Report Summary

  • 44

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    63% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 94

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    90% of websites

efax.co.za

Online Fax - Send & Receive Faxes by Email or Online with eFax

Page Load Speed

1.8 sec in total

First Response

159 ms

Resources Loaded

1.3 sec

Page Rendered

310 ms

efax.co.za screenshot

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Efax.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 159 ms and then it took 1.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 35% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

efax.co.za performance score

44

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.3 s

18/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.8 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.3 s

76/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value560 ms

53/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.041

99/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value9.2 s

32/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

efax.co.za

159 ms

www.efax.eu

63 ms

265 ms

239 ms

cookieblocker.min.css

22 ms

Our browser made a total of 53 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Efax.co.za, 58% (31 requests) were made to Ww2.efax.com and 17% (9 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (281 ms) relates to the external source Ww2.efax.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 115.7 kB (19%)

Content Size

606.4 kB

After Optimization

490.6 kB

In fact, the total size of Efax.co.za main page is 606.4 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. 40% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 225.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 98.0 kB

  • Original 121.1 kB
  • After minification 116.7 kB
  • After compression 23.0 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 98.0 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 206.2 kB
  • After minification 206.2 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. EFax images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 1.2 kB

  • Original 225.1 kB
  • After minification 225.1 kB
  • After compression 223.9 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

-31%

Potential reduce by 16.5 kB

  • Original 54.0 kB
  • After minification 37.6 kB
  • After compression 37.5 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. Efax.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 16.5 kB or 31% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 25 (69%)

Requests Now

36

After Optimization

11

The browser has sent 36 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of EFax. 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 13 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

efax.co.za accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

efax.co.za best practices score

75

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

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

efax.co.za SEO score

94

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

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