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Report Summary

  • 52

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    69% of other websites

  • 58

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 25% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    20% of websites

  • 82

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    44% of websites

bar-codes.co.za

Barcodes - Buy Barcodes - Barcodes South Africa - Register Barcodes South Africa

Page Load Speed

4 sec in total

First Response

329 ms

Resources Loaded

3.5 sec

Page Rendered

155 ms

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About Website

Click here to check amazing Barcodes content for South Africa. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about bar-codes.co.za

Welcome to Barcodes South Africa. We are an official supplier of Barcodes in South Africa and global experts in EAN and UPC Barcodes. Register your barcode today.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Bar-codes.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 329 ms and then it took 3.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 65% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

bar-codes.co.za performance score

52

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.7 s

12/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.7 s

32/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.1 s

21/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value220 ms

88/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.206

60/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value7.0 s

52/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

bar-codes.co.za

329 ms

bar-codes.co.za

609 ms

bootstrap.min.css

434 ms

style.css

870 ms

1ab0ec8c37584483f2b0c6e376297b79.js

882 ms

Our browser made a total of 34 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 82% of them (28 requests) were addressed to the original Bar-codes.co.za, 6% (2 requests) were made to Maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com and 6% (2 requests) were made to Youtube.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.6 sec) belongs to the original domain Bar-codes.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 76.6 kB (12%)

Content Size

630.7 kB

After Optimization

554.2 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Bar-codes.co.za main page is 630.7 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. 40% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 482.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 17.8 kB

  • Original 22.4 kB
  • After minification 14.9 kB
  • After compression 4.6 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 7.5 kB, which is 33% 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 17.8 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 35.9 kB

  • Original 482.6 kB
  • After minification 446.7 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. Barcodes images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-14%

Potential reduce by 12.6 kB

  • Original 91.3 kB
  • After minification 91.3 kB
  • After compression 78.7 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 12.6 kB or 14% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-30%

Potential reduce by 10.3 kB

  • Original 34.4 kB
  • After minification 34.4 kB
  • After compression 24.1 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. Bar-codes.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 10.3 kB or 30% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 10 (32%)

Requests Now

31

After Optimization

21

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 31 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Barcodes. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 8 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

bar-codes.co.za

bar-codes.co.za

329 ms

bar-codes.co.za

bar-codes.co.za

609 ms

bootstrap.min.css

bootstrap.min.css

434 ms

style.css

style.css

870 ms

1ab0ec8c37584483f2b0c6e376297b79.js

1ab0ec8c37584483f2b0c6e376297b79.js

882 ms

font-awesome.min.css

font-awesome.min.css

34 ms

jquery.js

jquery.js

929 ms

bootstrap.min.js

bootstrap.min.js

872 ms

html5lightbox.js

html5lightbox.js

1060 ms

fbevents.js

fbevents.js

59 ms

barcodes.jpg

barcodes.jpg

549 ms

iconflag.png

iconflag.png

373 ms

grn-masthead.jpg

grn-masthead.jpg

500 ms

click-here.png

click-here.png

406 ms

buy-barcodes.png

buy-barcodes.png

575 ms

types.jpg

types.jpg

606 ms

testimonials-back.jpg

testimonials-back.jpg

548 ms

7.png

7.png

547 ms

8.jpg

8.jpg

826 ms

2.jpg

2.jpg

845 ms

9.jpg

9.jpg

885 ms

3.png

3.png

842 ms

6.png

6.png

870 ms

5.png

5.png

1213 ms

company-brands.png

company-brands.png

1596 ms

satis-guarntee.jpg

satis-guarntee.jpg

1320 ms

grn-chk.jpg

grn-chk.jpg

1413 ms

free-ship.jpg

free-ship.jpg

1415 ms

footer.jpg

footer.jpg

1476 ms

fontawesome-webfont.woff

fontawesome-webfont.woff

41 ms

froogaloop2.min.js

froogaloop2.min.js

1492 ms

iframe_api

iframe_api

37 ms

fontello.css

fontello.css

1505 ms

www-widgetapi.js

www-widgetapi.js

4 ms

Accessibility Review

bar-codes.co.za accessibility score

58

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

ARIA input fields do not have accessible names

High

Elements with an ARIA [role] that require children to contain a specific [role] are missing some or all of those required children.

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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.

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Lists do not contain only <li> elements and script supporting elements (<script> and <template>).

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

bar-codes.co.za best practices score

58

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

High

Includes front-end JavaScript libraries with known security vulnerabilities

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

bar-codes.co.za SEO score

82

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

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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 Bar-codes.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 Bar-codes.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

bar-codes.co.za

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of Barcodes. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: