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Report Summary

  • 18

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    34% of other websites

  • 83

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 54% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 90

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    68% of websites

digitalexpress.co.za

Digital Express: Printing Company | Printing Cape Town

Page Load Speed

20.9 sec in total

First Response

3.3 sec

Resources Loaded

13.3 sec

Page Rendered

4.3 sec

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Digitalexpress.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 3.3 sec and then it took 17.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is an excellent result, as only a small number of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

digitalexpress.co.za performance score

18

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value13.0 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value17.9 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value26.7 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value720 ms

41/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.319

36/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value33.5 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.digitalexpress.co.za

3297 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

619 ms

style.min.css

1234 ms

front.min.css

753 ms

css

79 ms

Our browser made a total of 96 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 79% of them (76 requests) were addressed to the original Digitalexpress.co.za, 8% (8 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 3% (3 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (3.8 sec) belongs to the original domain Digitalexpress.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 2.3 MB (29%)

Content Size

8.0 MB

After Optimization

5.7 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Digitalexpress.co.za main page is 8.0 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. 80% 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 6.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 110.4 kB

  • Original 134.3 kB
  • After minification 125.9 kB
  • After compression 23.9 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. 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 110.4 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-15%

Potential reduce by 977.1 kB

  • Original 6.4 MB
  • After minification 5.4 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. Obviously, Digital Express needs image optimization as it can save up to 977.1 kB or 15% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-62%

Potential reduce by 154.2 kB

  • Original 250.5 kB
  • After minification 250.0 kB
  • After compression 96.3 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 154.2 kB or 62% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 1.0 MB

  • Original 1.2 MB
  • After minification 1.1 MB
  • After compression 155.5 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. Digitalexpress.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 1.0 MB or 87% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 43 (50%)

Requests Now

86

After Optimization

43

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 86 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Digital Express. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 33 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 12 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

digitalexpress.co.za accessibility score

83

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

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

High

Some elements have a [tabindex] value greater than 0

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

Links do not have a discernible name

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

digitalexpress.co.za best practices score

92

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

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

digitalexpress.co.za SEO score

90

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Digitalexpress.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 Digitalexpress.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 Digital Express. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: