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Report Summary

  • 20

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    37% of other websites

  • 82

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 52% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

interhost.co.za

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Page Load Speed

4.1 sec in total

First Response

551 ms

Resources Loaded

3.2 sec

Page Rendered

400 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Interhost.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 551 ms and then it took 3.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 60% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

interhost.co.za performance score

20

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.2 s

42/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value14.6 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value10.4 s

8/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,560 ms

1/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.047

99/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value21.7 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

interhost.co.za

551 ms

font-awesome.min.css

49 ms

main.css

395 ms

snippet.js

55 ms

api.js

51 ms

Our browser made a total of 59 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 41% of them (24 requests) were addressed to the original Interhost.co.za, 10% (6 requests) were made to Use.typekit.net and 8% (5 requests) were made to Youtube.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.8 sec) belongs to the original domain Interhost.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 67.6 kB (4%)

Content Size

1.6 MB

After Optimization

1.5 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Interhost.co.za main page is 1.6 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. 80% 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 1.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 28.7 kB

  • Original 36.2 kB
  • After minification 27.2 kB
  • After compression 7.4 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 9.0 kB, which is 25% 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 28.7 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 27.8 kB

  • Original 1.0 MB
  • After minification 1.0 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. Interhost images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 5.3 kB

  • Original 435.9 kB
  • After minification 435.9 kB
  • After compression 430.6 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

-7%

Potential reduce by 5.8 kB

  • Original 79.6 kB
  • After minification 79.6 kB
  • After compression 73.8 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. Interhost.co.za has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 20 (43%)

Requests Now

47

After Optimization

27

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 47 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Interhost. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 17 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

interhost.co.za

interhost.co.za

551 ms

font-awesome.min.css

font-awesome.min.css

49 ms

main.css

main.css

395 ms

snippet.js

snippet.js

55 ms

api.js

api.js

51 ms

oyy6iyo.js

oyy6iyo.js

280 ms

modernizr-2.8.3.min.js

modernizr-2.8.3.min.js

29 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

39 ms

plugins.js

plugins.js

33 ms

main.js

main.js

340 ms

js

js

79 ms

recaptcha__en.js

recaptcha__en.js

245 ms

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3WHCQfNqShk

311 ms

logo.png

logo.png

656 ms

email.png

email.png

631 ms

phone.png

phone.png

631 ms

hero.jpg

hero.jpg

758 ms

Microsoft-Band_Lifestyle_M2.png

Microsoft-Band_Lifestyle_M2.png

943 ms

Microsoftintroducest07_Web.jpg

Microsoftintroducest07_Web.jpg

770 ms

cosn.jpg

cosn.jpg

1069 ms

Staying_in_Touch_Web.jpg

Staying_in_Touch_Web.jpg

955 ms

trianglify.svg

trianglify.svg

948 ms

checked.svg

checked.svg

1077 ms

about-us.jpg

about-us.jpg

1072 ms

placeholder1.jpg

placeholder1.jpg

1337 ms

placeholder2.jpg

placeholder2.jpg

1427 ms

010-hosted-desktop.svg

010-hosted-desktop.svg

1269 ms

011-connectivity.svg

011-connectivity.svg

1381 ms

colocation.svg

colocation.svg

1384 ms

mp_logo.png

mp_logo.png

1559 ms

ISO28.png

ISO28.png

1667 ms

fontawesome-webfont.woff

fontawesome-webfont.woff

1814 ms

fontawesome-webfont.woff

fontawesome-webfont.woff

174 ms

d

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41 ms

d

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107 ms

d

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108 ms

d

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108 ms

d

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122 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

111 ms

hotjar-1060165.js

hotjar-1060165.js

446 ms

fallback

fallback

84 ms

www-player.css

www-player.css

25 ms

www-embed-player.js

www-embed-player.js

45 ms

base.js

base.js

71 ms

fallback__ltr.css

fallback__ltr.css

268 ms

ad_status.js

ad_status.js

153 ms

p.gif

p.gif

147 ms

KZ9qBfv2Fvj8--thF3jkrqmjFIXwxVfodGy5wvrcirQ.js

KZ9qBfv2Fvj8--thF3jkrqmjFIXwxVfodGy5wvrcirQ.js

79 ms

embed.js

embed.js

36 ms

css

css

129 ms

modules.0721e7cf944cf9d78a0b.js

modules.0721e7cf944cf9d78a0b.js

125 ms

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KFOmCnqEu92Fr1Mu4mxP.ttf

119 ms

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KFOlCnqEu92Fr1MmEU9fBBc9.ttf

122 ms

id

id

95 ms

logo_48.png

logo_48.png

14 ms

Create

Create

25 ms

KFOmCnqEu92Fr1Mu4mxP.ttf

KFOmCnqEu92Fr1Mu4mxP.ttf

9 ms

KFOlCnqEu92Fr1MmEU9fBBc9.ttf

KFOlCnqEu92Fr1MmEU9fBBc9.ttf

14 ms

GenerateIT

GenerateIT

14 ms

Accessibility Review

interhost.co.za accessibility score

82

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

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

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

interhost.co.za best practices score

75

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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

interhost.co.za SEO score

86

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

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

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

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

interhost.co.za

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