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Report Summary

  • 50

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    68% of other websites

  • 94

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 83% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 88

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    65% of websites

border.co.za

Want Fast, Reliable Internet? Fibre | Wireless | Internet - Herotel

Page Load Speed

5.6 sec in total

First Response

878 ms

Resources Loaded

4.5 sec

Page Rendered

208 ms

border.co.za screenshot

About Website

Click here to check amazing Border content for South Africa. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about border.co.za

Herotel is the largest fixed wireless internet service provider in South Africa. We connect over 100 000 home and business users to the internet across more than 400 towns and cities.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Border.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 878 ms and then it took 4.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 70% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

border.co.za performance score

50

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.0 s

10/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.3 s

5/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.4 s

12/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value100 ms

98/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.108

87/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value8.2 s

40/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

border.co.za

878 ms

www.border.co.za

1151 ms

www.herotel.com

1480 ms

style.min.css

18 ms

dashicons.min.css

47 ms

Our browser made a total of 37 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 5% of them (2 requests) were addressed to the original Border.co.za, 81% (30 requests) were made to Herotel.com and 8% (3 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.5 sec) relates to the external source Herotel.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 129.2 kB (27%)

Content Size

482.8 kB

After Optimization

353.6 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript

In fact, the total size of Border.co.za main page is 482.8 kB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 50% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 249.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 128.8 kB

  • Original 156.7 kB
  • After minification 151.8 kB
  • After compression 27.9 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 128.8 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 363 B

  • Original 249.3 kB
  • After minification 248.9 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. Border images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 76.9 kB
  • After minification 76.9 kB
  • After compression 76.9 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.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 21 (70%)

Requests Now

30

After Optimization

9

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 30 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Border. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 12 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 11 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

border.co.za

border.co.za

878 ms

www.border.co.za

www.border.co.za

1151 ms

www.herotel.com

www.herotel.com

1480 ms

style.min.css

style.min.css

18 ms

dashicons.min.css

dashicons.min.css

47 ms

cookie-law-info-public.css

cookie-law-info-public.css

51 ms

cookie-law-info-gdpr.css

cookie-law-info-gdpr.css

49 ms

styles.min.css

styles.min.css

49 ms

nouislider.min.css

nouislider.min.css

52 ms

integrity-light.css

integrity-light.css

32 ms

style.css

style.css

53 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

53 ms

jquery-migrate.min.js

jquery-migrate.min.js

69 ms

cookie-law-info-public.js

cookie-law-info-public.js

67 ms

nouislider.min.js

nouislider.min.js

66 ms

css

css

80 ms

add_coverage_map_style.css

add_coverage_map_style.css

861 ms

cookie-law-info-table.css

cookie-law-info-table.css

76 ms

cs-classic.7.5.2.js

cs-classic.7.5.2.js

108 ms

ht.herotil.js

ht.herotil.js

109 ms

gtm4wp-form-move-tracker.js

gtm4wp-form-move-tracker.js

110 ms

x.js

x.js

110 ms

comment-reply.min.js

comment-reply.min.js

109 ms

add_coverage_map.js

add_coverage_map.js

909 ms

js

js

167 ms

js.cookie.js

js.cookie.js

109 ms

herotel-logo-horizontal.svg

herotel-logo-horizontal.svg

37 ms

herotel-logo-descriptor.svg

herotel-logo-descriptor.svg

40 ms

herotel-logo.svg

herotel-logo.svg

39 ms

ISPA-Code-of-Conduct-logo.png

ISPA-Code-of-Conduct-logo.png

43 ms

white-pattern-500px.png

white-pattern-500px.png

15 ms

home-landing-14052021.jpg

home-landing-14052021.jpg

21 ms

logo-cookieyes.svg

logo-cookieyes.svg

14 ms

font

font

43 ms

font

font

81 ms

font

font

12 ms

fa-brands-400.ttf

fa-brands-400.ttf

30 ms

Accessibility Review

border.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

border.co.za best practices score

92

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

border.co.za SEO score

88

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

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

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

border.co.za

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