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Report Summary

  • 67

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    79% of other websites

  • 86

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 61% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 75

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    32% of websites

chemicalspecialities.co.za

CHEMICAL SPECIALITIES: Chemical Importers & Suppliers - South Africa

Page Load Speed

3.9 sec in total

First Response

763 ms

Resources Loaded

3 sec

Page Rendered

129 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Chemicalspecialities.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 763 ms and then it took 3.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 55% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

chemicalspecialities.co.za performance score

67

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.7 s

60/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.1 s

12/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.9 s

33/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value2.7 s

97/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

chemicalspecialities.co.za

763 ms

interval_handle.js

249 ms

rotating_picture.js

473 ms

rollover.js

481 ms

fusion.css

484 ms

Our browser made a total of 27 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 89% of them (24 requests) were addressed to the original Chemicalspecialities.co.za, 4% (1 request) were made to S7.addthis.com and 4% (1 request) were made to Mycounter.tinycounter.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.7 sec) belongs to the original domain Chemicalspecialities.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 67.1 kB (9%)

Content Size

753.9 kB

After Optimization

686.8 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Chemicalspecialities.co.za main page is 753.9 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. 20% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 724.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 17.1 kB

  • Original 21.2 kB
  • After minification 17.9 kB
  • After compression 4.1 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 3.2 kB, which is 15% of the original size. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 17.1 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 48.5 kB

  • Original 724.3 kB
  • After minification 675.8 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. CHEMICAL SPECIALITIES images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-18%

Potential reduce by 1.3 kB

  • Original 7.2 kB
  • After minification 7.2 kB
  • After compression 6.0 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 1.3 kB or 18% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-21%

Potential reduce by 259 B

  • Original 1.2 kB
  • After minification 1.2 kB
  • After compression 973 B

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. Chemicalspecialities.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 259 B or 21% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

23

After Optimization

23

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 23 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of CHEMICAL SPECIALITIES. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Network Requests Diagram

chemicalspecialities.co.za

chemicalspecialities.co.za

763 ms

interval_handle.js

interval_handle.js

249 ms

rotating_picture.js

rotating_picture.js

473 ms

rollover.js

rollover.js

481 ms

fusion.css

fusion.css

484 ms

style.css

style.css

491 ms

site.css

site.css

496 ms

addthis_widget.js

addthis_widget.js

34 ms

clearpixel.gif

clearpixel.gif

279 ms

Home_Himg_111.jpg

Home_Himg_111.jpg

266 ms

Products_Nimg_112.jpg

Products_Nimg_112.jpg

267 ms

Gallery_Nimg_112.jpg

Gallery_Nimg_112.jpg

260 ms

Contact_Nimg_112.jpg

Contact_Nimg_112.jpg

277 ms

index.php

index.php

48 ms

button1-share.gif

button1-share.gif

136 ms

img_14.jpg

img_14.jpg

268 ms

img_11.jpg

img_11.jpg

984 ms

potassium_hydroxide.jpg

potassium_hydroxide.jpg

1204 ms

graphite.jpg

graphite.jpg

1474 ms

precipitated_silica.jpg

precipitated_silica.jpg

1511 ms

polyethylene_glycol.jpg

polyethylene_glycol.jpg

1492 ms

nickel_sulphate.jpg

nickel_sulphate.jpg

1494 ms

Chemical_Plant.jpeg

Chemical_Plant.jpeg

1241 ms

BuiltWithNOF.gif

BuiltWithNOF.gif

1453 ms

img_110.jpg

img_110.jpg

1567 ms

img_17.jpg

img_17.jpg

1693 ms

img_15.jpg

img_15.jpg

1712 ms

Accessibility Review

chemicalspecialities.co.za accessibility score

86

Accessibility Issues

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

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

chemicalspecialities.co.za best practices score

67

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

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

chemicalspecialities.co.za SEO score

75

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Chemicalspecialities.co.za can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Chemicalspecialities.co.za main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

chemicalspecialities.co.za

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of CHEMICAL SPECIALITIES. Lack of Open Graph description can be counter-productive for their social media presence, as such a description allows converting a website homepage (or other pages) into good-looking, rich and well-structured posts, when it is being shared on Facebook and other social media. For example, adding the following code snippet into HTML <head> tag will help to represent this web page correctly in social networks: