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Report Summary

  • 25

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    44% of other websites

  • 94

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 83% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 89

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    66% of websites

netgen.co.za

Custom software development and support for more than 20 years.

Page Load Speed

6.8 sec in total

First Response

513 ms

Resources Loaded

3.5 sec

Page Rendered

2.8 sec

About Website

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Netgen is a leading custom software development company in Cape Town & Johannesburg, South Africa. Bespoke software development and apps.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Netgen.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 513 ms and then it took 6.3 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

netgen.co.za performance score

25

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.0 s

48/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.5 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.8 s

10/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,750 ms

10/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.005

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value15.1 s

7/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

netgen.co.za

513 ms

www.netgen.co.za

678 ms

main.min.css

272 ms

content__astra-local-fonts__astra-local-fonts-css-v5228e0617853cc3d648708e43cb207c11ede8f1b.css

192 ms

style.min.css

314 ms

Our browser made a total of 84 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 81% of them (68 requests) were addressed to the original Netgen.co.za, 7% (6 requests) were made to Use.fontawesome.com and 5% (4 requests) were made to Bat.bing.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (971 ms) belongs to the original domain Netgen.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 427.8 kB (21%)

Content Size

2.0 MB

After Optimization

1.6 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Netgen.co.za main page is 2.0 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 314.2 kB

  • Original 381.2 kB
  • After minification 378.5 kB
  • After compression 67.0 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. 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 314.2 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 16.7 kB

  • Original 1.3 MB
  • After minification 1.3 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. Netgen images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 545 B

  • Original 116.2 kB
  • After minification 116.2 kB
  • After compression 115.6 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

-55%

Potential reduce by 96.4 kB

  • Original 174.4 kB
  • After minification 174.2 kB
  • After compression 78.0 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. Netgen.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 96.4 kB or 55% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 36 (47%)

Requests Now

77

After Optimization

41

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 77 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Netgen. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 24 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 14 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

netgen.co.za accessibility score

94

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

netgen.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

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

netgen.co.za SEO score

89

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

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