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Report Summary

  • 28

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    47% of other websites

  • 75

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 41% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 89

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    66% of websites

ecmba.org.za

East Cape Master Builders Association | Allied Industries Association

Page Load Speed

7.3 sec in total

First Response

1 sec

Resources Loaded

6 sec

Page Rendered

201 ms

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About Website

Welcome to ecmba.org.za homepage info - get ready to check Ecmba best content for South Africa right away, or after learning these important things about ecmba.org.za

The East Cape Master Builders and Allied Industries Association celebrates over 100 years of service to members and the building industry.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Ecmba.org.za page load time and found that the first response time was 1 sec and then it took 6.2 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

ecmba.org.za performance score

28

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.6 s

5/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.4 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value10.8 s

7/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value440 ms

64/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.33

34/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value10.6 s

23/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

ecmba.org.za

1029 ms

ecmba.org.za

1069 ms

js

79 ms

combine.php

1297 ms

combine.php

1303 ms

Our browser made a total of 62 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 73% of them (45 requests) were addressed to the original Ecmba.org.za, 10% (6 requests) were made to Use.typekit.net and 6% (4 requests) were made to Google.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.4 sec) belongs to the original domain Ecmba.org.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 298.0 kB (15%)

Content Size

2.0 MB

After Optimization

1.7 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Ecmba.org.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. 45% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 34.2 kB

  • Original 44.1 kB
  • After minification 44.1 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. 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 34.2 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 48.7 kB

  • Original 1.4 MB
  • After minification 1.3 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. Ecmba images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-34%

Potential reduce by 211.7 kB

  • Original 626.7 kB
  • After minification 626.7 kB
  • After compression 414.9 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 211.7 kB or 34% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-32%

Potential reduce by 3.3 kB

  • Original 10.4 kB
  • After minification 10.4 kB
  • After compression 7.1 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. Ecmba.org.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 3.3 kB or 32% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 24 (44%)

Requests Now

55

After Optimization

31

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 55 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Ecmba. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 14 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

ecmba.org.za

ecmba.org.za

1029 ms

ecmba.org.za

ecmba.org.za

1069 ms

js

js

79 ms

combine.php

combine.php

1297 ms

combine.php

combine.php

1303 ms

bms7gpg.css

bms7gpg.css

155 ms

gpt.js

gpt.js

109 ms

jquery-3.3.1.min.js

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1559 ms

blazy.min.js

blazy.min.js

1337 ms

main.js

main.js

1339 ms

smoothscroll.js

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1338 ms

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jquery.fancybox.js

1816 ms

pushy.js

pushy.js

1571 ms

jquery.smartmenus.js

jquery.smartmenus.js

1572 ms

owl.carousel.min.js

owl.carousel.min.js

1580 ms

pubads_impl.js

pubads_impl.js

26 ms

ppub_config

ppub_config

419 ms

p.css

p.css

93 ms

logo.svg

logo.svg

1588 ms

home.png

home.png

1579 ms

menu-button.png

menu-button.png

1582 ms

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1583 ms

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1599 ms

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1832 ms

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1845 ms

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1844 ms

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1849 ms

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1855 ms

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1869 ms

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2093 ms

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2109 ms

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2111 ms

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2367 ms

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2379 ms

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2134 ms

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2368 ms

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2371 ms

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2374 ms

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55 ms

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1345 ms

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45 ms

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48 ms

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27 ms

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23 ms

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2008 ms

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1998 ms

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2003 ms

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2020 ms

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2261 ms

Accessibility Review

ecmba.org.za accessibility score

75

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

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.

Best Practices

ecmba.org.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

ecmba.org.za SEO score

89

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

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

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

ecmba.org.za

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