Report Summary

  • 2

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    20% of other websites

  • 75

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 41% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 76

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    35% of websites

domains.co.za

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Page Load Speed

7.1 sec in total

First Response

473 ms

Resources Loaded

5.1 sec

Page Rendered

1.5 sec

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Key Findings

We analyzed Domains.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 473 ms and then it took 6.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 80% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

domains.co.za performance score

2

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.7 s

2/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value11.2 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value14.4 s

1/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,420 ms

5/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value1.139

1/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value19.7 s

2/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

domains.co.za

473 ms

www.domains.co.za

1125 ms

gtm.js

112 ms

js

220 ms

inter.css

262 ms

Our browser made a total of 74 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 69% of them (51 requests) were addressed to the original Domains.co.za, 11% (8 requests) were made to Use.typekit.net and 4% (3 requests) were made to Gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.7 sec) belongs to the original domain Domains.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 166.3 kB (13%)

Content Size

1.3 MB

After Optimization

1.1 MB

In fact, the total size of Domains.co.za main page is 1.3 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. 45% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 751.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 74.3 kB

  • Original 89.1 kB
  • After minification 71.6 kB
  • After compression 14.8 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 17.5 kB, which is 20% 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 74.3 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-11%

Potential reduce by 83.3 kB

  • Original 751.4 kB
  • After minification 668.1 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. Obviously, Domains needs image optimization as it can save up to 83.3 kB or 11% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 1.3 kB

  • Original 325.5 kB
  • After minification 325.5 kB
  • After compression 324.2 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

-7%

Potential reduce by 7.4 kB

  • Original 111.1 kB
  • After minification 111.0 kB
  • After compression 103.7 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. Domains.co.za has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 24 (40%)

Requests Now

60

After Optimization

36

The browser has sent 60 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Domains. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 11 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 9 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

domains.co.za accessibility score

75

Accessibility Issues

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

Elements with an ARIA [role] that require children to contain a specific [role] are missing some or all of those required children.

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

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

List items (<li>) are not contained within <ul> or <ol> parent elements.

Best Practices

domains.co.za best practices score

83

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

domains.co.za SEO score

76

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

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 Domains.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 Domains.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 Domains. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: