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Report Summary

  • 10

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    23% of other websites

  • 91

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 76% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 76

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    35% of websites

blue.co.za

3Gi Internet Services - broadband, internet, website hosting

Page Load Speed

16.6 sec in total

First Response

1.1 sec

Resources Loaded

15.1 sec

Page Rendered

434 ms

blue.co.za screenshot

About Website

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

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Key Findings

We analyzed Blue.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 1.1 sec and then it took 15.6 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

blue.co.za performance score

10

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value9.2 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value15.3 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value21.5 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value8,220 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.174

69/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value21.2 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

blue.co.za

1076 ms

3gi.co.za

4233 ms

js

97 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

306 ms

style.min.css

593 ms

Our browser made a total of 153 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Blue.co.za, 84% (129 requests) were made to 3gi.co.za and 9% (14 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (4.2 sec) relates to the external source 3gi.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 798.7 kB (44%)

Content Size

1.8 MB

After Optimization

1.0 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Blue.co.za main page is 1.8 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. 75% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Images take 1.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 131.8 kB

  • Original 170.7 kB
  • After minification 166.9 kB
  • After compression 38.9 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 131.8 kB or 77% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-51%

Potential reduce by 525.6 kB

  • Original 1.0 MB
  • After minification 507.7 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. Obviously, Blue needs image optimization as it can save up to 525.6 kB or 51% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 11.1 kB

  • Original 210.8 kB
  • After minification 210.8 kB
  • After compression 199.6 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

-33%

Potential reduce by 130.2 kB

  • Original 393.6 kB
  • After minification 389.9 kB
  • After compression 263.4 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. Blue.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 130.2 kB or 33% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 113 (86%)

Requests Now

132

After Optimization

19

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 132 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Blue. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 65 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 50 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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Accessibility Review

blue.co.za accessibility score

91

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

[id] attributes on active, focusable elements are not unique

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

blue.co.za best practices score

83

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

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

blue.co.za SEO score

76

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

High

robots.txt is not valid

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 Blue.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 Blue.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

blue.co.za

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