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Report Summary

  • 93

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    92% of other websites

  • 68

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 33% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    20% of websites

  • 58

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    21% of websites

laycolsportsbottles.co.za

:: Laycol's - Plastic Water Drinking Sports Bottles::

Page Load Speed

3.5 sec in total

First Response

781 ms

Resources Loaded

2.6 sec

Page Rendered

137 ms

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About Website

Click here to check amazing Laycol Sports Bottles content. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about laycolsportsbottles.co.za

Laycol has been manufacturing custom-imprinted drinking bottles for the last fourteen years and has by far the largest range in South Africa

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Key Findings

We analyzed Laycolsportsbottles.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 781 ms and then it took 2.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

laycolsportsbottles.co.za performance score

93

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.0 s

100/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.2 s

95/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.2 s

91/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value30 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.176

68/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value1.7 s

100/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

laycolsportsbottles.co.za

781 ms

text.css

264 ms

default.css

508 ms

nivo-slider.css

511 ms

jquery-1.6.1.min.js

772 ms

Our browser made a total of 19 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that all of those requests were addressed to Laycolsportsbottles.co.za and no external sources were called. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1 sec) belongs to the original domain Laycolsportsbottles.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 8.0 kB (3%)

Content Size

284.7 kB

After Optimization

276.7 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Laycolsportsbottles.co.za main page is 284.7 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. 20% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 239.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-69%

Potential reduce by 5.4 kB

  • Original 7.9 kB
  • After minification 7.0 kB
  • After compression 2.5 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 887 B, which is 11% 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 5.4 kB or 69% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 1.8 kB

  • Original 239.9 kB
  • After minification 238.1 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. Laycol Sports Bottles images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 162 B

  • Original 35.3 kB
  • After minification 35.3 kB
  • After compression 35.2 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

-36%

Potential reduce by 541 B

  • Original 1.5 kB
  • After minification 1.5 kB
  • After compression 953 B

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. Laycolsportsbottles.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 541 B or 36% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 5 (28%)

Requests Now

18

After Optimization

13

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 18 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Laycol Sports Bottles. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

laycolsportsbottles.co.za

laycolsportsbottles.co.za

781 ms

text.css

text.css

264 ms

default.css

default.css

508 ms

nivo-slider.css

nivo-slider.css

511 ms

jquery-1.6.1.min.js

jquery-1.6.1.min.js

772 ms

jquery.nivo.slider.pack.js

jquery.nivo.slider.pack.js

535 ms

logo.jpg

logo.jpg

536 ms

contac.gif

contac.gif

537 ms

navend.gif

navend.gif

761 ms

line.gif

line.gif

767 ms

pic1.jpg

pic1.jpg

1031 ms

pic2.jpg

pic2.jpg

527 ms

pic3.jpg

pic3.jpg

532 ms

leftshade.gif

leftshade.gif

505 ms

rightshade.gif

rightshade.gif

513 ms

loading.gif

loading.gif

261 ms

bottom.gif

bottom.gif

486 ms

arrows.png

arrows.png

262 ms

bullets.png

bullets.png

257 ms

Accessibility Review

laycolsportsbottles.co.za accessibility score

68

Accessibility Issues

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

Best Practices

laycolsportsbottles.co.za best practices score

58

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

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

laycolsportsbottles.co.za SEO score

58

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

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

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

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

laycolsportsbottles.co.za

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Laycol Sports Bottles. 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: