Report Summary

  • 19

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    36% of other websites

  • 81

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 51% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 81

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    42% of websites

genlife.co.za

Genlife Financial Services - Group Funeral Insurance

Page Load Speed

4.3 sec in total

First Response

199 ms

Resources Loaded

3.2 sec

Page Rendered

881 ms

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About Website

Click here to check amazing Genlife content for Russia. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about genlife.co.za

We are leaders in Group Funeral Insurance and apply our knowledge of the funeral industry to the benefit of our client base countrywide. Our company, supported by our driven and committed team, unders...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Genlife.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 199 ms and then it took 4.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 65% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

genlife.co.za performance score

19

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.3 s

7/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.7 s

16/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value19.8 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value10,490 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.06

98/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value40.0 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

genlife.co.za

199 ms

www.genlife.co.za

617 ms

jquery.min.js

19 ms

popper.min.js

49 ms

bootstrap.min.css

611 ms

Our browser made a total of 94 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 68% of them (64 requests) were addressed to the original Genlife.co.za, 12% (11 requests) were made to Youtube.com and 7% (7 requests) were made to Jnn-pa.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.4 sec) belongs to the original domain Genlife.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 2.4 MB (47%)

Content Size

5.2 MB

After Optimization

2.8 MB

In fact, the total size of Genlife.co.za main page is 5.2 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. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 3.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 89.6 kB

  • Original 107.5 kB
  • After minification 95.7 kB
  • After compression 17.8 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 11.8 kB, which is 11% 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 89.6 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 60.6 kB

  • Original 1.5 MB
  • After minification 1.4 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. Genlife images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-63%

Potential reduce by 2.1 MB

  • Original 3.3 MB
  • After minification 3.3 MB
  • After compression 1.2 MB

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 2.1 MB or 63% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-66%

Potential reduce by 179.1 kB

  • Original 270.5 kB
  • After minification 261.5 kB
  • After compression 91.3 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. Genlife.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 179.1 kB or 66% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 18 (21%)

Requests Now

87

After Optimization

69

The browser has sent 87 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Genlife. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 15 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

genlife.co.za accessibility score

81

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

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

genlife.co.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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

genlife.co.za SEO score

81

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

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 Genlife.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 Genlife.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 description is not detected on the main page of Genlife. 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: