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Report Summary

  • 42

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    61% of other websites

  • 64

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 29% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 88

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    65% of websites

decksa.co.za

Decking | Pergolas | Balustrades | Gauteng South Africa

Page Load Speed

6.2 sec in total

First Response

746 ms

Resources Loaded

5.2 sec

Page Rendered

280 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Decksa.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 746 ms and then it took 5.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 75% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

decksa.co.za performance score

42

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.1 s

9/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.7 s

17/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value10.4 s

8/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value360 ms

72/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.127

82/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value11.3 s

19/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

decksa.co.za

746 ms

decksa.co.za

911 ms

bootstrap.min.css

2074 ms

bootstrap.min.css

36 ms

decksa.css

1660 ms

Our browser made a total of 27 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 63% of them (17 requests) were addressed to the original Decksa.co.za, 7% (2 requests) were made to Cdnjs.cloudflare.com and 7% (2 requests) were made to Connect.facebook.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.1 sec) belongs to the original domain Decksa.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 174.3 kB (18%)

Content Size

971.2 kB

After Optimization

796.9 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Decksa.co.za main page is 971.2 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. 35% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 733.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 19.8 kB

  • Original 26.1 kB
  • After minification 23.9 kB
  • After compression 6.3 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. 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 19.8 kB or 76% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 10.4 kB

  • Original 733.1 kB
  • After minification 722.7 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. Decksa images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-39%

Potential reduce by 29.1 kB

  • Original 74.7 kB
  • After minification 74.7 kB
  • After compression 45.7 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 29.1 kB or 39% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 115.0 kB

  • Original 137.2 kB
  • After minification 131.6 kB
  • After compression 22.2 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. Decksa.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 115.0 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 9 (41%)

Requests Now

22

After Optimization

13

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 22 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Decksa. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 7 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

decksa.co.za

decksa.co.za

746 ms

decksa.co.za

decksa.co.za

911 ms

bootstrap.min.css

bootstrap.min.css

2074 ms

bootstrap.min.css

bootstrap.min.css

36 ms

decksa.css

decksa.css

1660 ms

font-awesome.min.css

font-awesome.min.css

42 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

31 ms

bootstrap.min.js

bootstrap.min.js

1676 ms

jquery.matchHeight-min.js

jquery.matchHeight-min.js

1462 ms

js

js

74 ms

sdk.js

sdk.js

29 ms

DeckSA-logo.jpg

DeckSA-logo.jpg

475 ms

DeckSA-banner.jpg

DeckSA-banner.jpg

444 ms

portfolio.jpg

portfolio.jpg

458 ms

decking.jpg

decking.jpg

691 ms

pergolas.jpg

pergolas.jpg

672 ms

balustrades-new.jpg

balustrades-new.jpg

1137 ms

DeckSA-logo.png

DeckSA-logo.png

1139 ms

DeckSA-parallax.jpg

DeckSA-parallax.jpg

1268 ms

DeckSA-background.jpg

DeckSA-background.jpg

611 ms

sdk.js

sdk.js

48 ms

51 ms

Muli.woff

Muli.woff

742 ms

Centaur.woff

Centaur.woff

766 ms

fontawesome-webfont.woff

fontawesome-webfont.woff

37 ms

31 ms

28 ms

Accessibility Review

decksa.co.za accessibility score

64

Accessibility Issues

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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

decksa.co.za best practices score

75

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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

decksa.co.za SEO score

88

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

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

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

decksa.co.za

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