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Report Summary

  • 74

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    83% of other websites

  • 51

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 21% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    20% of websites

  • 69

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    28% of websites

comx-computers.co.za

Computers! Online computer shop & notebook sales South Africa - Computers, laptops, notebooks and software sales. Computer sales, notebooks and digita...

Page Load Speed

4.3 sec in total

First Response

506 ms

Resources Loaded

3.4 sec

Page Rendered

333 ms

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About Website

Click here to check amazing Comx Computers content for South Africa. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about comx-computers.co.za

Computers South Africa. Computers, laptops, notebooks and software sales direct to the public in South Africa. We also offer the best price on notebooks, laptops, computers and digital projectors.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Comx-computers.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 506 ms and then it took 3.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 65% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

comx-computers.co.za performance score

74

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.1 s

48/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.1 s

74/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.8 s

67/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value350 ms

73/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.008

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value5.8 s

66/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

comx-computers.co.za

506 ms

www.comx-computers.co.za

936 ms

style1201c.css

98 ms

head.load.min.js

197 ms

jquery-1.2.6.pack.js

379 ms

Our browser made a total of 50 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 86% of them (43 requests) were addressed to the original Comx-computers.co.za, 4% (2 requests) were made to Comx.co.za and 4% (2 requests) were made to Static.xx.fbcdn.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.5 sec) belongs to the original domain Comx-computers.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 43.0 kB (21%)

Content Size

200.9 kB

After Optimization

158.0 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Comx-computers.co.za main page is 200.9 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. 25% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 123.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 39.0 kB

  • Original 51.0 kB
  • After minification 49.6 kB
  • After compression 12.0 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 39.0 kB or 77% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 1.8 kB

  • Original 123.6 kB
  • After minification 121.8 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. Comx Computers images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 872 B

  • Original 20.6 kB
  • After minification 20.6 kB
  • After compression 19.8 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

-23%

Potential reduce by 1.3 kB

  • Original 5.7 kB
  • After minification 5.7 kB
  • After compression 4.4 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. Comx-computers.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 1.3 kB or 23% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 20 (42%)

Requests Now

48

After Optimization

28

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 48 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Comx Computers. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 6 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

comx-computers.co.za

comx-computers.co.za

506 ms

www.comx-computers.co.za

www.comx-computers.co.za

936 ms

style1201c.css

style1201c.css

98 ms

head.load.min.js

head.load.min.js

197 ms

jquery-1.2.6.pack.js

jquery-1.2.6.pack.js

379 ms

javascript-clean.js

javascript-clean.js

283 ms

js

js

56 ms

footerAd.js

footerAd.js

285 ms

like.php

like.php

257 ms

__report-viewed.php

__report-viewed.php

160 ms

1.png

1.png

512 ms

silver_alum.gif

silver_alum.gif

196 ms

corner-tl.gif

corner-tl.gif

160 ms

corner-tr.gif

corner-tr.gif

160 ms

bg-top-shade.gif

bg-top-shade.gif

158 ms

bg-shade.jpg

bg-shade.jpg

206 ms

top-bar-small.gif

top-bar-small.gif

208 ms

menu_sprite2.gif

menu_sprite2.gif

216 ms

s.gif

s.gif

217 ms

subscribe-news.gif

subscribe-news.gif

299 ms

say-no-to-eskom.jpg

say-no-to-eskom.jpg

389 ms

laptops-work-play.gif

laptops-work-play.gif

398 ms

loadshedding-battery-backup.jpg

loadshedding-battery-backup.jpg

315 ms

adsl-fibre-shhh.gif

adsl-fibre-shhh.gif

323 ms

cart-view.gif

cart-view.gif

324 ms

front3.jpg

front3.jpg

400 ms

comx-computers-top-tab.jpg

comx-computers-top-tab.jpg

414 ms

laptops-new.jpg

laptops-new.jpg

425 ms

mobile-shopping.gif

mobile-shopping.gif

426 ms

icons-home-big.jpg

icons-home-big.jpg

487 ms

th130_a90551-b_1.jpg

th130_a90551-b_1.jpg

495 ms

th130_a92614-beu_1.jpg

th130_a92614-beu_1.jpg

503 ms

th130_a91620-b_1.jpg

th130_a91620-b_1.jpg

513 ms

closex.gif

closex.gif

522 ms

lock.gif

lock.gif

528 ms

corner-bl.gif

corner-bl.gif

582 ms

corner-br.gif

corner-br.gif

591 ms

myc.php

myc.php

1534 ms

full-bar.jpg

full-bar.jpg

465 ms

background_blue.gif

background_blue.gif

473 ms

search-box.jpg

search-box.jpg

486 ms

blb.gif

blb.gif

536 ms

brb.gif

brb.gif

543 ms

tlbig.gif

tlbig.gif

565 ms

trb.gif

trb.gif

569 ms

current-specials-110x98.gif

current-specials-110x98.gif

584 ms

advertisefree.php

advertisefree.php

695 ms

w9py8-RGams.js

w9py8-RGams.js

25 ms

FEppCFCt76d.png

FEppCFCt76d.png

17 ms

webafrica-advert-small.gif

webafrica-advert-small.gif

102 ms

Accessibility Review

comx-computers.co.za accessibility score

51

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

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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

Best Practices

comx-computers.co.za best practices score

58

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

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

comx-computers.co.za SEO score

69

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

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

comx-computers.co.za

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Comx Computers. 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: