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Report Summary

  • 18

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    34% of other websites

  • 89

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 71% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

badgermeter.co.za

Badger Meter | Water Metering Technology & Flow Solutions

Page Load Speed

2 sec in total

First Response

300 ms

Resources Loaded

1.3 sec

Page Rendered

487 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 300 ms and then it took 1.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 35% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

badgermeter.co.za performance score

18

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.1 s

3/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value10.5 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.5 s

18/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,950 ms

8/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.103

89/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value16.6 s

5/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

badgermeter.co.za

300 ms

www.badgermeter.com

444 ms

gtm.js

197 ms

main.css

50 ms

main.bundle.js

35 ms

Our browser made a total of 34 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, 59% (20 requests) were made to Badgermeter.com and 18% (6 requests) were made to Badgermeter.widen.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (444 ms) relates to the external source Badgermeter.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 680.2 kB (54%)

Content Size

1.2 MB

After Optimization

569.0 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Badgermeter.co.za main page is 1.2 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. 55% of websites need less resources to load. CSS take 424.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-90%

Potential reduce by 152.5 kB

  • Original 169.0 kB
  • After minification 95.1 kB
  • After compression 16.5 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 73.8 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 152.5 kB or 90% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 275.6 kB
  • After minification 275.6 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. Badger Meter images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-27%

Potential reduce by 103.5 kB

  • Original 380.3 kB
  • After minification 380.3 kB
  • After compression 276.8 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 103.5 kB or 27% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-100%

Potential reduce by 424.3 kB

  • Original 424.4 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 424.3 kB or 100% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 5 (18%)

Requests Now

28

After Optimization

23

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 28 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Badger Meter. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 6 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

badgermeter.co.za

badgermeter.co.za

300 ms

www.badgermeter.com

www.badgermeter.com

444 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

197 ms

main.css

main.css

50 ms

main.bundle.js

main.bundle.js

35 ms

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Hand-and-Connectivity-Lines-%28low-res%29-1200x800.jpeg

198 ms

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323 ms

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167 ms

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Deltek_specpoint_callout_web_software_img.jpg

228 ms

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2022-Sustainability-Cover-image-%281200x800%29-low-res.jpeg

157 ms

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162 ms

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130 ms

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127 ms

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130 ms

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149 ms

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152 ms

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153 ms

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193 ms

fr.svg

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155 ms

product-documentation-icon.svg

product-documentation-icon.svg

147 ms

technical-support-icon.svg

technical-support-icon.svg

178 ms

software-icon.svg

software-icon.svg

174 ms

saved-items-icon.svg

saved-items-icon.svg

171 ms

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

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

165 ms

ai.0.js

ai.0.js

134 ms

Roboto-Regular.woff

Roboto-Regular.woff

211 ms

Roboto-Medium.ttf

Roboto-Medium.ttf

184 ms

Roboto-Light.ttf

Roboto-Light.ttf

230 ms

Roboto-Bold.woff

Roboto-Bold.woff

201 ms

otSDKStub.js

otSDKStub.js

102 ms

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36 ms

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33 ms

location

location

55 ms

otBannerSdk.js

otBannerSdk.js

23 ms

Accessibility Review

badgermeter.co.za accessibility score

89

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

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

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: