Report Summary

  • 23

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    41% of other websites

  • 80

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 49% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 77

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    36% of websites

homepc.co.za

Home PC | HomePC - Online computer and gaming shop - Fixing IT bit by bit

Page Load Speed

40.7 sec in total

First Response

96 ms

Resources Loaded

39.9 sec

Page Rendered

752 ms

homepc.co.za screenshot

About Website

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

Home PC is a Computer retail shop that repairs and sells IT related products and services to the consumer. - HomePC - Fixing IT bit by bit

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Key Findings

We analyzed Homepc.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 96 ms and then it took 40.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is an excellent result, as only a small number of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

homepc.co.za performance score

23

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.4 s

17/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.8 s

3/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value18.8 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,550 ms

13/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.003

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value12.6 s

14/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

homepc.co.za

96 ms

homepc.co.za

2008 ms

bootstrap-light.min.css

790 ms

base.min.css

786 ms

woo-widget-price-filter.min.css

780 ms

Our browser made a total of 287 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 98% of them (281 requests) were addressed to the original Homepc.co.za, 1% (2 requests) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com and 0% (1 request) were made to Stats.wp.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (6.8 sec) belongs to the original domain Homepc.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 339.4 kB (11%)

Content Size

3.0 MB

After Optimization

2.7 MB

In fact, the total size of Homepc.co.za main page is 3.0 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 2.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 240.0 kB

  • Original 275.8 kB
  • After minification 275.7 kB
  • After compression 35.8 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. 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 240.0 kB or 87% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 93.5 kB

  • Original 2.4 MB
  • After minification 2.3 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. Home PC images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 2.3 kB

  • Original 256.1 kB
  • After minification 255.0 kB
  • After compression 253.8 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.

CSS Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 3.6 kB

  • Original 81.4 kB
  • After minification 79.4 kB
  • After compression 77.8 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. Homepc.co.za has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 157 (56%)

Requests Now

282

After Optimization

125

The browser has sent 282 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Home PC. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 73 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 70 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

homepc.co.za accessibility score

80

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

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

homepc.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

SEO Factors

homepc.co.za SEO score

77

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

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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 Homepc.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 Homepc.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 Home PC. 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: