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Report Summary

  • 54

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    71% of other websites

  • 81

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 51% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 91

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    70% of websites

roomtogrow.co.za

Landscape Design, Construction and Exterior Design | Room To Grow

Page Load Speed

9.7 sec in total

First Response

2.2 sec

Resources Loaded

7.4 sec

Page Rendered

89 ms

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Roomtogrow.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 2.2 sec and then it took 7.5 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

roomtogrow.co.za performance score

54

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.6 s

31/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.7 s

58/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value10.2 s

8/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.489

17/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value9.6 s

29/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.roomtogrow.co.za

2198 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

304 ms

otw_sbm.css

606 ms

style.min.css

912 ms

settings.css

611 ms

Our browser made a total of 34 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that all of those requests were addressed to Roomtogrow.co.za and no external sources were called. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.2 sec) belongs to the original domain Roomtogrow.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 59.0 kB (3%)

Content Size

2.2 MB

After Optimization

2.2 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Roomtogrow.co.za main page is 2.2 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. 40% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 2.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 33.7 kB

  • Original 41.9 kB
  • After minification 40.6 kB
  • After compression 8.2 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 33.7 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 140 B

  • Original 2.0 MB
  • After minification 2.0 MB

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. Room To Grow images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-14%

Potential reduce by 21.2 kB

  • Original 151.5 kB
  • After minification 151.5 kB
  • After compression 130.3 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 21.2 kB or 14% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 3.9 kB

  • Original 66.3 kB
  • After minification 66.3 kB
  • After compression 62.4 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. Roomtogrow.co.za has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 21 (66%)

Requests Now

32

After Optimization

11

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 32 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Room To Grow. 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 9 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

roomtogrow.co.za accessibility score

81

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

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

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

roomtogrow.co.za best practices score

67

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

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

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

roomtogrow.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 Roomtogrow.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 Roomtogrow.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 Room To Grow. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: