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Report Summary

  • 7

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    22% of other websites

  • 88

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 68% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 75

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    32% of websites

contractgroup.co.za

Contract Hardware Architectural Ironmongery Solutions

Page Load Speed

10.2 sec in total

First Response

1 sec

Resources Loaded

8.5 sec

Page Rendered

695 ms

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About Website

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

As one of the largest architectural ironmongery suppliers and producers in South Africa, we’ll ensure your project receives superior-quality finishes.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Contractgroup.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 1 sec and then it took 9.2 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

contractgroup.co.za performance score

7

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.5 s

2/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value18.2 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value20.6 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,930 ms

8/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.409

24/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value17.6 s

4/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

contractgroup.co.za

1007 ms

www.contracthardware.co.za

1845 ms

bootstrap.min.css

307 ms

style.css

611 ms

font-awesome.css

900 ms

Our browser made a total of 89 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Contractgroup.co.za, 79% (70 requests) were made to Contracthardware.co.za and 9% (8 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (3.3 sec) relates to the external source Contracthardware.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 250.9 kB (4%)

Content Size

6.2 MB

After Optimization

5.9 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Contractgroup.co.za main page is 6.2 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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 5.8 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 51.3 kB

  • Original 60.6 kB
  • After minification 50.5 kB
  • After compression 9.3 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 10.1 kB, which is 17% 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 51.3 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 173.6 kB

  • Original 5.8 MB
  • After minification 5.6 MB

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. Contract Group images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 18.0 kB

  • Original 237.2 kB
  • After minification 237.2 kB
  • After compression 219.1 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

-12%

Potential reduce by 7.9 kB

  • Original 67.7 kB
  • After minification 67.6 kB
  • After compression 59.7 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. Contractgroup.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 7.9 kB or 12% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 30 (41%)

Requests Now

74

After Optimization

44

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 74 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Contract Group. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 19 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 13 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

contractgroup.co.za

contractgroup.co.za

1007 ms

www.contracthardware.co.za

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1845 ms

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307 ms

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611 ms

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900 ms

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902 ms

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51 ms

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68 ms

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903 ms

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907 ms

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913 ms

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933 ms

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1201 ms

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53 ms

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35 ms

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45 ms

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1292 ms

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1294 ms

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1828 ms

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67 ms

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51 ms

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18 ms

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24 ms

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57 ms

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1000 ms

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888 ms

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2374 ms

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Accessibility Review

contractgroup.co.za accessibility score

88

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

contractgroup.co.za best practices score

67

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

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

contractgroup.co.za SEO score

75

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

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

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 Contractgroup.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 Contractgroup.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

contractgroup.co.za

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Contract Group. 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: