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Report Summary

  • 86

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    89% of other websites

  • 85

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 58% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 75

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    32% of websites

gordons.co.za

Gordon's Productions - Manufactures its own products, and has its own national sales, merchandising and distribution force.

Page Load Speed

4.4 sec in total

First Response

1.5 sec

Resources Loaded

2.7 sec

Page Rendered

153 ms

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About Website

Welcome to gordons.co.za homepage info - get ready to check Gordon S best content for South Africa right away, or after learning these important things about gordons.co.za

We supply Contact Self Adhesive Paper, Wondercover, Magic Covers, Industrial Paper Crepe and Branded Paper Products like Serviettes, Coasters, Paper Plates, Gift wrap, Paper Bags and much much more.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Gordons.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 1.5 sec and then it took 2.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 55% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

gordons.co.za performance score

86

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.1 s

99/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.5 s

62/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value2.8 s

96/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value190 ms

91/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.011

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value4.2 s

85/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

gordons.co.za

1528 ms

js

60 ms

background.jpg

471 ms

left_border.jpg

243 ms

left_header.jpg

929 ms

Our browser made a total of 11 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 91% of them (10 requests) were addressed to the original Gordons.co.za, 9% (1 request) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.5 sec) belongs to the original domain Gordons.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 24.4 kB (17%)

Content Size

142.8 kB

After Optimization

118.3 kB

  • HTML
  • Images

In fact, the total size of Gordons.co.za main page is 142.8 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 5% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 128.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 10.7 kB

  • Original 14.1 kB
  • After minification 13.9 kB
  • After compression 3.5 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 10.7 kB or 75% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-11%

Potential reduce by 13.8 kB

  • Original 128.6 kB
  • After minification 114.9 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. Obviously, Gordon S needs image optimization as it can save up to 13.8 kB or 11% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

10

After Optimization

10

  • Images
  • JavaScript

The browser has sent 10 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Gordon S. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Network Requests Diagram

gordons.co.za

gordons.co.za

1528 ms

js

js

60 ms

background.jpg

background.jpg

471 ms

left_border.jpg

left_border.jpg

243 ms

left_header.jpg

left_header.jpg

929 ms

header_1.jpg

header_1.jpg

969 ms

header_2.jpg

header_2.jpg

1206 ms

top_buttons.jpg

top_buttons.jpg

738 ms

right_border.jpg

right_border.jpg

474 ms

text_spacer.jpg

text_spacer.jpg

504 ms

seperator.jpg

seperator.jpg

715 ms

Accessibility Review

gordons.co.za accessibility score

85

Accessibility Issues

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Lists do not contain only <li> elements and script supporting elements (<script> and <template>).

Best Practices

gordons.co.za best practices score

67

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

SEO Factors

gordons.co.za SEO score

75

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    N/A

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Gordons.co.za can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Gordons.co.za main page’s claimed encoding is . Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

gordons.co.za

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