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Report Summary

  • 90

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    91% of other websites

  • 76

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 42% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    74% of websites

platform.co.za

Platformity - Our Home Page. | South African based ISP, catering to the SME and Corporate clients.

Page Load Speed

3.1 sec in total

First Response

910 ms

Resources Loaded

2.1 sec

Page Rendered

81 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Platform.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 910 ms and then it took 2.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 45% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

platform.co.za performance score

90

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.3 s

75/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.2 s

73/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value2.9 s

95/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value3.2 s

95/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

platform.co.za

910 ms

style.css

301 ms

logo.png

595 ms

company-logo.png

600 ms

css

21 ms

Our browser made a total of 15 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 73% of them (11 requests) were addressed to the original Platform.co.za, 20% (3 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 7% (1 request) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (911 ms) belongs to the original domain Platform.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 17.6 kB (23%)

Content Size

77.1 kB

After Optimization

59.5 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Platform.co.za main page is 77.1 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. 20% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 71.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-72%

Potential reduce by 2.8 kB

  • Original 3.9 kB
  • After minification 3.0 kB
  • After compression 1.1 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 891 B, which is 23% of the original size. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 2.8 kB or 72% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-20%

Potential reduce by 14.6 kB

  • Original 71.7 kB
  • After minification 57.1 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. Obviously, Platform needs image optimization as it can save up to 14.6 kB or 20% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

CSS Optimization

-14%

Potential reduce by 200 B

  • Original 1.4 kB
  • After minification 1.4 kB
  • After compression 1.2 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. Platform.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 200 B or 14% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

11

After Optimization

11

  • Images
  • CSS

The browser has sent 11 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Platform. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

platform.co.za accessibility score

76

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

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.

Best Practices

platform.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

SEO Factors

platform.co.za SEO score

92

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 Platform.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 Platform.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 Platform. 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: