. 25% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 237.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-69%

Potential reduce by 4.2 kB

  • Original 6.1 kB
  • After minification 5.0 kB
  • After compression 1.9 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 1.1 kB, which is 18% 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 4.2 kB or 69% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 2.3 kB

  • Original 66.9 kB
  • After minification 64.6 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. Consumer Voice images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-60%

Potential reduce by 142.7 kB

  • Original 237.5 kB
  • After minification 195.0 kB
  • After compression 94.8 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 142.7 kB or 60% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 9.7 kB

  • Original 12.7 kB
  • After minification 10.4 kB
  • After compression 3.0 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. Consumervoice.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 9.7 kB or 77% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 6 (43%)

Requests Now

14

After Optimization

8

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 14 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Consumer Voice. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 7 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

consumervoice.co.za accessibility score

57

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.

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

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

Best Practices

consumervoice.co.za best practices score

58

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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

consumervoice.co.za SEO score

67

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Consumervoice.co.za can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Consumervoice.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 Consumer Voice. 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: