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Report Summary

  • 22

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    40% of other websites

  • 73

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 38% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 82

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    44% of websites

bluewatergear.co.za

Blue Water Gear South Africa - Sales & Distribution

Page Load Speed

6 sec in total

First Response

528 ms

Resources Loaded

5.1 sec

Page Rendered

325 ms

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About Website

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Supplying cutting edge products to the fishing community and powering screaming reels since 2011

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Key Findings

We analyzed Bluewatergear.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 528 ms and then it took 5.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 75% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

bluewatergear.co.za performance score

22

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.4 s

7/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value10.2 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.2 s

20/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,730 ms

10/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.004

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value14.0 s

10/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

bluewatergear.co.za

528 ms

bluewatergear.co.za

1650 ms

js

79 ms

theme-2c5a74237.css

1314 ms

bottom-550ee6236.js

1839 ms

Our browser made a total of 22 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 91% of them (20 requests) were addressed to the original Bluewatergear.co.za, 5% (1 request) were made to Googletagmanager.com and 5% (1 request) were made to Connect.facebook.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.8 sec) belongs to the original domain Bluewatergear.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 524.7 kB (34%)

Content Size

1.5 MB

After Optimization

999.4 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Bluewatergear.co.za main page is 1.5 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. HTML takes 548.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-92%

Potential reduce by 502.0 kB

  • Original 548.6 kB
  • After minification 508.3 kB
  • After compression 46.6 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 502.0 kB or 92% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 21.7 kB

  • Original 497.1 kB
  • After minification 475.4 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. Blue Water Gear images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 12 B

  • Original 331.5 kB
  • After minification 331.5 kB
  • After compression 331.5 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

-1%

Potential reduce by 1.0 kB

  • Original 146.9 kB
  • After minification 146.9 kB
  • After compression 145.9 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. Bluewatergear.co.za has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

14

After Optimization

14

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 14 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Blue Water Gear. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Network Requests Diagram

bluewatergear.co.za

bluewatergear.co.za

528 ms

bluewatergear.co.za

bluewatergear.co.za

1650 ms

js

js

79 ms

theme-2c5a74237.css

theme-2c5a74237.css

1314 ms

bottom-550ee6236.js

bottom-550ee6236.js

1839 ms

fbevents.js

fbevents.js

180 ms

BWG_Logo.png

BWG_Logo.png

322 ms

BWGBlackSmall.jpg

BWGBlackSmall.jpg

321 ms

Hundo%20100%20Banner.jpg

Hundo%20100%20Banner.jpg

1102 ms

FlockHair%20jig.jpg

FlockHair%20jig.jpg

584 ms

The%20Goat%20150%20Banner.jpg

The%20Goat%20150%20Banner.jpg

1208 ms

BaitPop.jpg

BaitPop.jpg

1208 ms

Bongo%203-7.jpg

Bongo%203-7.jpg

1255 ms

Bait%20Pop%20Section%20Banner.jpg

Bait%20Pop%20Section%20Banner.jpg

846 ms

ESP%20Rods%20Section%20Banner.jpg

ESP%20Rods%20Section%20Banner.jpg

893 ms

Rod%20Sleeves.jpg

Rod%20Sleeves.jpg

1109 ms

la-brands-400.woff

la-brands-400.woff

1093 ms

fa-brands-400.woff

fa-brands-400.woff

1834 ms

la-solid-900.woff

la-solid-900.woff

1309 ms

la-regular-400.woff

la-regular-400.woff

1369 ms

fa-solid-900.woff

fa-solid-900.woff

1834 ms

fa-regular-400.woff

fa-regular-400.woff

1368 ms

Accessibility Review

bluewatergear.co.za accessibility score

73

Accessibility Issues

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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

Best practices

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

bluewatergear.co.za best practices score

67

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

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

bluewatergear.co.za SEO score

82

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

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 Bluewatergear.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 Bluewatergear.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

bluewatergear.co.za

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