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Report Summary

  • 58

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    74% of other websites

  • 86

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 61% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    20% of websites

  • 89

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    66% of websites

southafricanartists.com

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Page Load Speed

5.9 sec in total

First Response

866 ms

Resources Loaded

4.9 sec

Page Rendered

79 ms

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Southafricanartists.com page load time and found that the first response time was 866 ms and then it took 5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 75% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

southafricanartists.com performance score

58

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.8 s

55/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.4 s

67/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.5 s

39/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value350 ms

73/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.408

24/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value6.1 s

64/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

southafricanartists.com

866 ms

zZG1TWFt6VpzjoDuuypAzMsFwvE.js

20 ms

saalib.js

281 ms

jquery-2.1.4.min.js

11 ms

jquery-migrate-1.2.1.js

21 ms

Our browser made a total of 53 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 68% of them (36 requests) were addressed to the original Southafricanartists.com, 8% (4 requests) were made to Code.jquery.com and 8% (4 requests) were made to Platform.twitter.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.3 sec) belongs to the original domain Southafricanartists.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 32.2 kB (32%)

Content Size

101.9 kB

After Optimization

69.7 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Southafricanartists.com main page is 101.9 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. 45% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 40.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 20.4 kB

  • Original 26.6 kB
  • After minification 26.5 kB
  • After compression 6.3 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 20.4 kB or 76% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-17%

Potential reduce by 4.0 kB

  • Original 23.3 kB
  • After minification 19.3 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, Southafricanartists needs image optimization as it can save up to 4.0 kB or 17% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-17%

Potential reduce by 7.0 kB

  • Original 40.2 kB
  • After minification 40.2 kB
  • After compression 33.2 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 7.0 kB or 17% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 815 B

  • Original 11.8 kB
  • After minification 11.8 kB
  • After compression 10.9 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. Southafricanartists.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 23 (46%)

Requests Now

50

After Optimization

27

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 50 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Southafricanartists. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 15 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

southafricanartists.com accessibility score

86

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

Best Practices

southafricanartists.com best practices score

58

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

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

SEO Factors

southafricanartists.com SEO score

89

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 doesn't use legible font sizes

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Southafricanartists.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Southafricanartists.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 Southafricanartists. 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: