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Report Summary

  • 18

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    34% of other websites

  • 82

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 52% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

gcsolar.co.za

GC Solar | Bringing Green Energy To Life

Page Load Speed

13.5 sec in total

First Response

2.4 sec

Resources Loaded

10.4 sec

Page Rendered

732 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Gcsolar.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 2.4 sec and then it took 11.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 90% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

gcsolar.co.za performance score

18

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value8.3 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.0 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value17.4 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,770 ms

10/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.037

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value21.9 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

gcsolar.co.za

2384 ms

styles.css

608 ms

mapbox-gl.css

17 ms

swiper-bundle.min.css

912 ms

animate.min.css

917 ms

Our browser made a total of 102 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 75% of them (77 requests) were addressed to the original Gcsolar.co.za, 14% (14 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 5% (5 requests) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (3.7 sec) belongs to the original domain Gcsolar.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 363.2 kB (5%)

Content Size

7.0 MB

After Optimization

6.7 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Gcsolar.co.za main page is 7.0 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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 6.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 115.1 kB

  • Original 137.2 kB
  • After minification 127.7 kB
  • After compression 22.0 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 115.1 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 242.8 kB

  • Original 6.3 MB
  • After minification 6.1 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. GC Solar images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 1.7 kB

  • Original 473.4 kB
  • After minification 473.4 kB
  • After compression 471.7 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 3.5 kB

  • Original 105.4 kB
  • After minification 105.4 kB
  • After compression 101.9 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. Gcsolar.co.za has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 54 (64%)

Requests Now

84

After Optimization

30

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 84 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of GC Solar. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 32 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 24 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

gcsolar.co.za accessibility score

82

Accessibility Issues

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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.

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

gcsolar.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

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

gcsolar.co.za SEO score

86

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

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 Gcsolar.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 Gcsolar.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 GC Solar. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: