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Report Summary

  • 8

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    22% of other websites

  • 94

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 83% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    83% of websites

semantica.co.za

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Page Load Speed

26.6 sec in total

First Response

1.4 sec

Resources Loaded

23.5 sec

Page Rendered

1.7 sec

About Website

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

Semantica is a full-service digital agency offering design, web & software development. We use technologies like WordPress & PHP / JS for custom development.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Semantica.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 1.4 sec and then it took 25.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is an excellent result, as only a small number of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

semantica.co.za performance score

8

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.2 s

3/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value21.0 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value18.2 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,970 ms

3/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.272

45/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value22.9 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

semantica.co.za

1371 ms

www.semantica.co.za

393 ms

styles.css

976 ms

icon-style.css

88 ms

wp-glossary.css

73 ms

Our browser made a total of 244 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 81% of them (197 requests) were addressed to the original Semantica.co.za, 7% (18 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 3% (7 requests) were made to Apis.google.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (7.5 sec) belongs to the original domain Semantica.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 314.5 kB (17%)

Content Size

1.8 MB

After Optimization

1.5 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Semantica.co.za main page is 1.8 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. 75% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Javascripts take 1.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 146.7 kB

  • Original 173.9 kB
  • After minification 173.7 kB
  • After compression 27.1 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. 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 146.7 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 185.9 kB
  • After minification 185.9 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. Semantica images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-13%

Potential reduce by 164.9 kB

  • Original 1.3 MB
  • After minification 1.3 MB
  • After compression 1.1 MB

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 164.9 kB or 13% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 2.9 kB

  • Original 189.6 kB
  • After minification 189.1 kB
  • After compression 186.7 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. Semantica.co.za has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 118 (53%)

Requests Now

221

After Optimization

103

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 221 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Semantica. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 75 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 31 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

semantica.co.za accessibility score

94

Accessibility Issues

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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

semantica.co.za best practices score

83

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

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

semantica.co.za SEO score

93

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

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