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Report Summary

  • 45

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    64% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    83% of websites

barcsa.co.za

BARC SA | BARC South Africa is a stand-alone dedicated clinical trials laboratory that supports the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industry in the d...

Page Load Speed

9.3 sec in total

First Response

1.9 sec

Resources Loaded

7.2 sec

Page Rendered

236 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Barcsa.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 1.9 sec and then it took 7.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 85% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

barcsa.co.za performance score

45

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value9.1 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.5 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value14.1 s

1/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value100 ms

98/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.094

91/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value12.6 s

14/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.barcsa.co.za

1886 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

437 ms

style.css

898 ms

styles.css

675 ms

jquery.wpcf7-starrating.css

681 ms

Our browser made a total of 48 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 83% of them (40 requests) were addressed to the original Barcsa.co.za, 4% (2 requests) were made to Netdna.bootstrapcdn.com and 4% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.9 sec) belongs to the original domain Barcsa.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 341.2 kB (27%)

Content Size

1.2 MB

After Optimization

903.0 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Barcsa.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. 30% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 770.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 26.0 kB

  • Original 33.2 kB
  • After minification 31.6 kB
  • After compression 7.2 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 26.0 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 15.5 kB

  • Original 770.6 kB
  • After minification 755.2 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. BARC SA images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-67%

Potential reduce by 184.0 kB

  • Original 273.3 kB
  • After minification 230.0 kB
  • After compression 89.3 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 184.0 kB or 67% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-69%

Potential reduce by 115.8 kB

  • Original 167.1 kB
  • After minification 144.5 kB
  • After compression 51.3 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. Barcsa.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 115.8 kB or 69% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 27 (64%)

Requests Now

42

After Optimization

15

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 42 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of BARC SA. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 16 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 13 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

www.barcsa.co.za

www.barcsa.co.za

1886 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

wp-emoji-release.min.js

437 ms

style.css

style.css

898 ms

styles.css

styles.css

675 ms

jquery.wpcf7-starrating.css

jquery.wpcf7-starrating.css

681 ms

font-awesome.min.css

font-awesome.min.css

33 ms

ssb-ui-style.css

ssb-ui-style.css

684 ms

font-awesome.css

font-awesome.css

921 ms

theme-my-login.min.css

theme-my-login.min.css

691 ms

if-menu-site.css

if-menu-site.css

900 ms

dashicons.min.css

dashicons.min.css

1365 ms

css

css

30 ms

font-awesome.min.css

font-awesome.min.css

1150 ms

style.css

style.css

1126 ms

style.css

style.css

1121 ms

jquery.js

jquery.js

1386 ms

jquery-migrate.min.js

jquery-migrate.min.js

1338 ms

ssb-ui-js.js

ssb-ui-js.js

1346 ms

theme-my-login.min.js

theme-my-login.min.js

1154 ms

responsive-menu.js

responsive-menu.js

1180 ms

js

js

83 ms

scripts.js

scripts.js

1358 ms

jquery.wpcf7-starrating.js

jquery.wpcf7-starrating.js

1369 ms

core.min.js

core.min.js

1384 ms

effect.min.js

effect.min.js

1389 ms

effect-shake.min.js

effect-shake.min.js

1409 ms

jquery.flexslider.js

jquery.flexslider.js

1416 ms

scripts.js

scripts.js

1798 ms

wp-embed.min.js

wp-embed.min.js

1593 ms

emailer-BARC_Header_Logo-1.jpg

emailer-BARC_Header_Logo-1.jpg

411 ms

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original_coronavirusimage3-13-1140x315.jpg

419 ms

Header_Slider_1-1140x315.png

Header_Slider_1-1140x315.png

1591 ms

Header_Slider_3-1140x315.png

Header_Slider_3-1140x315.png

912 ms

Homepage_Safety-300x100.jpg

Homepage_Safety-300x100.jpg

622 ms

Homepage_PBMC-300x100.jpg

Homepage_PBMC-300x100.jpg

642 ms

Homepage_Molecular-300x100.png

Homepage_Molecular-300x100.png

649 ms

Homepage_TB-300x100.png

Homepage_TB-300x100.png

817 ms

Homepage_Biobanking-300x100.png

Homepage_Biobanking-300x100.png

1062 ms

Homepage_Project_Management-300x100.png

Homepage_Project_Management-300x100.png

875 ms

icon-search.png

icon-search.png

878 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

40 ms

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33 ms

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34 ms

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fontawesome-webfont.woff

979 ms

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fontawesome-webfont.woff

1276 ms

fontawesome-webfont.woff

fontawesome-webfont.woff

18 ms

collect

collect

13 ms

icon-control-nav.png

icon-control-nav.png

487 ms

Accessibility Review

barcsa.co.za accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

barcsa.co.za best practices score

83

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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

barcsa.co.za SEO score

93

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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

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 Barcsa.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 Barcsa.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

barcsa.co.za

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of BARC SA. 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: