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Report Summary

  • 38

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    57% of other websites

  • 93

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 80% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 91

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    70% of websites

rentokil.co.za

Your Local Pest Control Experts | Rentokil South Africa

Page Load Speed

2.2 sec in total

First Response

117 ms

Resources Loaded

1.7 sec

Page Rendered

387 ms

About Website

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Pest Control services from the experts at Rentokil; providing professional pest control solutions and disinfection services to local homes and businesses throughout South Africa. We have over 50 years...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Rentokil.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 117 ms and then it took 2.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 40% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

rentokil.co.za performance score

38

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.3 s

39/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.2 s

12/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.0 s

46/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value990 ms

27/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.003

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value9.6 s

29/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

rentokil.co.za

117 ms

www.rentokil.co.za

418 ms

requirejs.js

40 ms

OtAutoBlock.js

46 ms

otSDKStub.js

62 ms

Our browser made a total of 15 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 13% of them (2 requests) were addressed to the original Rentokil.co.za, 47% (7 requests) were made to Cdn.rentokil.com and 20% (3 requests) were made to Cdn.cookielaw.org. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (733 ms) relates to the external source Cdn.rentokil.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 182.2 kB (66%)

Content Size

275.2 kB

After Optimization

93.0 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Rentokil.co.za main page is 275.2 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. Only 10% of websites need less resources to load. HTML takes 230.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 182.1 kB

  • Original 230.4 kB
  • After minification 212.1 kB
  • After compression 48.3 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 182.1 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 23.4 kB
  • After minification 23.4 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. Rentokil images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 58 B

  • Original 13.7 kB
  • After minification 13.7 kB
  • After compression 13.6 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

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 7.7 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.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 4 (44%)

Requests Now

9

After Optimization

5

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 9 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Rentokil. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 5 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

rentokil.co.za accessibility score

93

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.

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

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

rentokil.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

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

rentokil.co.za SEO score

91

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

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