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Report Summary

  • 10

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    23% of other websites

  • 85

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 58% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 99

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    93% of websites

sigma-epd.com

Leading distributor and service provider | Sigma Enterprises | UAE

Page Load Speed

11.9 sec in total

First Response

43 ms

Resources Loaded

11.3 sec

Page Rendered

555 ms

About Website

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Sigma Enterprises is the leading distributor and service provider for a wide range of scientific and engineering technologies in the UAE and the GCC countries.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Sigma-epd.com page load time and found that the first response time was 43 ms and then it took 11.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 90% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

sigma-epd.com performance score

10

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.7 s

5/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value15.4 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value15.3 s

1/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,690 ms

11/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.323

36/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value19.3 s

2/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

sigma-epd.com

43 ms

sigma-epd.com

609 ms

www.sep.ae

1048 ms

slick.css

10 ms

line-awesome.min.css

28 ms

Our browser made a total of 126 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (2 requests) were addressed to the original Sigma-epd.com, 96% (121 requests) were made to Sep.ae and 1% (1 request) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (4.1 sec) relates to the external source Sep.ae.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 493.2 kB (10%)

Content Size

4.8 MB

After Optimization

4.3 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Sigma-epd.com main page is 4.8 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. Images take 4.5 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-90%

Potential reduce by 130.9 kB

  • Original 145.0 kB
  • After minification 107.5 kB
  • After compression 14.1 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 37.5 kB, which is 26% 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 130.9 kB or 90% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 346.2 kB

  • Original 4.5 MB
  • After minification 4.1 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. Sigma Epd images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 4.2 kB

  • Original 122.7 kB
  • After minification 122.7 kB
  • After compression 118.5 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

-21%

Potential reduce by 12.0 kB

  • Original 56.1 kB
  • After minification 44.4 kB
  • After compression 44.1 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. Sigma-epd.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 12.0 kB or 21% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 16 (14%)

Requests Now

114

After Optimization

98

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 114 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Sigma Epd. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 11 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

sigma-epd.com accessibility score

85

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

[aria-hidden="true"] elements contain focusable descendents

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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

Best Practices

sigma-epd.com best practices score

75

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

High

Includes front-end JavaScript libraries with known security vulnerabilities

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

sigma-epd.com SEO score

99

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

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 Sigma-epd.com 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 Sigma-epd.com 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 Sigma Epd. 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: