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Report Summary

  • 50

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    68% of other websites

  • 98

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 94% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    83% of websites

hostafrica.co.za

Best Hosting Provider South Africa - HOSTAFRICA

Page Load Speed

2.6 sec in total

First Response

77 ms

Resources Loaded

983 ms

Page Rendered

1.6 sec

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Key Findings

We analyzed Hostafrica.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 77 ms and then it took 2.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

hostafrica.co.za performance score

50

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.7 s

59/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.5 s

64/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.1 s

93/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,010 ms

7/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.002

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value11.7 s

18/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

hostafrica.co.za

77 ms

hostafrica.co.za

97 ms

gtm.js

108 ms

css2

77 ms

style.min.css

129 ms

Our browser made a total of 65 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 83% of them (54 requests) were addressed to the original Hostafrica.co.za, 3% (2 requests) were made to Cdn.jsdelivr.net and 3% (2 requests) were made to Clarity.ms. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (567 ms) belongs to the original domain Hostafrica.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 739.0 kB (58%)

Content Size

1.3 MB

After Optimization

527.5 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Hostafrica.co.za main page is 1.3 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 865.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 214.1 kB

  • Original 263.5 kB
  • After minification 222.4 kB
  • After compression 49.4 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 41.1 kB, which is 16% 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 214.1 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-61%

Potential reduce by 523.7 kB

  • Original 865.4 kB
  • After minification 341.6 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. Obviously, HOSTAFRICA needs image optimization as it can save up to 523.7 kB or 61% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 640 B

  • Original 75.7 kB
  • After minification 75.7 kB
  • After compression 75.1 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 581 B

  • Original 61.9 kB
  • After minification 61.9 kB
  • After compression 61.3 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. Hostafrica.co.za has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 20 (32%)

Requests Now

62

After Optimization

42

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 62 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of HOSTAFRICA. 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 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

hostafrica.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

hostafrica.co.za best practices score

75

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

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

hostafrica.co.za SEO score

93

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

robots.txt is not valid

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