Report Summary

  • 27

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    47% of other websites

  • 90

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 75% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 90

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    68% of websites

cosmo.co.za

Cosmopolitan Projects Property Developers - Cosmopolitan Projects

Page Load Speed

17.3 sec in total

First Response

1.7 sec

Resources Loaded

12 sec

Page Rendered

3.5 sec

cosmo.co.za screenshot

About Website

Visit cosmo.co.za now to see the best up-to-date Cosmo content for South Africa and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about cosmo.co.za

Cosmopolitan Projects Property Developers provide new and affordable houses in developments with lifestyle amenities throughout Gauteng.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Cosmo.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 1.7 sec and then it took 15.6 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

cosmo.co.za performance score

27

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.7 s

12/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value17.9 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value16.0 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value810 ms

36/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.008

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value21.8 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

cosmo.co.za

1731 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

992 ms

admin-ajax.php

2078 ms

style.min.css

65 ms

styles.css

1024 ms

Our browser made a total of 59 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 76% of them (45 requests) were addressed to the original Cosmo.co.za, 7% (4 requests) were made to Cdnjs.cloudflare.com and 5% (3 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (6.2 sec) belongs to the original domain Cosmo.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.3 MB (7%)

Content Size

17.6 MB

After Optimization

16.3 MB

In fact, the total size of Cosmo.co.za main page is 17.6 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 17.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-91%

Potential reduce by 117.1 kB

  • Original 128.6 kB
  • After minification 117.5 kB
  • After compression 11.5 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 117.1 kB or 91% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 1.1 MB

  • Original 17.3 MB
  • After minification 16.2 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. Cosmo images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 505 B

  • Original 85.4 kB
  • After minification 85.4 kB
  • After compression 84.9 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.

CSS Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 2.0 kB

  • Original 44.3 kB
  • After minification 44.3 kB
  • After compression 42.3 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. Cosmo.co.za has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 29 (55%)

Requests Now

53

After Optimization

24

The browser has sent 53 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Cosmo. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 18 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 8 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

cosmo.co.za accessibility score

90

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.

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

ARIA IDs are not unique

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Best Practices

cosmo.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

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

cosmo.co.za SEO score

90

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

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 Cosmo.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 Cosmo.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

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