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Report Summary

  • 15

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    27% of other websites

  • 80

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 49% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 89

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    66% of websites

greenbuildingafrica.co.za

Green Building Africa | GBA Digital Media Group | #netcarbonzero

Page Load Speed

11.5 sec in total

First Response

1.4 sec

Resources Loaded

9.5 sec

Page Rendered

528 ms

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Greenbuildingafrica.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 1.4 sec and then it took 10.1 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

greenbuildingafrica.co.za performance score

15

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.4 s

6/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value16.4 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value17.8 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,020 ms

2/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.095

91/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value22.2 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.greenbuildingafrica.co.za

1427 ms

api.js

56 ms

style.min.css

261 ms

secure-copy-content-protection-public.css

517 ms

if-menu-site.css

734 ms

Our browser made a total of 138 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 84% of them (116 requests) were addressed to the original Greenbuildingafrica.co.za, 4% (6 requests) were made to Youtube.com and 4% (5 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.2 sec) belongs to the original domain Greenbuildingafrica.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 786.6 kB (15%)

Content Size

5.1 MB

After Optimization

4.3 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Greenbuildingafrica.co.za main page is 5.1 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. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Images take 3.6 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 188.9 kB

  • Original 221.1 kB
  • After minification 210.9 kB
  • After compression 32.2 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 188.9 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 236.2 kB

  • Original 3.6 MB
  • After minification 3.3 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. Green Building Africa images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 17.4 kB

  • Original 821.8 kB
  • After minification 821.8 kB
  • After compression 804.4 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

-72%

Potential reduce by 344.1 kB

  • Original 476.4 kB
  • After minification 475.7 kB
  • After compression 132.3 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. Greenbuildingafrica.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 344.1 kB or 72% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 40 (31%)

Requests Now

131

After Optimization

91

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 131 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Green Building Africa. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 26 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 16 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

greenbuildingafrica.co.za accessibility score

80

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

[aria-hidden="true"] elements contain focusable descendents

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

greenbuildingafrica.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

greenbuildingafrica.co.za SEO score

89

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

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Greenbuildingafrica.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 Greenbuildingafrica.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 Green Building Africa. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: