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Report Summary

  • 38

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    57% of other websites

  • 89

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 71% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    94% of websites

durocast.co.za

Welcome to Durocast Specialised Refractory Products

Page Load Speed

10.9 sec in total

First Response

789 ms

Resources Loaded

9.7 sec

Page Rendered

417 ms

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About Website

Welcome to durocast.co.za homepage info - get ready to check Durocast best content right away, or after learning these important things about durocast.co.za

Durocast | Refractory products supplier South Africa, steel industry, foundry industry, copper industry, glass industry, cement industry, chemical industry

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Key Findings

We analyzed Durocast.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 789 ms and then it took 10.2 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

durocast.co.za performance score

38

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.7 s

5/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.9 s

14/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value11.2 s

5/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value650 ms

46/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.009

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value7.6 s

46/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

durocast.co.za

789 ms

home

5389 ms

animate.min.css

256 ms

sppagebuilder.css

511 ms

settings.css

726 ms

Our browser made a total of 51 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Durocast.co.za, 90% (46 requests) were made to Durocastsa.co.za and 4% (2 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (5.4 sec) relates to the external source Durocastsa.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 73.2 kB (4%)

Content Size

2.0 MB

After Optimization

1.9 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Durocast.co.za main page is 2.0 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. 50% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.6 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 61.5 kB

  • Original 72.6 kB
  • After minification 70.6 kB
  • After compression 11.1 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 61.5 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 675 B

  • Original 1.6 MB
  • After minification 1.6 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. Durocast images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 2.5 kB

  • Original 182.6 kB
  • After minification 182.6 kB
  • After compression 180.0 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 8.6 kB

  • Original 119.2 kB
  • After minification 119.2 kB
  • After compression 110.6 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. Durocast.co.za has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 27 (57%)

Requests Now

47

After Optimization

20

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 47 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Durocast. 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 11 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

durocast.co.za

durocast.co.za

789 ms

home

home

5389 ms

animate.min.css

animate.min.css

256 ms

sppagebuilder.css

sppagebuilder.css

511 ms

settings.css

settings.css

726 ms

dynamic-captions.css

dynamic-captions.css

730 ms

static-captions.css

static-captions.css

741 ms

magnific-popup.css

magnific-popup.css

736 ms

bootstrap.min.css

bootstrap.min.css

981 ms

font-awesome.min.css

font-awesome.min.css

766 ms

legacy.css

legacy.css

974 ms

template.css

template.css

1460 ms

preset1.css

preset1.css

999 ms

core.js

core.js

1007 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

1268 ms

jquery-noconflict.js

jquery-noconflict.js

1215 ms

jquery-migrate.min.js

jquery-migrate.min.js

1228 ms

jquery.parallax-1.1.3.js

jquery.parallax-1.1.3.js

1245 ms

sppagebuilder.js

sppagebuilder.js

1258 ms

jquery.themepunch.tools.min.js

jquery.themepunch.tools.min.js

1704 ms

jquery.themepunch.revolution.min.js

jquery.themepunch.revolution.min.js

1510 ms

jquery.magnific-popup.min.js

jquery.magnific-popup.min.js

1510 ms

bootstrap.min.js

bootstrap.min.js

1511 ms

modernizr.js

modernizr.js

1517 ms

SmoothScroll.js

SmoothScroll.js

1702 ms

jquery.easing.min.js

jquery.easing.min.js

1765 ms

jquery.nav.js

jquery.nav.js

1765 ms

main.js

main.js

1770 ms

js

js

57 ms

logo.png

logo.png

251 ms

transparent.png

transparent.png

291 ms

Banner.jpg

Banner.jpg

1022 ms

button.png

button.png

244 ms

hello-header.jpg

hello-header.jpg

305 ms

read-more-button.jpg

read-more-button.jpg

292 ms

about-image.jpg

about-image.jpg

489 ms

industries.jpg

industries.jpg

996 ms

latest-news-header.jpg

latest-news-header.jpg

534 ms

heritage-day-Durocast-2022.jpg

heritage-day-Durocast-2022.jpg

1509 ms

sprintime-hope-Durocast-2022.jpg

sprintime-hope-Durocast-2022.jpg

1766 ms

womens-day-Durocast-2022.jpg

womens-day-Durocast-2022.jpg

1452 ms

durocast-Durotherm-64L--Durotherm-85L-product-intro-image.jpg

durocast-Durotherm-64L--Durotherm-85L-product-intro-image.jpg

1020 ms

get-in-touch-header.png

get-in-touch-header.png

1246 ms

js

js

103 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

99 ms

Pe-icon-7-stroke.woff

Pe-icon-7-stroke.woff

1426 ms

get-in-touch-background.jpg

get-in-touch-background.jpg

1088 ms

small_left.png

small_left.png

1310 ms

small_right.png

small_right.png

1331 ms

fontawesome-webfont.woff

fontawesome-webfont.woff

1528 ms

collect

collect

12 ms

Accessibility Review

durocast.co.za accessibility score

89

Accessibility Issues

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

[id] attributes on active, focusable elements are not unique

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

durocast.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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

durocast.co.za SEO score

100

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

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

durocast.co.za

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