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Report Summary

  • 80

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    86% of other websites

  • 98

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 94% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 98

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    92% of websites

homeboys.co.za

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Page Load Speed

7.7 sec in total

First Response

1.3 sec

Resources Loaded

6.2 sec

Page Rendered

136 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Homeboys.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 1.3 sec and then it took 6.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 80% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

homeboys.co.za performance score

80

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.2 s

42/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.6 s

61/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.8 s

84/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value60 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.091

92/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value4.8 s

79/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

homeboys.co.za

1334 ms

template.css

1888 ms

jquery.min.js

1620 ms

jquery-noconflict.js

803 ms

jquery-migrate.min.js

968 ms

Our browser made a total of 20 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 90% of them (18 requests) were addressed to the original Homeboys.co.za, 5% (1 request) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com and 5% (1 request) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.5 sec) belongs to the original domain Homeboys.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 371.4 kB (76%)

Content Size

488.7 kB

After Optimization

117.4 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Homeboys.co.za main page is 488.7 kB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 20% of websites need less resources to load. CSS take 303.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 12.1 kB

  • Original 16.1 kB
  • After minification 13.9 kB
  • After compression 4.0 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 2.2 kB, which is 14% of the original size. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 12.1 kB or 75% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 280 B

  • Original 19.5 kB
  • After minification 19.2 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. Homeboys images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-67%

Potential reduce by 100.1 kB

  • Original 149.5 kB
  • After minification 144.5 kB
  • After compression 49.4 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 100.1 kB or 67% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 259.0 kB

  • Original 303.7 kB
  • After minification 280.2 kB
  • After compression 44.7 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. Homeboys.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 259.0 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 6 (38%)

Requests Now

16

After Optimization

10

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 16 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Homeboys. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 7 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

homeboys.co.za accessibility score

98

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.

Best Practices

homeboys.co.za best practices score

67

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

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

homeboys.co.za SEO score

98

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 Homeboys.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 Homeboys.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 Homeboys. 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: