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Report Summary

  • 68

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    80% of other websites

  • 64

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 29% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    20% of websites

  • 79

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    40% of websites

matrixdistribution.co.za

Barcode & Label Printers - MATRIX DISTRIBUTION Distributors of TSC Printers & Scanners in South Africa.

Page Load Speed

6.6 sec in total

First Response

1.1 sec

Resources Loaded

5.3 sec

Page Rendered

215 ms

About Website

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Matrix Distribution are official distributors of the TSC range of label printers in South Africa. TSC are one of the most flexible thermal printer manufacturers in the world, satisfying their customer...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Matrixdistribution.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 1.1 sec and then it took 5.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 75% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

matrixdistribution.co.za performance score

68

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.9 s

26/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.3 s

43/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.7 s

37/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.137

79/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value3.9 s

89/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

matrixdistribution.co.za

1119 ms

layout.css

1552 ms

stylesheet_product.css

1554 ms

stylesheet_faq.css

1582 ms

stylesheet_place.css

1586 ms

Our browser made a total of 34 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 97% of them (33 requests) were addressed to the original Matrixdistribution.co.za, 3% (1 request) were made to Ajax.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.2 sec) belongs to the original domain Matrixdistribution.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 80.4 kB (18%)

Content Size

448.2 kB

After Optimization

367.7 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Matrixdistribution.co.za main page is 448.2 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. 25% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 367.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 15.4 kB

  • Original 20.0 kB
  • After minification 16.0 kB
  • After compression 4.6 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 4.0 kB, which is 20% 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 15.4 kB or 77% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-15%

Potential reduce by 53.8 kB

  • Original 367.0 kB
  • After minification 313.2 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. Obviously, MATRIX DISTRIBUTION needs image optimization as it can save up to 53.8 kB or 15% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 2.0 kB

  • Original 44.1 kB
  • After minification 44.1 kB
  • After compression 42.1 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

-54%

Potential reduce by 9.3 kB

  • Original 17.1 kB
  • After minification 11.2 kB
  • After compression 7.8 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. Matrixdistribution.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 9.3 kB or 54% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 13 (46%)

Requests Now

28

After Optimization

15

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 28 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of MATRIX DISTRIBUTION. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 6 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 9 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

matrixdistribution.co.za accessibility score

64

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

matrixdistribution.co.za best practices score

58

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

matrixdistribution.co.za SEO score

79

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

Links do not have descriptive text

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 Matrixdistribution.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 Matrixdistribution.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 MATRIX DISTRIBUTION. 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: