Report Summary

  • 25

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    44% of other websites

  • 78

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 45% of websites

  • 33

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    19% of websites

  • 46

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    18% of websites

ifashion.co.za

Home | iFashion

Page Load Speed

150 sec in total

First Response

2.2 sec

Resources Loaded

147.5 sec

Page Rendered

291 ms

ifashion.co.za screenshot

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Ifashion.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 2.2 sec and then it took 147.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 95% of websites can load faster. Unfortunately, there were 9 request timeouts, which can generally increase the web page load time, as the browser stays idle while waiting for website response.

Performance Metrics

ifashion.co.za performance score

25

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.3 s

98/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value39.2 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value49.9 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,170 ms

2/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.011

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value38.2 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

ifashion.co.za

2153 ms

load-spec.css

888 ms

rokbox-style.css

811 ms

style.css

956 ms

style.css

654 ms

Our browser made a total of 211 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 33% of them (69 requests) were addressed to the original Ifashion.co.za, 8% (17 requests) were made to Assets.alicdn.com and 6% (12 requests) were made to Ae01.alicdn.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (20.3 sec) relates to the external source Stats.itweb.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.3 MB (40%)

Content Size

3.3 MB

After Optimization

2.0 MB

In fact, the total size of Ifashion.co.za main page is 3.3 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. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 2.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 40.0 kB

  • Original 49.6 kB
  • After minification 42.2 kB
  • After compression 9.6 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 7.4 kB, which is 15% of the original size. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 40.0 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 47.1 kB

  • Original 1.1 MB
  • After minification 1.1 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. IFashion images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-58%

Potential reduce by 1.1 MB

  • Original 2.0 MB
  • After minification 2.0 MB
  • After compression 825.8 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 1.1 MB or 58% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-61%

Potential reduce by 115.8 kB

  • Original 190.3 kB
  • After minification 190.2 kB
  • After compression 74.5 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. Ifashion.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 115.8 kB or 61% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 78 (47%)

Requests Now

167

After Optimization

89

The browser has sent 167 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of IFashion. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 44 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 22 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

ifashion.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.

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

ifashion.co.za best practices score

33

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

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

ifashion.co.za SEO score

46

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

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Crawling and Indexing

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

Impact

Issue

High

Page is blocked from indexing

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 Ifashion.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 Ifashion.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 IFashion. 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: