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Report Summary

  • 38

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    57% of other websites

  • 91

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 76% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    74% of websites

me.da.org.za

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Page Load Speed

1.7 sec in total

First Response

261 ms

Resources Loaded

1.3 sec

Page Rendered

198 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Me.da.org.za page load time and found that the first response time was 261 ms and then it took 1.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 30% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

me.da.org.za performance score

38

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.2 s

78/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.7 s

8/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.1 s

92/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,730 ms

10/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.098

90/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value9.7 s

29/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

me.da.org.za

261 ms

me.da.org.za

693 ms

bootstrap.min.css

63 ms

9441e4a6.js

83 ms

css

53 ms

Our browser made a total of 18 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 22% of them (4 requests) were addressed to the original Me.da.org.za, 22% (4 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 11% (2 requests) were made to Use.fortawesome.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (693 ms) belongs to the original domain Me.da.org.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 49.9 kB (19%)

Content Size

265.4 kB

After Optimization

215.5 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Me.da.org.za main page is 265.4 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. 20% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 179.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 49.9 kB

  • Original 62.4 kB
  • After minification 61.6 kB
  • After compression 12.5 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 49.9 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 179.3 kB
  • After minification 179.3 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. Me Da images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 5 B

  • Original 3.9 kB
  • After minification 3.9 kB
  • After compression 3.9 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

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 19.7 kB
  • After minification 19.7 kB
  • After compression 19.7 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. Me.da.org.za has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 7 (64%)

Requests Now

11

After Optimization

4

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 11 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Me Da. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 5 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

me.da.org.za

me.da.org.za

261 ms

me.da.org.za

me.da.org.za

693 ms

bootstrap.min.css

bootstrap.min.css

63 ms

9441e4a6.js

9441e4a6.js

83 ms

css

css

53 ms

bundle.f8ff0e52.css

bundle.f8ff0e52.css

11 ms

bundle.8a8307c8.js

bundle.8a8307c8.js

53 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

165 ms

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WhatsApp-Image-2024-06-04-at-15.13.55-1024x1024.jpeg

133 ms

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insight.min.js

124 ms

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27 ms

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31 ms

woff.css

woff.css

96 ms

insight.old.min.js

insight.old.min.js

22 ms

insight_tag_errors.gif

insight_tag_errors.gif

64 ms

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1 ms

Accessibility Review

me.da.org.za accessibility score

91

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.

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

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

me.da.org.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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

me.da.org.za SEO score

92

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

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 Me.da.org.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 Me.da.org.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

me.da.org.za

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