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Report Summary

  • 15

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    27% of other websites

  • 95

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 86% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    83% of websites

bcgstainless.co.za

BCG Stainless | Leading Stainless Steel Supplier in South Africa | Home

Page Load Speed

14.9 sec in total

First Response

2.1 sec

Resources Loaded

10.8 sec

Page Rendered

2 sec

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About Website

Click here to check amazing BCG Stainless content. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about bcgstainless.co.za

We are a leading Stainless Steel Supplier. We supply Stainless Steel Components including Tubing, Valves, Pumps and various other components. Get a Quote.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Bcgstainless.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 2.1 sec and then it took 12.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 90% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

bcgstainless.co.za performance score

15

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.7 s

2/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value12.1 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value35.0 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value9,040 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.051

99/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value40.2 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

bcgstainless.co.za

2117 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

260 ms

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463 ms

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705 ms

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1711 ms

Our browser made a total of 103 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 67% of them (69 requests) were addressed to the original Bcgstainless.co.za, 12% (12 requests) were made to Youtube.com and 7% (7 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (5 sec) belongs to the original domain Bcgstainless.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 638.8 kB (11%)

Content Size

5.8 MB

After Optimization

5.2 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Bcgstainless.co.za main page is 5.8 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. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Images take 4.5 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 148.8 kB

  • Original 171.7 kB
  • After minification 169.6 kB
  • After compression 22.9 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 148.8 kB or 87% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-10%

Potential reduce by 472.2 kB

  • Original 4.5 MB
  • After minification 4.1 MB

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. BCG Stainless images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 9.1 kB

  • Original 829.0 kB
  • After minification 829.0 kB
  • After compression 819.8 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 8.7 kB

  • Original 296.8 kB
  • After minification 296.8 kB
  • After compression 288.2 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. Bcgstainless.co.za has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 31 (34%)

Requests Now

91

After Optimization

60

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 91 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of BCG Stainless. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 24 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 9 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

bcgstainless.co.za

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Accessibility Review

bcgstainless.co.za accessibility score

95

Accessibility Issues

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.

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

bcgstainless.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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

bcgstainless.co.za SEO score

93

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

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 Bcgstainless.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 Bcgstainless.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

bcgstainless.co.za

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