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Report Summary

  • 42

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    61% of other websites

  • 94

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 83% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 91

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    70% of websites

beacon.co.za

South African Candy: Quality Sweets & Treats | Beacon

Page Load Speed

11.3 sec in total

First Response

471 ms

Resources Loaded

4.6 sec

Page Rendered

6.3 sec

beacon.co.za screenshot

About Website

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

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Key Findings

We analyzed Beacon.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 471 ms and then it took 10.9 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

beacon.co.za performance score

42

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.2 s

3/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value10.2 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.0 s

21/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value360 ms

72/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.037

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value9.1 s

33/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

beacon.co.za

471 ms

www.beacon.co.za

1651 ms

optimized-min.css

186 ms

optimized-min.css

413 ms

optimized-min.css

277 ms

Our browser made a total of 54 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 96% of them (52 requests) were addressed to the original Beacon.co.za, 2% (1 request) were made to Googletagmanager.com and 2% (1 request) were made to Static.hotjar.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.7 sec) belongs to the original domain Beacon.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 2.5 MB (9%)

Content Size

28.6 MB

After Optimization

26.1 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Beacon.co.za main page is 28.6 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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 27.9 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 26.0 kB

  • Original 34.3 kB
  • After minification 32.2 kB
  • After compression 8.3 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 76% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 2.3 MB

  • Original 27.9 MB
  • After minification 25.6 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. Beacon images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-24%

Potential reduce by 136.4 kB

  • Original 561.4 kB
  • After minification 561.3 kB
  • After compression 425.1 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 136.4 kB or 24% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-61%

Potential reduce by 79.0 kB

  • Original 129.8 kB
  • After minification 74.8 kB
  • After compression 50.7 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. Beacon.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 79.0 kB or 61% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 15 (31%)

Requests Now

48

After Optimization

33

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 48 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Beacon. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 13 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

beacon.co.za

beacon.co.za

471 ms

www.beacon.co.za

www.beacon.co.za

1651 ms

optimized-min.css

optimized-min.css

186 ms

optimized-min.css

optimized-min.css

413 ms

optimized-min.css

optimized-min.css

277 ms

optimized-min.css

optimized-min.css

644 ms

VisitorIdentification.js

VisitorIdentification.js

299 ms

optimized-min.js

optimized-min.js

614 ms

optimized-min.js

optimized-min.js

698 ms

optimized-min.js

optimized-min.js

374 ms

optimized-min.js

optimized-min.js

397 ms

optimized-min.js

optimized-min.js

470 ms

optimized-min.js

optimized-min.js

492 ms

optimized-min.js

optimized-min.js

519 ms

optimized-min.js

optimized-min.js

798 ms

optimized-min.js

optimized-min.js

609 ms

optimized-min.js

optimized-min.js

817 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

230 ms

hotjar-2272453.js

hotjar-2272453.js

232 ms

sweets-background.png

sweets-background.png

231 ms

beacon-logo-shadow.png

beacon-logo-shadow.png

250 ms

smile-large.png

smile-large.png

229 ms

Beacon_MelkTert-HomeSliders.png

Beacon_MelkTert-HomeSliders.png

514 ms

Beacon_MelkTert-HomeSliders-Mobi.png

Beacon_MelkTert-HomeSliders-Mobi.png

750 ms

Beacon_GuessTheFlavour-HomeSliders.png

Beacon_GuessTheFlavour-HomeSliders.png

544 ms

Beacon_GuessTheFlavour-HomeSliders-Mobi.png

Beacon_GuessTheFlavour-HomeSliders-Mobi.png

606 ms

Mallows-Homepage-Slider-Desktop.png

Mallows-Homepage-Slider-Desktop.png

543 ms

Mallows-Homepage-Slider-Desktop---Mobile.jpg

Mallows-Homepage-Slider-Desktop---Mobile.jpg

785 ms

jelly-tots.jpg

jelly-tots.jpg

634 ms

jelly-tots.jpg

jelly-tots.jpg

709 ms

Allsorts-Q2-Homepage-Slider-Web.png

Allsorts-Q2-Homepage-Slider-Web.png

771 ms

Allsorts-Q2-Homepage-Slider-Web-Mobile.png

Allsorts-Q2-Homepage-Slider-Web-Mobile.png

854 ms

Maynards-Brand-Clarity-HomeSlider-Q3.png

Maynards-Brand-Clarity-HomeSlider-Q3.png

781 ms

Maynards-Brand-Clarity-HomePage-Slider-Mobi-Q3.jpg

Maynards-Brand-Clarity-HomePage-Slider-Mobi-Q3.jpg

863 ms

hero-curve.png

hero-curve.png

857 ms

Beacon_MelkTert-Footer-Banner.png

Beacon_MelkTert-Footer-Banner.png

898 ms

Beacon_MelkTert-Footer-Mobi.png

Beacon_MelkTert-Footer-Mobi.png

913 ms

beacon-logo.svg

beacon-logo.svg

907 ms

fb-icon.png

fb-icon.png

1010 ms

twitter-icon.png

twitter-icon.png

1011 ms

instagram-icon.png

instagram-icon.png

1015 ms

footer-top.png

footer-top.png

863 ms

overlay-bg.png

overlay-bg.png

861 ms

928 ms

ionicons.woff

ionicons.woff

884 ms

pacifico-regular-webfont-woff.woff

pacifico-regular-webfont-woff.woff

898 ms

fontawesome-webfont-woff.woff

fontawesome-webfont-woff.woff

959 ms

fontawesome-webfont-woff.woff

fontawesome-webfont-woff.woff

935 ms

Beacon-Treats-to-Complement-Your-Fun-Activities-(1).jpg

Beacon-Treats-to-Complement-Your-Fun-Activities-(1).jpg

297 ms

Discover-your-personality-type.jpg

Discover-your-personality-type.jpg

417 ms

shutterstock_1408567424.jpg

shutterstock_1408567424.jpg

602 ms

4-Creative-Ways-to-Decorate-an-Indoor-Picnic.jpg

4-Creative-Ways-to-Decorate-an-Indoor-Picnic.jpg

356 ms

Beacon_MandelaDayArticle_650X500.jpg

Beacon_MandelaDayArticle_650X500.jpg

189 ms

3-microwave-mug-cakes.jpg

3-microwave-mug-cakes.jpg

333 ms

Accessibility Review

beacon.co.za accessibility score

94

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

beacon.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

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

beacon.co.za SEO score

91

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

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    N/A

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Beacon.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 Beacon.co.za main page’s claimed encoding is . 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

beacon.co.za

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