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Report Summary

  • 75

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    84% of other websites

  • 57

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 24% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 67

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    25% of websites

ksw.co.za

Aluminium, Wood and Steel Doors, Windows and frames - South Africa

Page Load Speed

4.6 sec in total

First Response

1.1 sec

Resources Loaded

3.4 sec

Page Rendered

163 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Ksw.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 1.1 sec and then it took 3.5 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

ksw.co.za performance score

75

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.4 s

96/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.0 s

50/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.1 s

93/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value370 ms

71/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value5.5 s

71/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

ksw.co.za

1100 ms

js

104 ms

analytics.js

15 ms

Clipboard3.jpg

1144 ms

Logo_BEE.jpg

1102 ms

Our browser made a total of 29 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 69% of them (20 requests) were addressed to the original Ksw.co.za, 14% (4 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 10% (3 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.3 sec) belongs to the original domain Ksw.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 76.9 kB (13%)

Content Size

611.7 kB

After Optimization

534.8 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript

In fact, the total size of Ksw.co.za main page is 611.7 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. 50% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 504.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 27.7 kB

  • Original 32.9 kB
  • After minification 25.6 kB
  • After compression 5.2 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 22% 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 27.7 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 17.1 kB

  • Original 504.9 kB
  • After minification 487.8 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. Ksw images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-43%

Potential reduce by 32.0 kB

  • Original 73.9 kB
  • After minification 73.9 kB
  • After compression 41.9 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 32.0 kB or 43% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 4 (14%)

Requests Now

28

After Optimization

24

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript

The browser has sent 28 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Ksw. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 5 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

ksw.co.za

ksw.co.za

1100 ms

js

js

104 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

15 ms

Clipboard3.jpg

Clipboard3.jpg

1144 ms

Logo_BEE.jpg

Logo_BEE.jpg

1102 ms

Logo_SAGGA.jpg

Logo_SAGGA.jpg

1106 ms

Logo_AAAMSA.jpg

Logo_AAAMSA.jpg

1139 ms

Xpanda_logo_sm.jpg

Xpanda_logo_sm.jpg

1139 ms

google-plus-logo-button.jpg

google-plus-logo-button.jpg

1138 ms

FacebookButton.jpg

FacebookButton.jpg

1469 ms

hail3_sm.jpg

hail3_sm.jpg

1475 ms

BackgroundSteel4.jpg

BackgroundSteel4.jpg

1522 ms

BackgroundAluminium4.jpg

BackgroundAluminium4.jpg

1523 ms

BackgroundWood4.jpg

BackgroundWood4.jpg

1522 ms

BackgroundBraais4.jpg

BackgroundBraais4.jpg

1526 ms

BackgroundOther4.jpg

BackgroundOther4.jpg

1842 ms

BackgroundSecurity4.jpg

BackgroundSecurity4.jpg

1847 ms

BackgroundProjects4.jpg

BackgroundProjects4.jpg

1906 ms

BackgroundXpanda4.jpg

BackgroundXpanda4.jpg

1906 ms

Logo_Partitions_sm.jpg

Logo_Partitions_sm.jpg

2283 ms

Logo_Lapas_sm.jpg

Logo_Lapas_sm.jpg

1911 ms

Logo_Projects_sm.jpg

Logo_Projects_sm.jpg

2215 ms

collect

collect

24 ms

js

js

63 ms

js

js

70 ms

collect

collect

61 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

59 ms

collect

collect

87 ms

ga-audiences

ga-audiences

35 ms

Accessibility Review

ksw.co.za accessibility score

57

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.

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

ksw.co.za best practices score

75

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

SEO Factors

ksw.co.za SEO score

67

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Ksw.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 Ksw.co.za main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. 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

ksw.co.za

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