Report Summary

  • 34

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    53% of other websites

  • 80

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 49% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 91

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    70% of websites

ic-express.co.za

ICExpress Courier | South Africa's #1 online courier

Page Load Speed

1.3 sec in total

First Response

638 ms

Resources Loaded

638 ms

Page Rendered

0 ms

ic-express.co.za screenshot

About Website

Welcome to ic-express.co.za homepage info - get ready to check ICExpress best content right away, or after learning these important things about ic-express.co.za

ICExpress specialize's in all door to door delivery, transport and courier service options. Express courier, Budget courier , Road Freight and International Airfreight.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Ic-express.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 638 ms and then it took 638 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 10% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

ic-express.co.za performance score

34

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.1 s

99/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value11.4 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.0 s

80/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,350 ms

2/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.004

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value19.5 s

2/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

ic-express.co.za

638 ms

Our browser made a total of 1 request to load all elements on the main page. We found that all of those requests were addressed to Ic-express.co.za and no external sources were called. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (638 ms) belongs to the original domain Ic-express.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 86.6 kB (10%)

Content Size

873.7 kB

After Optimization

787.1 kB

In fact, the total size of Ic-express.co.za main page is 873.7 kB. This result falls within the top 5000 of lightweight and thus fast loading web pages. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 547.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by -8 B

  • Original 0 B

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 web page is already compressed.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 399 B

  • Original 296.1 kB
  • After minification 295.7 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. ICExpress images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-15%

Potential reduce by 82.6 kB

  • Original 547.6 kB
  • After minification 547.6 kB
  • After compression 464.9 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 82.6 kB or 15% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-12%

Potential reduce by 3.6 kB

  • Original 30.0 kB
  • After minification 30.0 kB
  • After compression 26.4 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. Ic-express.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 3.6 kB or 12% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

0

After Optimization

0

Besides the initial HTML request, no CSS, Javascripts, AJAX or image files were requested in the course of web page rendering.

Accessibility Review

ic-express.co.za accessibility score

80

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

[aria-hidden="true"] elements contain focusable descendents

High

ARIA IDs are not unique

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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.

Best Practices

ic-express.co.za best practices score

67

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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

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

ic-express.co.za SEO score

91

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    N/A

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Ic-express.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 Ic-express.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

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