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Report Summary

  • 60

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    75% of other websites

  • 73

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 38% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    20% of websites

  • 62

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    23% of websites

d-eco.co.za

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Page Load Speed

5 sec in total

First Response

787 ms

Resources Loaded

3.9 sec

Page Rendered

294 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed D-eco.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 787 ms and then it took 4.2 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

d-eco.co.za performance score

60

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.2 s

19/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.1 s

2/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.1 s

44/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value30 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.001

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value4.8 s

79/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

d-eco.co.za

787 ms

layout2.css

253 ms

sIFR-screen.css

492 ms

swfobject.js

498 ms

flashbanner.js

500 ms

Our browser made a total of 48 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 92% of them (44 requests) were addressed to the original D-eco.co.za, 4% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 2% (1 request) were made to Ajax.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.1 sec) belongs to the original domain D-eco.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 66.8 kB (6%)

Content Size

1.2 MB

After Optimization

1.1 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of D-eco.co.za main page is 1.2 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. 35% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 16.6 kB

  • Original 21.3 kB
  • After minification 18.5 kB
  • After compression 4.7 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 2.8 kB, which is 13% 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 16.6 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 45.7 kB

  • Original 1.1 MB
  • After minification 1.1 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. D Eco images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 2.5 kB

  • Original 62.7 kB
  • After minification 62.7 kB
  • After compression 60.2 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

-32%

Potential reduce by 2.0 kB

  • Original 6.4 kB
  • After minification 6.2 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. D-eco.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 2.0 kB or 32% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 21 (46%)

Requests Now

46

After Optimization

25

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 46 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of D Eco. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 10 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

d-eco.co.za

d-eco.co.za

787 ms

layout2.css

layout2.css

253 ms

sIFR-screen.css

sIFR-screen.css

492 ms

swfobject.js

swfobject.js

498 ms

flashbanner.js

flashbanner.js

500 ms

sifr.js

sifr.js

501 ms

validate.js

validate.js

503 ms

smoothscroll.js

smoothscroll.js

516 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

9 ms

jquery.easing.1.3.js

jquery.easing.1.3.js

111 ms

jquery.kwicks-1.5.1.js

jquery.kwicks-1.5.1.js

734 ms

jquery.fancybox-1.3.4.pack.js

jquery.fancybox-1.3.4.pack.js

744 ms

jquery.mousewheel-3.0.4.pack.js

jquery.mousewheel-3.0.4.pack.js

746 ms

jquery.fancybox-1.3.4.css

jquery.fancybox-1.3.4.css

746 ms

ga.js

ga.js

61 ms

chocedge.png

chocedge.png

255 ms

chocedge2.png

chocedge2.png

495 ms

list1.gif

list1.gif

257 ms

line.png

line.png

264 ms

addytextbg.png

addytextbg.png

495 ms

d-eco-logo-tone.png

d-eco-logo-tone.png

260 ms

button.png

button.png

508 ms

frametop.gif

frametop.gif

509 ms

framemid.gif

framemid.gif

511 ms

porty-huntahome.jpg

porty-huntahome.jpg

1030 ms

frametopandbot2.gif

frametopandbot2.gif

746 ms

porty-medvacancies.jpg

porty-medvacancies.jpg

987 ms

porty-rcsnew1.jpg

porty-rcsnew1.jpg

1251 ms

porty-anniemercer1.jpg

porty-anniemercer1.jpg

1235 ms

porty-snugglybum1.jpg

porty-snugglybum1.jpg

1246 ms

porty-abasa1.jpg

porty-abasa1.jpg

1239 ms

porty-ksa1.jpg

porty-ksa1.jpg

1483 ms

porty-pomegranate1.jpg

porty-pomegranate1.jpg

1292 ms

porty-imagine1.jpg

porty-imagine1.jpg

1725 ms

porty-quality1.jpg

porty-quality1.jpg

1499 ms

porty-ddi1.jpg

porty-ddi1.jpg

1741 ms

porty-fairpacker1.jpg

porty-fairpacker1.jpg

1750 ms

porty-kirsty1.jpg

porty-kirsty1.jpg

1555 ms

porty-convent1.jpg

porty-convent1.jpg

1977 ms

porty-studiotaw1.jpg

porty-studiotaw1.jpg

1754 ms

framebot.gif

framebot.gif

1819 ms

footer-tile.png

footer-tile.png

1975 ms

mast-bg-tile.png

mast-bg-tile.png

1995 ms

d-eco-logo-strip.jpg

d-eco-logo-strip.jpg

2006 ms

living_off.gif

living_off.gif

2003 ms

mast-bg.png

mast-bg.png

2079 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

12 ms

sIFR-print.css

sIFR-print.css

255 ms

Accessibility Review

d-eco.co.za accessibility score

73

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

Low

No form fields have multiple labels

High

Form elements do not have associated labels

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

d-eco.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

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

d-eco.co.za SEO score

62

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

High

robots.txt is not valid

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

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

d-eco.co.za

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of D Eco. 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: