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Report Summary

  • 33

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    53% of other websites

  • 89

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 71% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 90

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    68% of websites

valostarconstruction.co.za

Valostar Steel Construction - Steel Construction in Gauteng

Page Load Speed

8.6 sec in total

First Response

705 ms

Resources Loaded

6.6 sec

Page Rendered

1.2 sec

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Key Findings

We analyzed Valostarconstruction.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 705 ms and then it took 7.9 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

valostarconstruction.co.za performance score

33

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.2 s

8/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value14.1 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value13.0 s

2/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value540 ms

54/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.004

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value14.0 s

10/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

valostarconstruction.co.za

705 ms

valostarconstruction.co.za

1346 ms

script.js

134 ms

log

395 ms

wpo-minify-header-contact-form-75.9.min.css

244 ms

Our browser made a total of 66 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 95% of them (63 requests) were addressed to the original Valostarconstruction.co.za, 2% (1 request) were made to Cdn-cookieyes.com and 2% (1 request) were made to Log.cookieyes.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.6 sec) belongs to the original domain Valostarconstruction.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 242.4 kB (5%)

Content Size

5.3 MB

After Optimization

5.1 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Valostarconstruction.co.za main page is 5.3 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. 50% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 4.8 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 102.3 kB

  • Original 122.7 kB
  • After minification 117.7 kB
  • After compression 20.4 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. 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 102.3 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 137.6 kB

  • Original 4.8 MB
  • After minification 4.7 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. Valostar Construction images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 2.2 kB

  • Original 264.3 kB
  • After minification 264.3 kB
  • After compression 262.1 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

-0%

Potential reduce by 326 B

  • Original 125.0 kB
  • After minification 125.0 kB
  • After compression 124.7 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. Valostarconstruction.co.za has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 49 (78%)

Requests Now

63

After Optimization

14

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 63 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Valostar Construction. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 31 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 20 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

valostarconstruction.co.za accessibility score

89

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

valostarconstruction.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

valostarconstruction.co.za SEO score

90

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

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

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 Valostarconstruction.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 Valostarconstruction.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 Valostar Construction. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: