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Report Summary

  • 16

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    30% of other websites

  • 88

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 68% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    94% of websites

vikingweb.co.za

Viking Design & Development | a creative agency with a passion for design.

Page Load Speed

15.3 sec in total

First Response

5.8 sec

Resources Loaded

9 sec

Page Rendered

470 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Vikingweb.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 5.8 sec and then it took 9.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 90% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

vikingweb.co.za performance score

16

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.6 s

2/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.0 s

6/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value22.1 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value14,400 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.09

92/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value26.4 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

vikingweb.co.za

5787 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

294 ms

icons.css

520 ms

wp_head.css

528 ms

style.css

1060 ms

Our browser made a total of 83 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 49% of them (41 requests) were addressed to the original Vikingweb.co.za, 14% (12 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 7% (6 requests) were made to Google.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (5.8 sec) belongs to the original domain Vikingweb.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 71.6 kB (7%)

Content Size

1.1 MB

After Optimization

1.0 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Vikingweb.co.za main page is 1.1 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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 818.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 45.2 kB

  • Original 56.2 kB
  • After minification 50.7 kB
  • After compression 10.9 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 45.2 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 23.2 kB

  • Original 818.7 kB
  • After minification 795.6 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. Viking Web images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 617 B

  • Original 76.3 kB
  • After minification 76.3 kB
  • After compression 75.7 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

-2%

Potential reduce by 2.6 kB

  • Original 131.4 kB
  • After minification 131.4 kB
  • After compression 128.8 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. Vikingweb.co.za has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 32 (52%)

Requests Now

62

After Optimization

30

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 62 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Viking Web. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 23 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 11 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

vikingweb.co.za accessibility score

88

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

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Some elements have a [tabindex] value greater than 0

Best Practices

vikingweb.co.za best practices score

75

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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

vikingweb.co.za SEO score

100

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Vikingweb.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 Vikingweb.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 Viking Web. 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: