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Report Summary

  • 29

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    49% of other websites

  • 77

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 44% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    74% of websites

generaltire.co.za

The Off-Road Specialist - SUV, 4x4, Car & Van Tyres for Adventures | General Tire

Page Load Speed

5.1 sec in total

First Response

493 ms

Resources Loaded

4.2 sec

Page Rendered

400 ms

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About Website

Visit generaltire.co.za now to see the best up-to-date General Tire content and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about generaltire.co.za

With more than 100 years of experience in the tyre industry, General Tire offers car, van, SUV and 4x4 tyres for your everyday adventures.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Generaltire.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 493 ms and then it took 4.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 70% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

generaltire.co.za performance score

29

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.4 s

69/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.8 s

15/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.2 s

13/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value720 ms

41/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.393

26/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value13.6 s

11/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.generaltire.co.za

493 ms

car

643 ms

gtm.js

655 ms

picturefill.min.js

18 ms

generalTire-200af0fa44.css

182 ms

Our browser made a total of 36 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 58% of them (21 requests) were addressed to the original Generaltire.co.za, 22% (8 requests) were made to Blobs.generaltire-tyres.com and 6% (2 requests) were made to Google.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.2 sec) relates to the external source Blobs.generaltire-tyres.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 38.7 kB (57%)

Content Size

68.2 kB

After Optimization

29.5 kB

  • HTML
  • JavaScript

In fact, the total size of Generaltire.co.za main page is 68.2 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. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. HTML takes 45.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 38.5 kB

  • Original 45.2 kB
  • After minification 34.2 kB
  • After compression 6.7 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 11.0 kB, which is 24% of the original size. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 38.5 kB or 85% of the original size.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 181 B

  • Original 23.0 kB
  • After minification 23.0 kB
  • After compression 22.8 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.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 7 (24%)

Requests Now

29

After Optimization

22

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 29 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of General Tire. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 8 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

www.generaltire.co.za

www.generaltire.co.za

493 ms

car

car

643 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

655 ms

picturefill.min.js

picturefill.min.js

18 ms

generalTire-200af0fa44.css

generalTire-200af0fa44.css

182 ms

main.1e096366d45f6889a0e2.js

main.1e096366d45f6889a0e2.js

667 ms

superscriptproductnames.js

superscriptproductnames.js

510 ms

logo_generaltire_print-dd1e61e4b8.svg

logo_generaltire_print-dd1e61e4b8.svg

522 ms

logo_generaltire-3ea196f5ca.svg

logo_generaltire-3ea196f5ca.svg

626 ms

best-all-terrain-tyre.jpg

best-all-terrain-tyre.jpg

1517 ms

vision-zero-stage.jpg

vision-zero-stage.jpg

1722 ms

stage-image-altimax-one-one-s.png

stage-image-altimax-one-one-s.png

2157 ms

stage-image-grabber-at3.jpg

stage-image-grabber-at3.jpg

2154 ms

stage-image-grabber-x3.jpg

stage-image-grabber-x3.jpg

2159 ms

bannerteaser-brand.jpg

bannerteaser-brand.jpg

1722 ms

bannerteaser-download.jpg

bannerteaser-download.jpg

1722 ms

teaser-image-news.jpg

teaser-image-news.jpg

1723 ms

header-bg-c47259a972.png

header-bg-c47259a972.png

1305 ms

teaser-bg-home-c5a7363d48.jpg

teaser-bg-home-c5a7363d48.jpg

1115 ms

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719 ms

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793 ms

roboto-v18-vietnamese_greek-ext_greek_cyrillic_cyrillic-ext_latin_latin-ext-regular-35b07eb2f8.woff

roboto-v18-vietnamese_greek-ext_greek_cyrillic_cyrillic-ext_latin_latin-ext-regular-35b07eb2f8.woff

1162 ms

roboto-v18-vietnamese_greek-ext_greek_cyrillic_cyrillic-ext_latin_latin-ext-300-c73eb1ceba.woff

roboto-v18-vietnamese_greek-ext_greek_cyrillic_cyrillic-ext_latin_latin-ext-300-c73eb1ceba.woff

1161 ms

roboto-v18-vietnamese_greek-ext_greek_cyrillic_cyrillic-ext_latin_latin-ext-700-50d75e48e0.woff

roboto-v18-vietnamese_greek-ext_greek_cyrillic_cyrillic-ext_latin_latin-ext-700-50d75e48e0.woff

1162 ms

ContinentalIcon-fea7dd7ed3.woff

ContinentalIcon-fea7dd7ed3.woff

971 ms

3196D7_2_0-a5c6bee027.woff

3196D7_2_0-a5c6bee027.woff

1278 ms

conversion_async.js

conversion_async.js

623 ms

iframe_api

iframe_api

718 ms

siteselected

siteselected

548 ms

204 ms

www-widgetapi.js

www-widgetapi.js

28 ms

17 ms

print-a567512a41.css

print-a567512a41.css

97 ms

Accessibility Review

generaltire.co.za accessibility score

77

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best practices

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

generaltire.co.za best practices score

83

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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

generaltire.co.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

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

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

generaltire.co.za

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