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Report Summary

  • 4

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    20% of other websites

  • 96

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 88% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    94% of websites

freestock.co.za

Freestock - Your Solution for Prime and B-Grade Steel Products

Page Load Speed

9.7 sec in total

First Response

1.5 sec

Resources Loaded

7 sec

Page Rendered

1.2 sec

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About Website

Click here to check amazing Freestock content. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about freestock.co.za

Freestock Heidelberg, with over 7 years in the steel industry, we offer steel products like Coil & Slit Coil, IBR Roof Sheets, Tubing & Angles

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Key Findings

We analyzed Freestock.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 1.5 sec and then it took 8.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 85% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

freestock.co.za performance score

4

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.0 s

22/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value12.6 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value11.5 s

5/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value4,220 ms

1/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.832

4/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value16.9 s

5/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

freestock.co.za

1521 ms

wpo-minify-header-a73616a8.min.css

1914 ms

wpo-minify-header-d8035312.min.css

1918 ms

wpo-minify-header-f3850c63.min.js

1929 ms

js

69 ms

Our browser made a total of 45 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 76% of them (34 requests) were addressed to the original Freestock.co.za, 7% (3 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com and 7% (3 requests) were made to Pagead2.googlesyndication.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (3.5 sec) belongs to the original domain Freestock.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 109.1 kB (4%)

Content Size

2.9 MB

After Optimization

2.8 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Freestock.co.za main page is 2.9 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 2.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 104.1 kB

  • Original 127.4 kB
  • After minification 123.0 kB
  • After compression 23.3 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 104.1 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 4.5 kB

  • Original 2.2 MB
  • After minification 2.2 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. Freestock images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 309 B

  • Original 486.8 kB
  • After minification 486.8 kB
  • After compression 486.5 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 226 B

  • Original 54.8 kB
  • After minification 54.8 kB
  • After compression 54.5 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. Freestock.co.za has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 16 (36%)

Requests Now

44

After Optimization

28

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 44 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Freestock. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 13 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

freestock.co.za

freestock.co.za

1521 ms

wpo-minify-header-a73616a8.min.css

wpo-minify-header-a73616a8.min.css

1914 ms

wpo-minify-header-d8035312.min.css

wpo-minify-header-d8035312.min.css

1918 ms

wpo-minify-header-f3850c63.min.js

wpo-minify-header-f3850c63.min.js

1929 ms

js

js

69 ms

adsbygoogle.js

adsbygoogle.js

68 ms

custom-widget-icon-list.min.css

custom-widget-icon-list.min.css

1596 ms

custom-pro-widget-nav-menu.min.css

custom-pro-widget-nav-menu.min.css

1595 ms

wpo-minify-footer-3c3b0d0b.min.js

wpo-minify-footer-3c3b0d0b.min.js

1517 ms

api.js

api.js

43 ms

wpo-minify-footer-cd335cff.min.js

wpo-minify-footer-cd335cff.min.js

2441 ms

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wpo-minify-footer-07c1197e.min.js

2040 ms

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wpo-minify-footer-3aae165c.min.js

2273 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

116 ms

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385 ms

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382 ms

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385 ms

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765 ms

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770 ms

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768 ms

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2424 ms

Freestock-Roofing-2.jpg

Freestock-Roofing-2.jpg

2599 ms

Freestock-Lipped-Channels.jpg

Freestock-Lipped-Channels.jpg

3065 ms

IMG_5059-scaled.jpg

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2699 ms

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2343 ms

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2838 ms

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2728 ms

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2822 ms

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2982 ms

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3083 ms

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3111 ms

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3220 ms

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3238 ms

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3366 ms

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3458 ms

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3468 ms

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FREESTOCK-LOGO-01-1024x682.png

3500 ms

show_ads_impl.js

show_ads_impl.js

217 ms

zrt_lookup.html

zrt_lookup.html

111 ms

js

js

46 ms

embed

embed

313 ms

rum.js

rum.js

35 ms

ads

ads

28 ms

js

js

43 ms

wpo-minify-header-8bd51347.min.css

wpo-minify-header-8bd51347.min.css

385 ms

Accessibility Review

freestock.co.za accessibility score

96

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.

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

freestock.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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

freestock.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 Freestock.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 Freestock.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

freestock.co.za

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of Freestock. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: