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Report Summary

  • 63

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    77% of other websites

  • 61

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 27% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 77

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    36% of websites

specials4you.co.za

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Page Load Speed

10.3 sec in total

First Response

2.6 sec

Resources Loaded

7.5 sec

Page Rendered

114 ms

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Specials4you.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 2.6 sec and then it took 7.7 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

specials4you.co.za performance score

63

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.5 s

33/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.5 s

63/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value13.2 s

2/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value330 ms

75/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.057

98/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value5.5 s

70/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.specials4you.co.za

2647 ms

bootstrap.css

325 ms

font-awesome.min.css

647 ms

jquery.vegas.css

923 ms

custom.css

922 ms

Our browser made a total of 18 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that all of those requests were addressed to Specials4you.co.za and no external sources were called. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.6 sec) belongs to the original domain Specials4you.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 6.5 kB (3%)

Content Size

208.2 kB

After Optimization

201.7 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Specials4you.co.za main page is 208.2 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. 20% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 91.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 4.8 kB

  • Original 6.2 kB
  • After minification 5.5 kB
  • After compression 1.4 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 696 B, which is 11% 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 4.8 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 265 B

  • Original 91.4 kB
  • After minification 91.1 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. Specials4you images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 170 B

  • Original 91.8 kB
  • After minification 91.8 kB
  • After compression 91.6 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

-7%

Potential reduce by 1.2 kB

  • Original 18.8 kB
  • After minification 18.8 kB
  • After compression 17.6 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. Specials4you.co.za has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 12 (75%)

Requests Now

16

After Optimization

4

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 16 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Specials4you. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 6 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 8 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

specials4you.co.za accessibility score

61

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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

specials4you.co.za best practices score

75

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

SEO Factors

specials4you.co.za SEO score

77

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

robots.txt is not valid

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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 Specials4you.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 Specials4you.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 description is not detected on the main page of Specials4you. 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: