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Report Summary

  • 8

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    22% of other websites

  • 76

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 42% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 88

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    65% of websites

waterplant.co.za

Water Plant cc | Irrigation | Pool | Garden Decor Shop

Page Load Speed

11.9 sec in total

First Response

721 ms

Resources Loaded

10.7 sec

Page Rendered

566 ms

About Website

Welcome to waterplant.co.za homepage info - get ready to check Water Plant best content right away, or after learning these important things about waterplant.co.za

at Water Plant we stock a wide range of Water features, Garden furniture and Durable boma pitfires, Koi pond and Pool accessories.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Waterplant.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 721 ms and then it took 11.2 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

waterplant.co.za performance score

8

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value8.7 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value31.9 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value38.3 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,150 ms

2/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.261

47/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value25.6 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

waterplant.co.za

721 ms

www.waterplant.co.za

3838 ms

js

98 ms

wp_head.css

459 ms

woocommerce-layout.css

698 ms

Our browser made a total of 127 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 37% of them (47 requests) were addressed to the original Waterplant.co.za, 46% (58 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 6% (8 requests) were made to Youtube.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (3.8 sec) belongs to the original domain Waterplant.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 260.2 kB (6%)

Content Size

4.3 MB

After Optimization

4.0 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Waterplant.co.za main page is 4.3 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. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Images take 3.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 250.3 kB

  • Original 294.6 kB
  • After minification 290.1 kB
  • After compression 44.3 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 250.3 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 4.2 kB

  • Original 3.4 MB
  • After minification 3.4 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. Water Plant images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 4.7 kB

  • Original 462.7 kB
  • After minification 462.7 kB
  • After compression 458.0 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

-1%

Potential reduce by 1.1 kB

  • Original 96.6 kB
  • After minification 96.6 kB
  • After compression 95.5 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. Waterplant.co.za has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 31 (53%)

Requests Now

59

After Optimization

28

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 59 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Water Plant. 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 10 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

waterplant.co.za accessibility score

76

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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.

Best Practices

waterplant.co.za best practices score

83

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

waterplant.co.za SEO score

88

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

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 Waterplant.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 Waterplant.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 Water Plant. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: