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Report Summary

  • 38

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    57% of other websites

  • 66

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 31% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 75

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    32% of websites

lafarge.co.za

Lafarge in South Africa - Cement, concrete, aggregates

Page Load Speed

2.2 sec in total

First Response

366 ms

Resources Loaded

1.7 sec

Page Rendered

128 ms

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About Website

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Lafarge South Africa - A leading building solutions provider offering the construction industry an extensive range of quality through Cement, Aggregates and Concrete.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Lafarge.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 366 ms and then it took 1.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 35% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

lafarge.co.za performance score

38

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.5 s

6/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.8 s

3/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.3 s

19/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value460 ms

61/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value12.0 s

16/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

lafarge.co.za

366 ms

theme-style.css

137 ms

modernizr.js

208 ms

less.js

346 ms

js

55 ms

Our browser made a total of 54 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 98% of them (53 requests) were addressed to the original Lafarge.co.za, 2% (1 request) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (760 ms) belongs to the original domain Lafarge.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 985.5 kB (69%)

Content Size

1.4 MB

After Optimization

446.3 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Lafarge.co.za main page is 1.4 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. 50% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 743.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 21.6 kB

  • Original 26.3 kB
  • After minification 12.9 kB
  • After compression 4.7 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 13.4 kB, which is 51% 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 21.6 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 1.5 kB

  • Original 203.4 kB
  • After minification 201.9 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. Lafarge images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 557.7 kB

  • Original 743.7 kB
  • After minification 641.6 kB
  • After compression 185.9 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 557.7 kB or 75% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-88%

Potential reduce by 404.7 kB

  • Original 458.5 kB
  • After minification 356.5 kB
  • After compression 53.7 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. Lafarge.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 404.7 kB or 88% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 34 (72%)

Requests Now

47

After Optimization

13

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 47 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Lafarge. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 23 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 13 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

lafarge.co.za

lafarge.co.za

366 ms

theme-style.css

theme-style.css

137 ms

modernizr.js

modernizr.js

208 ms

less.js

less.js

346 ms

js

js

55 ms

jquery.js

jquery.js

353 ms

jquery.easing.1.3.js

jquery.easing.1.3.js

217 ms

bootstrap.js

bootstrap.js

353 ms

jquery.singlePageNav.min.js

jquery.singlePageNav.min.js

278 ms

wow.min.js

wow.min.js

279 ms

jquery.transit.js

jquery.transit.js

287 ms

jquery.jcountdown.js

jquery.jcountdown.js

348 ms

owl.carousel.js

owl.carousel.js

484 ms

jquery.appear.js

jquery.appear.js

351 ms

jquery.magnific-popup.js

jquery.magnific-popup.js

424 ms

jquery.quicksand.js

jquery.quicksand.js

417 ms

contact.js

contact.js

422 ms

jquery.ticker.js

jquery.ticker.js

422 ms

jquery.mb.YTPlayer.js

jquery.mb.YTPlayer.js

422 ms

jquery.elevateZoom-3.0.8.min.js

jquery.elevateZoom-3.0.8.min.js

554 ms

lightbox.js

lightbox.js

491 ms

jquery.themepunch.plugins.min.js

jquery.themepunch.plugins.min.js

560 ms

jquery.themepunch.revolution.min.js

jquery.themepunch.revolution.min.js

629 ms

jquery.scrollTo.js

jquery.scrollTo.js

494 ms

main.js

main.js

553 ms

bootstrap.css

bootstrap.css

565 ms

magnific-popup.css

magnific-popup.css

497 ms

ionicons.css

ionicons.css

625 ms

animate.css

animate.css

622 ms

lightbox.css

lightbox.css

561 ms

jquery.flexisel.css

jquery.flexisel.css

570 ms

revolution-settings.css

revolution-settings.css

633 ms

extralayers.css

extralayers.css

632 ms

owl.carousel.css

owl.carousel.css

635 ms

owl.transitions.css

owl.transitions.css

636 ms

main.css

main.css

760 ms

responsive-adjustments.css

responsive-adjustments.css

692 ms

close.png

close.png

98 ms

loading.gif

loading.gif

98 ms

prev.png

prev.png

101 ms

next.png

next.png

101 ms

logo_en.png

logo_en.png

99 ms

bg18.jpg

bg18.jpg

140 ms

Linkedin.svg

Linkedin.svg

145 ms

Youtube.svg

Youtube.svg

146 ms

Twitter.svg

Twitter.svg

144 ms

Facebook.svg

Facebook.svg

150 ms

Instagram.svg

Instagram.svg

149 ms

GothamSSm-Book_Web.woff

GothamSSm-Book_Web.woff

182 ms

GothamSSm-Medium_Web.woff

GothamSSm-Medium_Web.woff

253 ms

GothamSSm-Light_Web.woff

GothamSSm-Light_Web.woff

193 ms

GothamSSm-XLight_Web.woff

GothamSSm-XLight_Web.woff

193 ms

GothamSSm-Bold_Web.woff

GothamSSm-Bold_Web.woff

194 ms

GothamSSm-Black_Web.woff

GothamSSm-Black_Web.woff

257 ms

Accessibility Review

lafarge.co.za accessibility score

66

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best practices

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

lafarge.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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

lafarge.co.za SEO score

75

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

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

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

High

Page is blocked from indexing

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

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 Lafarge.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 Lafarge.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

lafarge.co.za

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