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Report Summary

  • 46

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    65% of other websites

  • 91

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 76% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 77

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    36% of websites

web-design-directory.co.za

Web Design Directory of South Africa | Web Design South Africa

Page Load Speed

1.5 sec in total

First Response

198 ms

Resources Loaded

1.2 sec

Page Rendered

101 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Web-design-directory.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 198 ms and then it took 1.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 25% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

web-design-directory.co.za performance score

46

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.9 s

86/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.7 s

86/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.3 s

75/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,910 ms

8/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.415

23/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value9.4 s

30/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

web-design-directory.co.za

198 ms

www.web-design-directory.co.za

29 ms

www.web-design-directory.co.za

311 ms

stylesheet.css

199 ms

site.js

221 ms

Our browser made a total of 21 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 48% of them (10 requests) were addressed to the original Web-design-directory.co.za, 14% (3 requests) were made to Static.addtoany.com and 10% (2 requests) were made to Pagead2.googlesyndication.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (369 ms) relates to the external source Pagead2.googlesyndication.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 15.7 kB (5%)

Content Size

331.8 kB

After Optimization

316.0 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Web-design-directory.co.za main page is 331.8 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. Only 10% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 260.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 15.1 kB

  • Original 20.0 kB
  • After minification 18.8 kB
  • After compression 4.9 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 15.1 kB or 75% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 72 B

  • Original 49.0 kB
  • After minification 48.9 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. Web Design Directory images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 141 B

  • Original 260.8 kB
  • After minification 260.8 kB
  • After compression 260.7 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

-22%

Potential reduce by 442 B

  • Original 2.0 kB
  • After minification 2.0 kB
  • After compression 1.5 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. Web-design-directory.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 442 B or 22% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 4 (27%)

Requests Now

15

After Optimization

11

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 15 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Web Design Directory. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 5 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

web-design-directory.co.za accessibility score

91

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

Best Practices

web-design-directory.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

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

web-design-directory.co.za SEO score

77

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Web-design-directory.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 Web-design-directory.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 Web Design Directory. 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: