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Report Summary

  • 43

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    62% of other websites

  • 86

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 61% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 90

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    68% of websites

initial.co.za

The Experts In Hygiene Services | Initial Hygiene South Africa

Page Load Speed

2.8 sec in total

First Response

93 ms

Resources Loaded

2.6 sec

Page Rendered

157 ms

About Website

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The leader in the provision of efficient, professional hygiene, washroom and medical waste services to businesses of all kinds in South Africa.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Initial.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 93 ms and then it took 2.7 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

initial.co.za performance score

43

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.3 s

41/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.4 s

20/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.8 s

50/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value710 ms

42/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.091

92/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value10.9 s

21/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

initial.co.za

93 ms

www.initial.co.za

877 ms

requirejs.js

71 ms

OtAutoBlock.js

128 ms

otSDKStub.js

141 ms

Our browser made a total of 17 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 12% of them (2 requests) were addressed to the original Initial.co.za, 53% (9 requests) were made to Cdn.initial.com and 18% (3 requests) were made to Cdn.cookielaw.org. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (877 ms) belongs to the original domain Initial.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 193.2 kB (72%)

Content Size

267.7 kB

After Optimization

74.5 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Initial.co.za main page is 267.7 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. Only 5% of websites need less resources to load. HTML takes 242.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 193.2 kB

  • Original 242.2 kB
  • After minification 224.2 kB
  • After compression 49.1 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 193.2 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 7.2 kB
  • After minification 7.2 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. Initial images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 57 B

  • Original 11.0 kB
  • After minification 11.0 kB
  • After compression 11.0 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

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 7.3 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.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 4 (50%)

Requests Now

8

After Optimization

4

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 8 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Initial. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 5 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

initial.co.za accessibility score

86

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.

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

initial.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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

initial.co.za SEO score

90

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

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