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Report Summary

  • 21

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    39% of other websites

  • 70

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 35% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 69

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    28% of websites

ix.co.za

Expert Web Design Solutions | Marketing Agency | iX

Page Load Speed

9.8 sec in total

First Response

927 ms

Resources Loaded

8.1 sec

Page Rendered

760 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Ix.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 927 ms and then it took 8.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 85% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

ix.co.za performance score

21

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.1 s

3/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.1 s

6/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value13.6 s

2/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,220 ms

20/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.118

85/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value16.4 s

5/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

ix.co.za

927 ms

ix.co.za

1266 ms

www.ix.co.za

2688 ms

js

79 ms

fbevents.js

28 ms

Our browser made a total of 70 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 56% of them (39 requests) were addressed to the original Ix.co.za, 16% (11 requests) were made to Image.blob.ix.co.za and 11% (8 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (3 sec) belongs to the original domain Ix.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 72.2 kB (12%)

Content Size

615.3 kB

After Optimization

543.1 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Ix.co.za main page is 615.3 kB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 55% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 381.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 48.5 kB

  • Original 59.4 kB
  • After minification 40.5 kB
  • After compression 10.9 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 18.9 kB, which is 32% 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 48.5 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 15.0 kB

  • Original 381.8 kB
  • After minification 366.8 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. IX images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 7.8 kB

  • Original 133.8 kB
  • After minification 133.7 kB
  • After compression 126.0 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

-2%

Potential reduce by 881 B

  • Original 40.3 kB
  • After minification 40.3 kB
  • After compression 39.4 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. Ix.co.za has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 40 (71%)

Requests Now

56

After Optimization

16

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 56 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of IX. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 30 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 12 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

ix.co.za

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927 ms

ix.co.za

ix.co.za

1266 ms

www.ix.co.za

www.ix.co.za

2688 ms

js

js

79 ms

fbevents.js

fbevents.js

28 ms

css

css

1520 ms

select2.min.css

select2.min.css

1225 ms

fontawesome-all.min.css

fontawesome-all.min.css

1243 ms

magnific-popup.css

magnific-popup.css

1245 ms

owl.carousel.css

owl.carousel.css

1264 ms

themify-icons.css

themify-icons.css

1531 ms

default.css

default.css

1546 ms

main.css

main.css

1548 ms

dcard.css

dcard.css

1575 ms

custom.css

custom.css

1819 ms

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w2jh1pWZrD

213 ms

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1593 ms

js

js

49 ms

Top-15-1920x800.jpg

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2354 ms

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2419 ms

js

js

50 ms

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analytics.js

11 ms

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338 ms

collect

collect

12 ms

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555 ms

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1294 ms

jquery

jquery

3037 ms

bootstrap

bootstrap

2152 ms

jquery.inputmask.min.js

jquery.inputmask.min.js

1295 ms

engine

engine

1590 ms

LazyLoader.min.js

LazyLoader.min.js

1466 ms

Wishlist.min.js

Wishlist.min.js

1512 ms

Widget.min.js

Widget.min.js

1553 ms

select2.min.js

select2.min.js

1775 ms

ImageRotator.min.js

ImageRotator.min.js

1813 ms

fingerprint.min.js

fingerprint.min.js

1857 ms

WGLHashing.min.js

WGLHashing.min.js

1900 ms

blueimp-gallery.min.js

blueimp-gallery.min.js

2083 ms

blueimp-gallery-youtube.min.js

blueimp-gallery-youtube.min.js

2112 ms

blueimp-gallery-video.min.js

blueimp-gallery-video.min.js

2163 ms

blueimp-gallery-indicator.min.js

blueimp-gallery-indicator.min.js

2211 ms

main.js

main.js

2392 ms

isotope.pkgd.min.js

isotope.pkgd.min.js

2414 ms

jquery.magnific-popup.js

jquery.magnific-popup.js

2453 ms

dcard.js

dcard.js

2467 ms

particles.js

particles.js

2521 ms

particles.json

particles.json

2700 ms

xscript.js

xscript.js

2714 ms

custom.js

custom.js

2757 ms

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WhiteBlueDot100X100-22-100x100.png

1289 ms

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1290 ms

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1582 ms

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1521 ms

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1522 ms

ix_blue_150x120.svg

ix_blue_150x120.svg

1566 ms

css

css

36 ms

css

css

51 ms

Bottom-12-1920x1280.jpg

Bottom-12-1920x1280.jpg

1199 ms

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43 ms

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45 ms

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43 ms

themify.woff

themify.woff

1480 ms

fa-solid-900.woff

fa-solid-900.woff

1849 ms

fa-regular-400.woff

fa-regular-400.woff

1715 ms

bundle_en_US.js

bundle_en_US.js

49 ms

Accessibility Review

ix.co.za accessibility score

70

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 input fields do not have accessible names

High

ARIA progressbar elements do not have accessible names.

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Form elements do not have associated labels

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Best Practices

ix.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

SEO Factors

ix.co.za SEO score

69

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

Links are not crawlable

High

robots.txt is not valid

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 Ix.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 Ix.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

ix.co.za

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