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Report Summary

  • 25

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    44% of other websites

  • 83

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 54% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 91

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    70% of websites

glassguards.co.za

Glass Guards – Architectural Window Film Specialists

Page Load Speed

14.7 sec in total

First Response

5.5 sec

Resources Loaded

8.7 sec

Page Rendered

514 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Glassguards.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 5.5 sec and then it took 9.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 85% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

glassguards.co.za performance score

25

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value7.9 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value83.0 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value28.5 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value940 ms

30/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.034

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value13.6 s

11/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

glassguards.co.za

5512 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

448 ms

css

21 ms

gf-form-multicolumn.css

452 ms

settings.css

687 ms

Our browser made a total of 56 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 82% of them (46 requests) were addressed to the original Glassguards.co.za, 11% (6 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 4% (2 requests) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (5.5 sec) belongs to the original domain Glassguards.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.3 MB (8%)

Content Size

16.3 MB

After Optimization

15.0 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Glassguards.co.za main page is 16.3 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. 55% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 15.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 90.9 kB

  • Original 109.9 kB
  • After minification 104.1 kB
  • After compression 19.0 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 90.9 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 357.0 kB

  • Original 15.1 MB
  • After minification 14.7 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. Glass Guards images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-69%

Potential reduce by 421.3 kB

  • Original 609.8 kB
  • After minification 608.4 kB
  • After compression 188.5 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 421.3 kB or 69% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 419.6 kB

  • Original 500.3 kB
  • After minification 492.8 kB
  • After compression 80.7 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. Glassguards.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 419.6 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 27 (61%)

Requests Now

44

After Optimization

17

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 44 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Glass Guards. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 16 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 13 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

glassguards.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

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

glassguards.co.za best practices score

75

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

SEO Factors

glassguards.co.za SEO score

91

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 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 Glassguards.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 Glassguards.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 Glass Guards. 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: