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Report Summary

  • 15

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    27% 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

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

badgermeter.co.za

Badger Meter | Water Metering Technology & Flow Solutions

Page Load Speed

2.5 sec in total

First Response

322 ms

Resources Loaded

1.5 sec

Page Rendered

679 ms

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About Website

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Badger Meter is a leading manufacturer of metering products using flow measurement and control technologies. Learn more about our products and our commitment here.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Badgermeter.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 322 ms and then it took 2.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 45% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

badgermeter.co.za performance score

15

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.3 s

3/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value10.1 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.5 s

12/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,640 ms

1/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.114

86/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value18.8 s

3/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

badgermeter.co.za

322 ms

www.badgermeter.com

719 ms

gtm.js

177 ms

main.css

32 ms

main.bundle.js

83 ms

Our browser made a total of 33 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 3% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Badgermeter.co.za, 61% (20 requests) were made to Badgermeter.com and 27% (9 requests) were made to Badgermeter.widen.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (719 ms) relates to the external source Badgermeter.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 676.5 kB (51%)

Content Size

1.3 MB

After Optimization

644.7 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Badgermeter.co.za main page is 1.3 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. CSS take 428.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-90%

Potential reduce by 143.7 kB

  • Original 159.4 kB
  • After minification 89.7 kB
  • After compression 15.7 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 69.6 kB, which is 44% 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 143.7 kB or 90% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 360.1 kB
  • After minification 360.1 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. Badger Meter images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-28%

Potential reduce by 104.3 kB

  • Original 373.1 kB
  • After minification 373.1 kB
  • After compression 268.8 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 104.3 kB or 28% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-100%

Potential reduce by 428.5 kB

  • Original 428.6 kB
  • After minification 144 B
  • After compression 123 B

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. Badgermeter.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 428.5 kB or 100% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

27

After Optimization

27

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 27 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Badger Meter. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Network Requests Diagram

badgermeter.co.za

badgermeter.co.za

322 ms

www.badgermeter.com

www.badgermeter.com

719 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

177 ms

main.css

main.css

32 ms

main.bundle.js

main.bundle.js

83 ms

Background%20Options-07.jpeg

Background%20Options-07.jpeg

173 ms

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BlueEdge%20Press%20Release%20Image%20%281200X800%29.jpeg

170 ms

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2024%20Smart%2020%20Award%20Galveston%20Website%20Image%20%28low%20res%29.jpeg

173 ms

2023-Sustainability-Cover-image-%281200x800%29-low-res.jpeg

2023-Sustainability-Cover-image-%281200x800%29-low-res.jpeg

170 ms

IMG_2414.jpeg

IMG_2414.jpeg

167 ms

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shutterstock_2475382567.jpeg

169 ms

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ISO-27001-Certified-Logo-%28low-res%29-1200x800.png

215 ms

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Man%20Viewing%20SoloCUE%20on%20Android%20Tablet.jpeg

221 ms

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Telog_Product_Family_1200x800_%28low-res%29.jpeg

210 ms

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en.svg

66 ms

ca.svg

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52 ms

en-gb.svg

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73 ms

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de.svg

68 ms

es-us.svg

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64 ms

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es-es.svg

161 ms

fr-ca.svg

fr-ca.svg

70 ms

fr.svg

fr.svg

157 ms

product-documentation-icon.svg

product-documentation-icon.svg

159 ms

meter-selector-icon.svg

meter-selector-icon.svg

169 ms

software-icon.svg

software-icon.svg

169 ms

saved-items-icon.svg

saved-items-icon.svg

168 ms

badger-meter-logo-horizontal-informal-white.svg

badger-meter-logo-horizontal-informal-white.svg

166 ms

ai.0.js

ai.0.js

51 ms

Roboto-Regular.woff

Roboto-Regular.woff

169 ms

Roboto-Medium.ttf

Roboto-Medium.ttf

171 ms

Roboto-Light.ttf

Roboto-Light.ttf

300 ms

Roboto-Bold.woff

Roboto-Bold.woff

227 ms

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103 ms

Accessibility Review

badgermeter.co.za accessibility score

88

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

Best Practices

badgermeter.co.za best practices score

75

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

badgermeter.co.za SEO score

86

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

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Badgermeter.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 Badgermeter.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

badgermeter.co.za

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Badger Meter. 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: