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Report Summary

  • 72

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    82% of other websites

  • 89

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 71% of websites

  • 50

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    19% of websites

  • 85

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    55% of websites

cycletrends.co.za

Cycle Trends - Cycle and Technical Analysis Software

Page Load Speed

4.8 sec in total

First Response

472 ms

Resources Loaded

4.3 sec

Page Rendered

105 ms

About Website

Click here to check amazing Cycle Trends content. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about cycletrends.co.za

Cycle Trends is a stock market software program using cycle and technical analysis to forecast the peaks, lows and trends of all aspects of worlwide financial markets

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Key Findings

We analyzed Cycletrends.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 472 ms and then it took 4.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 70% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

cycletrends.co.za performance score

72

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.2 s

42/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.8 s

56/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value21.9 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value40 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value4.3 s

84/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

cycletrends.co.za

472 ms

cycletrends.co.za

1253 ms

mootools.js

1126 ms

utils.js

1146 ms

jcebox.css

935 ms

Our browser made a total of 18 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 83% of them (15 requests) were addressed to the original Cycletrends.co.za, 11% (2 requests) were made to Connect.facebook.net and 6% (1 request) were made to Facebook.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.9 sec) belongs to the original domain Cycletrends.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 281.8 kB (64%)

Content Size

442.9 kB

After Optimization

161.1 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Cycletrends.co.za main page is 442.9 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. 30% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 192.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-73%

Potential reduce by 17.3 kB

  • Original 23.5 kB
  • After minification 22.1 kB
  • After compression 6.2 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. 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 17.3 kB or 73% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-9%

Potential reduce by 7.4 kB

  • Original 84.4 kB
  • After minification 77.0 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. Cycle Trends images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-72%

Potential reduce by 138.1 kB

  • Original 192.7 kB
  • After minification 176.1 kB
  • After compression 54.7 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 138.1 kB or 72% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 119.0 kB

  • Original 142.2 kB
  • After minification 137.0 kB
  • After compression 23.2 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. Cycletrends.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 119.0 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 9 (56%)

Requests Now

16

After Optimization

7

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 16 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Cycle Trends. 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 from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

cycletrends.co.za accessibility score

89

Accessibility Issues

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

<object> elements do not have alternate text

Best Practices

cycletrends.co.za best practices score

50

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

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

cycletrends.co.za SEO score

85

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 doesn't use legible font sizes

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

High

Document uses plugins

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Cycletrends.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 Cycletrends.co.za main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Cycle Trends. 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: