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Report Summary

  • 15

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    27% of other websites

  • 82

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 52% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 83

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    46% of websites

brandrank.co.za

BrandRank | Website Design and Internet Marketing Pietermaritzburg

Page Load Speed

12.3 sec in total

First Response

2 sec

Resources Loaded

9.4 sec

Page Rendered

924 ms

brandrank.co.za screenshot

About Website

Welcome to brandrank.co.za homepage info - get ready to check Brand Rank best content right away, or after learning these important things about brandrank.co.za

We are a Website Design and Internet Marketing Agency based in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa. We specialise in helping your customers find you.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Brandrank.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 2 sec and then it took 10.3 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

brandrank.co.za performance score

15

Measured Metrics

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value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.4 s

38/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value13.5 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value14.5 s

1/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,200 ms

20/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.372

28/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value14.4 s

9/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

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1546 ms

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Our browser made a total of 49 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 33% of them (16 requests) were addressed to the original Brandrank.co.za, 45% (22 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 8% (4 requests) were made to Maps.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.8 sec) belongs to the original domain Brandrank.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 103.5 kB (12%)

Content Size

831.4 kB

After Optimization

727.9 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Brandrank.co.za main page is 831.4 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. 55% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 372.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 96.4 kB

  • Original 119.5 kB
  • After minification 119.3 kB
  • After compression 23.1 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 96.4 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 5.3 kB

  • Original 224.2 kB
  • After minification 218.9 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. Brand Rank images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 1.7 kB

  • Original 372.1 kB
  • After minification 372.1 kB
  • After compression 370.4 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

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 115.5 kB
  • After minification 115.5 kB
  • After compression 115.5 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. Brandrank.co.za has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 11 (65%)

Requests Now

17

After Optimization

6

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 17 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Brand Rank. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 7 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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Accessibility Review

brandrank.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

<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

Best Practices

brandrank.co.za best practices score

83

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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

brandrank.co.za SEO score

83

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

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

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 Brandrank.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 Brandrank.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

brandrank.co.za

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