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Report Summary

  • 51

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    69% 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

novel.co.za

Home - Novel Marketing South Africa - www.novel.co.za

Page Load Speed

9.6 sec in total

First Response

2.2 sec

Resources Loaded

7.1 sec

Page Rendered

328 ms

About Website

Visit novel.co.za now to see the best up-to-date Novel content and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about novel.co.za

Novel Marketing is the holding company for Novel Print, Novel Gifts and Boksupporters in South Africa. Products include luxury business cards & beaded gifts

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Key Findings

We analyzed Novel.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 2.2 sec and then it took 7.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 85% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

novel.co.za performance score

51

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.0 s

9/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.5 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value10.5 s

7/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value60 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.003

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value7.8 s

45/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.novel.co.za

2187 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

239 ms

style.min.css

477 ms

theme.min.css

709 ms

style.css

711 ms

Our browser made a total of 40 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 85% of them (34 requests) were addressed to the original Novel.co.za, 13% (5 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 3% (1 request) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.2 sec) belongs to the original domain Novel.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 46.2 kB (20%)

Content Size

229.9 kB

After Optimization

183.8 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Novel.co.za main page is 229.9 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. 35% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 69.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 32.7 kB

  • Original 41.5 kB
  • After minification 40.4 kB
  • After compression 8.8 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 32.7 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-9%

Potential reduce by 6.6 kB

  • Original 69.9 kB
  • After minification 63.3 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. Novel images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 241 B

  • Original 55.2 kB
  • After minification 55.2 kB
  • After compression 55.0 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

-11%

Potential reduce by 6.6 kB

  • Original 63.3 kB
  • After minification 63.3 kB
  • After compression 56.6 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. Novel.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 6.6 kB or 11% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 22 (67%)

Requests Now

33

After Optimization

11

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 33 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Novel. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 14 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 10 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

novel.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

novel.co.za best practices score

75

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

SEO Factors

novel.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

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

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