Report Summary

  • 22

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    40% of other websites

  • 71

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 36% of websites

  • 0

    Best Practices

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    94% of websites

pifactory.co.za

Pi Factory | Buy Raspberry PI kits online in South Africa

Page Load Speed

8 sec in total

First Response

1.2 sec

Resources Loaded

6.5 sec

Page Rendered

257 ms

About Website

Click here to check amazing Pi Factory content for South Africa. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about pifactory.co.za

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Key Findings

We analyzed Pifactory.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 1.2 sec and then it took 6.7 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

pifactory.co.za performance score

22

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value7.7 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value11.7 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value14.7 s

1/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value530 ms

55/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.374

28/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value13.4 s

11/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

pifactory.dedicated.co.za

1215 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

271 ms

admin-outofstock.css

521 ms

outofstock.css

520 ms

css

24 ms

Our browser made a total of 93 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Pifactory.co.za, 2% (2 requests) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com and 2% (2 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.1 sec) relates to the external source Pifactory.dedicated.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 821.5 kB (70%)

Content Size

1.2 MB

After Optimization

350.6 kB

In fact, the total size of Pifactory.co.za main page is 1.2 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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 676.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 49.9 kB

  • Original 63.3 kB
  • After minification 60.4 kB
  • After compression 13.5 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 49.9 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 2.8 kB

  • Original 72.6 kB
  • After minification 69.8 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. Pi Factory images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-70%

Potential reduce by 474.5 kB

  • Original 676.5 kB
  • After minification 640.0 kB
  • After compression 202.0 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 474.5 kB or 70% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 294.4 kB

  • Original 359.7 kB
  • After minification 342.9 kB
  • After compression 65.3 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. Pifactory.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 294.4 kB or 82% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 75 (84%)

Requests Now

89

After Optimization

14

The browser has sent 89 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Pi Factory. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 50 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 27 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

pifactory.co.za accessibility score

71

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Elements with an ARIA [role] that require children to contain a specific [role] are missing some or all of those required children.

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

[id] attributes on active, focusable elements are not unique

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

List items (<li>) are not contained within <ul> or <ol> parent elements.

Best practices

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

SEO Factors

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