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Report Summary

  • 35

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    55% of other websites

  • 94

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 83% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    20% of websites

  • 75

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    32% of websites

switches.co.za

Switches and Sensors | Proximity Switches | Switches International

Page Load Speed

8.4 sec in total

First Response

243 ms

Resources Loaded

6.3 sec

Page Rendered

1.9 sec

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Key Findings

We analyzed Switches.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 243 ms and then it took 8.2 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

switches.co.za performance score

35

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.3 s

3/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value17.6 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value16.3 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value420 ms

66/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.002

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value24.8 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

switches.co.za

243 ms

www.switches.co.za

2139 ms

dashicons.min.css

156 ms

woocommerce-layout.css

236 ms

woocommerce.css

243 ms

Our browser made a total of 131 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 91% of them (119 requests) were addressed to the original Switches.co.za, 5% (6 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 2% (2 requests) were made to Ssl.google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.1 sec) belongs to the original domain Switches.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.3 MB (23%)

Content Size

5.4 MB

After Optimization

4.2 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Switches.co.za main page is 5.4 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 3.6 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-91%

Potential reduce by 376.9 kB

  • Original 415.6 kB
  • After minification 407.2 kB
  • After compression 38.8 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 376.9 kB or 91% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 2.5 kB

  • Original 3.6 MB
  • After minification 3.6 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. Switches images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-69%

Potential reduce by 552.6 kB

  • Original 806.0 kB
  • After minification 793.5 kB
  • After compression 253.4 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 552.6 kB or 69% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-58%

Potential reduce by 333.9 kB

  • Original 579.7 kB
  • After minification 579.0 kB
  • After compression 245.8 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. Switches.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 333.9 kB or 58% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 68 (57%)

Requests Now

119

After Optimization

51

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 119 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Switches. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 45 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 25 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

switches.co.za accessibility score

94

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

switches.co.za 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

High

Page has valid source maps

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

switches.co.za SEO score

75

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

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 doesn't use 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 Switches.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 Switches.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 Switches. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: