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Report Summary

  • 20

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    37% of other websites

  • 65

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 30% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    20% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

bedsdirect.co.za

Best Beds and Mattresses, Best Prices, Best service | Beds Direct,

Page Load Speed

11.6 sec in total

First Response

790 ms

Resources Loaded

10.7 sec

Page Rendered

140 ms

bedsdirect.co.za screenshot

About Website

Visit bedsdirect.co.za now to see the best up-to-date Beds Direct content for South Africa and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about bedsdirect.co.za

Bed Shop for Cloud Nine, Edblo, Sealy, Simmons, Slumberland, Rest Assured and Restonic Mattresses. Bed stores in Johannesburg & Cape Town

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Key Findings

We analyzed Bedsdirect.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 790 ms and then it took 10.8 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

bedsdirect.co.za performance score

20

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.0 s

10/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value13.8 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value13.8 s

1/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,100 ms

24/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.139

79/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value22.5 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

bedsdirect.co.za

790 ms

www.bedsdirect.co.za

3014 ms

js

68 ms

1230 ms

1726 ms

Our browser made a total of 86 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 66% of them (57 requests) were addressed to the original Bedsdirect.co.za, 10% (9 requests) were made to Embed.tawk.to and 8% (7 requests) were made to Google.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (3 sec) belongs to the original domain Bedsdirect.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 969.7 kB (46%)

Content Size

2.1 MB

After Optimization

1.1 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript

In fact, the total size of Bedsdirect.co.za main page is 2.1 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. 40% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.5 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 59.8 kB

  • Original 70.4 kB
  • After minification 65.4 kB
  • After compression 10.7 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 59.8 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-54%

Potential reduce by 816.4 kB

  • Original 1.5 MB
  • After minification 694.6 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. Obviously, Beds Direct needs image optimization as it can save up to 816.4 kB or 54% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-18%

Potential reduce by 93.6 kB

  • Original 531.5 kB
  • After minification 531.5 kB
  • After compression 438.0 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 93.6 kB or 18% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 34 (41%)

Requests Now

82

After Optimization

48

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 82 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Beds Direct. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 25 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

bedsdirect.co.za

bedsdirect.co.za

790 ms

www.bedsdirect.co.za

www.bedsdirect.co.za

3014 ms

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js

68 ms

1230 ms

1726 ms

platform.js

platform.js

39 ms

jquery.nivo.slider.pack.js

jquery.nivo.slider.pack.js

721 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

50 ms

logo.png

logo.png

265 ms

cart.jpg

cart.jpg

263 ms

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263 ms

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499 ms

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500 ms

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501 ms

sid.png

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735 ms

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737 ms

category_edblo.jpg

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742 ms

category_restassured.jpg

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739 ms

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751 ms

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741 ms

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975 ms

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979 ms

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978 ms

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2371 ms

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1214 ms

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1228 ms

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1682 ms

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1688 ms

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1685 ms

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1692 ms

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1469 ms

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1945 ms

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1926 ms

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1923 ms

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1925 ms

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2163 ms

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2166 ms

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2176 ms

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2184 ms

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2403 ms

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2418 ms

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2399 ms

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2UX7WLTfW3W8TclTUvlFyQ.woff

49 ms

ec.js

ec.js

9 ms

default

default

220 ms

collect

collect

32 ms

collect

collect

34 ms

cb=gapi.loaded_0

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6 ms

badge

badge

105 ms

js

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41 ms

ga-audiences

ga-audiences

31 ms

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8 ms

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39 ms

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9 ms

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2409 ms

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2353 ms

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10 ms

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12 ms

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13 ms

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6 ms

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5 ms

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2163 ms

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2128 ms

bar.png

bar.png

2151 ms

info_bg2.gif

info_bg2.gif

2149 ms

loading.gif

loading.gif

2161 ms

round_sale.png

round_sale.png

2161 ms

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info_bg2.jpg

2160 ms

mailhive.php

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2224 ms

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246 ms

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219 ms

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56 ms

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122 ms

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132 ms

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168 ms

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76 ms

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114 ms

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242 ms

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836 ms

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240 ms

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19 ms

Accessibility Review

bedsdirect.co.za accessibility score

65

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-hidden="true"] elements contain focusable descendents

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.

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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>).

High

List items (<li>) are not contained within <ul> or <ol> parent elements.

Best Practices

bedsdirect.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

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

bedsdirect.co.za SEO score

86

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

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

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

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Bedsdirect.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 Bedsdirect.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

bedsdirect.co.za

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