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Report Summary

  • 52

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    69% of other websites

  • 85

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 58% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 64

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    24% of websites

mipaq.co.za

Mipaq Packaging — MIPAQ is South Africa's premier supplier of packaging equipment, machines and specialised consumables like heat sealers, shrink...

Page Load Speed

2.9 sec in total

First Response

46 ms

Resources Loaded

2.4 sec

Page Rendered

356 ms

About Website

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Mipaq is South Africa’s premier importer and distributor of specialized packaging equipment and consumables. Based in Durban, we supply every major and minor city in the country including Cape Town, J...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Mipaq.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 46 ms and then it took 2.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 55% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

mipaq.co.za performance score

52

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.2 s

43/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value34.7 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value11.5 s

5/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value260 ms

83/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.023

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value5.3 s

72/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.mipaq.co.za

46 ms

style.css

384 ms

style.min.css

165 ms

mediaelementplayer-legacy.min.css

140 ms

wp-mediaelement.min.css

148 ms

Our browser made a total of 90 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 98% of them (88 requests) were addressed to the original Mipaq.co.za, 1% (1 request) were made to Googletagmanager.com and 1% (1 request) were made to Stats.wp.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.2 sec) belongs to the original domain Mipaq.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 341.9 kB (5%)

Content Size

6.9 MB

After Optimization

6.5 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Mipaq.co.za main page is 6.9 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. 50% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 6.7 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 73.1 kB

  • Original 90.8 kB
  • After minification 88.7 kB
  • After compression 17.7 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 73.1 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 265.8 kB

  • Original 6.7 MB
  • After minification 6.4 MB

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. Mipaq images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 47 B

  • Original 52.6 kB
  • After minification 52.6 kB
  • After compression 52.5 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

-8%

Potential reduce by 3.0 kB

  • Original 35.5 kB
  • After minification 35.5 kB
  • After compression 32.5 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. Mipaq.co.za has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 21 (31%)

Requests Now

67

After Optimization

46

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 67 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Mipaq. 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 from 9 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

mipaq.co.za accessibility score

85

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

mipaq.co.za best practices score

67

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

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

mipaq.co.za SEO score

64

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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 Mipaq.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 Mipaq.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 Mipaq. 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: