Report Summary

  • 9

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    23% of other websites

  • 97

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 92% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    83% of websites

iridology.co.za

Iridology Institute of Southern Africa, iridology leader ca 1989

Page Load Speed

12.1 sec in total

First Response

619 ms

Resources Loaded

11.2 sec

Page Rendered

249 ms

iridology.co.za screenshot

About Website

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South Africa's #1 Iridology service provider. We provide premier Iridology courses, training, equipment and related products and services, since 1989.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Iridology.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 619 ms and then it took 11.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 90% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

iridology.co.za performance score

9

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.9 s

4/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value19.3 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value17.4 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value4,000 ms

1/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.235

53/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value26.0 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

iridology.co.za

619 ms

iridology.co.za

4389 ms

styles.css

741 ms

front.css

737 ms

frontend.css

743 ms

Our browser made a total of 152 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 84% of them (127 requests) were addressed to the original Iridology.co.za, 7% (11 requests) were made to Youtube.com and 3% (4 requests) were made to Jnn-pa.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (4.4 sec) belongs to the original domain Iridology.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.5 MB (37%)

Content Size

4.1 MB

After Optimization

2.6 MB

In fact, the total size of Iridology.co.za main page is 4.1 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 1.7 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 1.4 MB

  • Original 1.6 MB
  • After minification 1.6 MB
  • After compression 224.6 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. 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 1.4 MB or 86% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 68.9 kB

  • Original 1.7 MB
  • After minification 1.6 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. Iridology images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 34.1 kB

  • Original 711.7 kB
  • After minification 711.3 kB
  • After compression 677.6 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

-1%

Potential reduce by 546 B

  • Original 91.5 kB
  • After minification 91.5 kB
  • After compression 90.9 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. Iridology.co.za has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 124 (86%)

Requests Now

144

After Optimization

20

The browser has sent 144 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Iridology. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 119 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

iridology.co.za accessibility score

97

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.

Best Practices

iridology.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

Page has valid source maps

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

iridology.co.za SEO score

93

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

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

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Iridology.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 Iridology.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 data is detected on the main page of Iridology. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: