Report Summary

  • 15

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    27% of other websites

  • 82

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 54% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 88

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    66% of websites

bolwear.co.za

Bolwear |

Page Load Speed

9.9 sec in total

First Response

1.3 sec

Resources Loaded

8.2 sec

Page Rendered

380 ms

bolwear.co.za screenshot

About Website

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

Bolton Footwear is a dynamic role-player in the footwear manufacture and wholesale trade. One of South Africa’s leading footwear companies.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Bolwear.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 1.3 sec and then it took 8.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 85% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

bolwear.co.za performance score

15

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value10.8 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value11.0 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value33.2 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value6,750 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.05

99/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value36.2 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.bolwear.co.za

1332 ms

css

21 ms

qode-quick-links.min.css

295 ms

settings.css

574 ms

style.css

576 ms

Our browser made a total of 107 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 94% of them (101 requests) were addressed to the original Bolwear.co.za, 2% (2 requests) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com and 2% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.6 sec) belongs to the original domain Bolwear.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 85.0 kB (7%)

Content Size

1.2 MB

After Optimization

1.1 MB

In fact, the total size of Bolwear.co.za main page is 1.2 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. 55% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 644.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 47.7 kB

  • Original 58.5 kB
  • After minification 56.3 kB
  • After compression 10.8 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 47.7 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 29.6 kB

  • Original 644.8 kB
  • After minification 615.1 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. Bolwear images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 2.8 kB

  • Original 266.9 kB
  • After minification 266.5 kB
  • After compression 264.0 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 4.9 kB

  • Original 180.7 kB
  • After minification 179.9 kB
  • After compression 175.9 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. Bolwear.co.za has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 83 (79%)

Requests Now

105

After Optimization

22

The browser has sent 105 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Bolwear. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 67 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 18 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

bolwear.co.za accessibility score

82

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.

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

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

bolwear.co.za best practices score

75

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

SEO Factors

bolwear.co.za SEO score

88

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

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 Bolwear.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 Bolwear.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

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