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Report Summary

  • 50

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    68% of other websites

  • 87

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 66% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    83% of websites

stockshop.co.za

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Page Load Speed

10.2 sec in total

First Response

1 sec

Resources Loaded

8.4 sec

Page Rendered

746 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Stockshop.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 1 sec and then it took 9.2 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

stockshop.co.za performance score

50

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.8 s

4/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.4 s

10/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.7 s

11/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value230 ms

87/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value7.6 s

46/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.stockshop.co.za

1034 ms

bootstrap.min.css

544 ms

font-awesome.min.css

550 ms

animate.css

540 ms

style.css

3494 ms

Our browser made a total of 85 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 64% of them (54 requests) were addressed to the original Stockshop.co.za, 22% (19 requests) were made to Maps.googleapis.com and 12% (10 requests) were made to Maps.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (4.7 sec) belongs to the original domain Stockshop.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.9 MB (37%)

Content Size

5.1 MB

After Optimization

3.3 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Stockshop.co.za main page is 5.1 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. 55% of websites need less resources to load. CSS take 2.5 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 62.0 kB

  • Original 71.6 kB
  • After minification 64.2 kB
  • After compression 9.7 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 62.0 kB or 86% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-30%

Potential reduce by 598.6 kB

  • Original 2.0 MB
  • After minification 1.4 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. Obviously, Stockshop needs image optimization as it can save up to 598.6 kB or 30% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-67%

Potential reduce by 403.5 kB

  • Original 603.8 kB
  • After minification 601.2 kB
  • After compression 200.3 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 403.5 kB or 67% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-33%

Potential reduce by 817.5 kB

  • Original 2.5 MB
  • After minification 2.5 MB
  • After compression 1.7 MB

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. Stockshop.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 817.5 kB or 33% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 42 (51%)

Requests Now

82

After Optimization

40

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 82 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Stockshop. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 19 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

stockshop.co.za accessibility score

87

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.

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

stockshop.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

SEO Factors

stockshop.co.za SEO score

93

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Content Best Practices

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

Impact

Issue

High

Links do not have descriptive text

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 Stockshop.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 Stockshop.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 Stockshop. 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: