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Report Summary

  • 36

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    55% 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

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

hlb.co.za

HLB Barnett Chown | HLB: The global advisory and accounting network

Page Load Speed

4.9 sec in total

First Response

450 ms

Resources Loaded

3.8 sec

Page Rendered

655 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Hlb.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 450 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

hlb.co.za performance score

36

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.6 s

33/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value11.4 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value10.2 s

9/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value610 ms

49/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.019

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value11.6 s

18/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.hlb.co.za

450 ms

js

95 ms

style.min.css

335 ms

owl.carousel.min.css

277 ms

idm-extension.css

277 ms

Our browser made a total of 67 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 87% of them (58 requests) were addressed to the original Hlb.co.za, 6% (4 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 4% (3 requests) were made to Mrpnoml.hlb.network. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.7 sec) belongs to the original domain Hlb.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 442.1 kB (25%)

Content Size

1.8 MB

After Optimization

1.3 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Hlb.co.za main page is 1.8 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 811.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 432.4 kB

  • Original 521.2 kB
  • After minification 514.7 kB
  • After compression 88.8 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 432.4 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 8.7 kB

  • Original 811.0 kB
  • After minification 802.3 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. HLB images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 375 B

  • Original 362.9 kB
  • After minification 362.9 kB
  • After compression 362.6 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

-1%

Potential reduce by 566 B

  • Original 95.4 kB
  • After minification 95.2 kB
  • After compression 94.9 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. Hlb.co.za has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 33 (57%)

Requests Now

58

After Optimization

25

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 58 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of HLB. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 22 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

hlb.co.za accessibility score

83

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

hlb.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

hlb.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

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

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