Report Summary

  • 40

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    59% of other websites

  • 51

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 21% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 85

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    55% of websites

designasign.co.za

Design A Sign | Design A Sign - graphic sign board billboard flyers advertisements business cards

Page Load Speed

18 sec in total

First Response

6 sec

Resources Loaded

11.2 sec

Page Rendered

756 ms

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About Website

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We are a privately owned graphical & signing solutions company who provide high quality branding products to not only the Greater Sekhukhune District in Mpumalanga, but far beyond. ​Our Graphic Design...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Designasign.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 6 sec and then it took 12 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

designasign.co.za performance score

40

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.1 s

47/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.6 s

3/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value17.3 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value360 ms

72/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.14

79/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value15.6 s

6/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

designasign.co.za

5962 ms

bootstrap.min.css

793 ms

stylesheet_combined_6e75eea57a9de0222f909356aadf8aaf.css

780 ms

img-74df836f2d5137d74c87e229ae99f211

1011 ms

img-1e7f7e0b05719dae11fdfcfdedddc593

1012 ms

Our browser made a total of 119 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 97% of them (116 requests) were addressed to the original Designasign.co.za, 1% (1 request) were made to Google.com and 1% (1 request) were made to Maps.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (6 sec) belongs to the original domain Designasign.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 289.0 kB (28%)

Content Size

1.0 MB

After Optimization

733.5 kB

In fact, the total size of Designasign.co.za main page is 1.0 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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 602.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 60.5 kB

  • Original 70.4 kB
  • After minification 60.2 kB
  • After compression 9.9 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 14% 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 60.5 kB or 86% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 397 B

  • Original 299.5 kB
  • After minification 299.1 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. Design A Sign images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-37%

Potential reduce by 222.7 kB

  • Original 602.9 kB
  • After minification 545.0 kB
  • After compression 380.3 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 222.7 kB or 37% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-11%

Potential reduce by 5.4 kB

  • Original 49.7 kB
  • After minification 49.7 kB
  • After compression 44.3 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. Designasign.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 5.4 kB or 11% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 18 (75%)

Requests Now

24

After Optimization

6

The browser has sent 24 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Design A Sign. 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 as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

designasign.co.za accessibility score

51

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

High

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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.

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

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

designasign.co.za best practices score

83

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

SEO Factors

designasign.co.za SEO score

85

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

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

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 Designasign.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 Designasign.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 description is not detected on the main page of Design A Sign. 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: