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Report Summary

  • 62

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    76% of other websites

  • 59

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 26% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 50

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    18% of websites

virtualshowrooms.co.za

WEBSITE DESIGN & NEW MEDIA - VIRTUAL SHOWROOMS - Durban South Africa

Page Load Speed

23.1 sec in total

First Response

1.1 sec

Resources Loaded

21.9 sec

Page Rendered

126 ms

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Virtualshowrooms.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 1.1 sec and then it took 22 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 95% of websites can load faster. Unfortunately, there was 1 request timeout, which can generally increase the web page load time, as the browser stays idle while waiting for website response.

Performance Metrics

virtualshowrooms.co.za performance score

62

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.0 s

49/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.3 s

10/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.5 s

26/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value10 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.12

84/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value3.0 s

95/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

virtualshowrooms.co.za

1144 ms

layout.css

377 ms

stylesheet.css

747 ms

functions_common.js

748 ms

functions_frontend.js

754 ms

Our browser made a total of 45 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 91% of them (41 requests) were addressed to the original Virtualshowrooms.co.za, 4% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 2% (1 request) were made to S7.addthis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (19.9 sec) relates to the external source Adobe.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 51.8 kB (18%)

Content Size

283.8 kB

After Optimization

232.0 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Virtualshowrooms.co.za main page is 283.8 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. 30% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 224.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 25.7 kB

  • Original 31.2 kB
  • After minification 27.9 kB
  • After compression 5.5 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 3.3 kB, which is 11% of the original size. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 25.7 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-10%

Potential reduce by 22.9 kB

  • Original 224.5 kB
  • After minification 201.6 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. VIRTUAL SHOWROOMS images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-10%

Potential reduce by 2.4 kB

  • Original 24.2 kB
  • After minification 24.2 kB
  • After compression 21.8 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-21%

Potential reduce by 813 B

  • Original 3.9 kB
  • After minification 3.9 kB
  • After compression 3.1 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. Virtualshowrooms.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 813 B or 21% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 3 (8%)

Requests Now

40

After Optimization

37

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 40 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of VIRTUAL SHOWROOMS. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 4 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

virtualshowrooms.co.za accessibility score

59

Accessibility Issues

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

High

<object> elements do not have alternate text

Best Practices

virtualshowrooms.co.za best practices score

67

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

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

virtualshowrooms.co.za SEO score

50

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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

High

Document uses plugins

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Virtualshowrooms.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 Virtualshowrooms.co.za main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of VIRTUAL SHOWROOMS. 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: