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Report Summary

  • 49

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    67% of other websites

  • 96

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 88% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    94% of websites

pens.co.za

Pens Home - Pens South Africa

Page Load Speed

7 sec in total

First Response

2.1 sec

Resources Loaded

4.7 sec

Page Rendered

269 ms

About Website

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

Pens are a leading promotional product within companies. At Pens South Africa we offer a diverse range with different branding options.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Pens.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 2.1 sec and then it took 4.9 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

pens.co.za performance score

49

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.8 s

1/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.7 s

3/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value12.8 s

3/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value20 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.115

86/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value7.0 s

53/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.pens.co.za

2055 ms

Our browser made a total of 1 request to load all elements on the main page. We found that all of those requests were addressed to Pens.co.za and no external sources were called. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.1 sec) belongs to the original domain Pens.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 921.0 kB (71%)

Content Size

1.3 MB

After Optimization

381.5 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Pens.co.za main page is 1.3 MB. This result falls within a vast category (top 1 000 000) of heavyweight, probably not optimized, and thus slow loading web pages. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. CSS take 459.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 224.0 kB

  • Original 275.5 kB
  • After minification 275.4 kB
  • After compression 51.5 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 224.0 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 7.3 kB

  • Original 112.5 kB
  • After minification 105.2 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. Pens images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-65%

Potential reduce by 294.1 kB

  • Original 454.6 kB
  • After minification 452.5 kB
  • After compression 160.6 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 294.1 kB or 65% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 395.6 kB

  • Original 459.8 kB
  • After minification 388.8 kB
  • After compression 64.2 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. Pens.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 395.6 kB or 86% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

0

After Optimization

0

Besides the initial HTML request, no CSS, Javascripts, AJAX or image files were requested in the course of web page rendering.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

pens.co.za accessibility score

96

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

Best Practices

pens.co.za best practices score

92

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

pens.co.za SEO score

100

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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