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Report Summary

  • 16

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    30% of other websites

  • 78

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 45% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    74% of websites

hychem.co.za

Superior Cleaning Chemicals & Products | HYCHEM Cleaning Chemicals

Page Load Speed

32.8 sec in total

First Response

4.7 sec

Resources Loaded

27.6 sec

Page Rendered

530 ms

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About Website

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

HYCHEM is a leading supplier of high quality cleaning chemicals and cleaning accessories into the Southern African market.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Hychem.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 4.7 sec and then it took 28.2 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

hychem.co.za performance score

16

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value8.7 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.7 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value23.1 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,820 ms

3/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value21.3 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.hychem.co.za

4686 ms

style.min.css

1248 ms

styles.css

986 ms

font-awesome.min.css

991 ms

bootstrap-front.css

995 ms

Our browser made a total of 121 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 95% of them (115 requests) were addressed to the original Hychem.co.za, 2% (3 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com and 1% (1 request) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (7.3 sec) belongs to the original domain Hychem.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 730.4 kB (32%)

Content Size

2.3 MB

After Optimization

1.6 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Hychem.co.za main page is 2.3 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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 1.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 123.0 kB

  • Original 148.4 kB
  • After minification 142.8 kB
  • After compression 25.4 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 123.0 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 21 B

  • Original 427.5 kB
  • After minification 427.4 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. HYCHEM images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-39%

Potential reduce by 557.9 kB

  • Original 1.4 MB
  • After minification 1.4 MB
  • After compression 871.1 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 557.9 kB or 39% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-16%

Potential reduce by 49.5 kB

  • Original 304.7 kB
  • After minification 303.4 kB
  • After compression 255.2 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. Hychem.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 49.5 kB or 16% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 102 (86%)

Requests Now

118

After Optimization

16

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 118 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of HYCHEM. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 77 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 27 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

www.hychem.co.za

www.hychem.co.za

4686 ms

style.min.css

style.min.css

1248 ms

styles.css

styles.css

986 ms

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991 ms

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995 ms

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995 ms

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1227 ms

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4876 ms

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5397 ms

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5856 ms

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76 ms

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50 ms

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5631 ms

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5616 ms

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38 ms

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6588 ms

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Accessibility Review

hychem.co.za accessibility score

78

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

[role]s are not contained by their required parent element

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

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

hychem.co.za best practices score

92

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

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

hychem.co.za SEO score

92

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Hychem.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 Hychem.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

hychem.co.za

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of HYCHEM. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: