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Report Summary

  • 47

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    65% of other websites

  • 96

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 88% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    94% of websites

websiteengineer.co.za

The Website Engineer: Expert Web Development Solutions

Page Load Speed

3.8 sec in total

First Response

835 ms

Resources Loaded

1.9 sec

Page Rendered

1.1 sec

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Key Findings

We analyzed Websiteengineer.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 835 ms and then it took 3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 55% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

websiteengineer.co.za performance score

47

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.0 s

51/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.0 s

49/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.8 s

66/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value630 ms

47/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.334

34/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value8.5 s

37/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

websiteengineer.co.za

835 ms

thewebsiteengineer.com

182 ms

style.css

13 ms

style.min.css

19 ms

styles.css

28 ms

Our browser made a total of 72 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Websiteengineer.co.za, 94% (68 requests) were made to Thewebsiteengineer.com and 3% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (835 ms) belongs to the original domain Websiteengineer.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 183.2 kB (39%)

Content Size

464.4 kB

After Optimization

281.2 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Websiteengineer.co.za main page is 464.4 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 a small number of websites need less resources to load. Images take 254.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 114.2 kB

  • Original 148.2 kB
  • After minification 148.0 kB
  • After compression 33.9 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 114.2 kB or 77% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-26%

Potential reduce by 67.5 kB

  • Original 254.9 kB
  • After minification 187.4 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. Obviously, Website Engineer needs image optimization as it can save up to 67.5 kB or 26% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 50 B

  • Original 21.0 kB
  • After minification 21.0 kB
  • After compression 20.9 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

-4%

Potential reduce by 1.4 kB

  • Original 40.3 kB
  • After minification 40.3 kB
  • After compression 38.9 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. Websiteengineer.co.za has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 37 (53%)

Requests Now

70

After Optimization

33

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 70 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Website Engineer. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 22 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 9 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

websiteengineer.co.za accessibility score

96

Accessibility Issues

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

websiteengineer.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

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

websiteengineer.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 Websiteengineer.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 Websiteengineer.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 Website Engineer. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: