Report Summary

  • 100

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    97% of other websites

  • 78

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 46% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 58

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    20% of websites

Page Load Speed

32.2 sec in total

First Response

2.9 sec

Resources Loaded

28.3 sec

Page Rendered

930 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Greenbusinessguide.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 2.9 sec and then it took 29.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 95% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

greenbusinessguide.co.za performance score

100

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value0.8 s

100/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value0.8 s

100/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value1.3 s

100/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value0.8 s

100/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.greenbusinessguide.co.za

2903 ms

style.css

464 ms

featured_slider.css

590 ms

tabs.css

591 ms

responsive.css

583 ms

Our browser made a total of 271 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 94% of them (255 requests) were addressed to the original Greenbusinessguide.co.za, 1% (3 requests) were made to S.gravatar.com and 1% (3 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (8.2 sec) belongs to the original domain Greenbusinessguide.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.5 MB (32%)

Content Size

4.8 MB

After Optimization

3.3 MB

In fact, the total size of Greenbusinessguide.co.za main page is 4.8 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. 75% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Images take 3.6 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 157.9 kB

  • Original 182.3 kB
  • After minification 177.1 kB
  • After compression 24.4 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 157.9 kB or 87% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-17%

Potential reduce by 600.2 kB

  • Original 3.6 MB
  • After minification 3.0 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. Obviously, Greenbusinessguide needs image optimization as it can save up to 600.2 kB or 17% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-69%

Potential reduce by 504.9 kB

  • Original 732.7 kB
  • After minification 708.3 kB
  • After compression 227.8 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 504.9 kB or 69% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 284.0 kB

  • Original 355.6 kB
  • After minification 327.8 kB
  • After compression 71.6 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. Greenbusinessguide.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 284.0 kB or 80% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 103 (38%)

Requests Now

270

After Optimization

167

The browser has sent 270 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Greenbusinessguide. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 55 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 33 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

greenbusinessguide.co.za accessibility score

78

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.

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

Best Practices

greenbusinessguide.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

SEO Factors

greenbusinessguide.co.za SEO score

58

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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