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Report Summary

  • 52

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    69% of other websites

  • 45

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 19% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 62

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    23% of websites

viadata.co.za

South Africa Software Development / ViaData / Database Development South Africa

Page Load Speed

9.4 sec in total

First Response

2.2 sec

Resources Loaded

7.1 sec

Page Rendered

185 ms

About Website

Click here to check amazing Via Data content for South Africa. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about viadata.co.za

South Africa Software Development firm, ViaData, has a passion for software excellence, and has been developing business systems both nationally, and internationally, for the last 17 years.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Viadata.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 2.2 sec and then it took 7.2 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

viadata.co.za performance score

52

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.3 s

18/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.1 s

6/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.9 s

15/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value210 ms

88/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value6.9 s

54/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

viadata.co.za

2183 ms

style-positions.css

320 ms

styles.css

639 ms

jquery.fader.css

645 ms

formvalidator.js

643 ms

Our browser made a total of 76 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 92% of them (70 requests) were addressed to the original Viadata.co.za, 5% (4 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 1% (1 request) were made to Stats.g.doubleclick.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.7 sec) belongs to the original domain Viadata.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 74.0 kB (9%)

Content Size

840.7 kB

After Optimization

766.6 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Viadata.co.za main page is 840.7 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. 40% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 713.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 25.4 kB

  • Original 31.6 kB
  • After minification 29.1 kB
  • After compression 6.2 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 25.4 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 16.7 kB

  • Original 713.9 kB
  • After minification 697.2 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. Via Data images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-34%

Potential reduce by 31.3 kB

  • Original 92.0 kB
  • After minification 92.0 kB
  • After compression 60.8 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 31.3 kB or 34% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-22%

Potential reduce by 693 B

  • Original 3.1 kB
  • After minification 3.1 kB
  • After compression 2.4 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. Viadata.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 693 B or 22% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 7 (9%)

Requests Now

75

After Optimization

68

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 75 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Via Data. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 8 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

viadata.co.za accessibility score

45

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

<input type="image"> elements do not have [alt] text

High

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Lists do not contain only <li> elements and script supporting elements (<script> and <template>).

High

List items (<li>) are not contained within <ul> or <ol> parent elements.

Best Practices

viadata.co.za best practices score

67

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

SEO Factors

viadata.co.za SEO score

62

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

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 Viadata.co.za 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 Viadata.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 Via Data. 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: