Report Summary

  • 41

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    60% of other websites

  • 78

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 46% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    75% of websites

ledge.co.za

Leading Edge Business Solutions - IT and Soft Skills training courses and Linux Solutions

Page Load Speed

5 sec in total

First Response

1.6 sec

Resources Loaded

2.8 sec

Page Rendered

675 ms

ledge.co.za screenshot

About Website

Click here to check amazing L Edge content for South Africa. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about ledge.co.za

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Key Findings

We analyzed Ledge.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 1.6 sec and then it took 3.4 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

ledge.co.za performance score

41

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.0 s

4/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.4 s

2/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value11.0 s

6/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value360 ms

72/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value9.3 s

32/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

ledge.co.za

1573 ms

new.css

235 ms

navigation3.css

470 ms

menubar.js

468 ms

background_new.jpg

477 ms

Our browser made a total of 12 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that all of those requests were addressed to Ledge.co.za and no external sources were called. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.6 sec) belongs to the original domain Ledge.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 84.8 kB (49%)

Content Size

173.2 kB

After Optimization

88.5 kB

In fact, the total size of Ledge.co.za main page is 173.2 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. Only 10% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 96.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 44.6 kB

  • Original 53.8 kB
  • After minification 53.0 kB
  • After compression 9.3 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 44.6 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-22%

Potential reduce by 21.1 kB

  • Original 96.5 kB
  • After minification 75.4 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. Obviously, L Edge needs image optimization as it can save up to 21.1 kB or 22% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 12.9 kB

  • Original 14.8 kB
  • After minification 7.4 kB
  • After compression 2.0 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 12.9 kB or 87% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 6.2 kB

  • Original 8.1 kB
  • After minification 6.0 kB
  • After compression 1.9 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. Ledge.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 6.2 kB or 77% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

11

After Optimization

11

The browser has sent 11 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of L Edge. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Accessibility Review

ledge.co.za accessibility score

78

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

ledge.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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

ledge.co.za SEO score

92

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

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Ledge.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 Ledge.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 description is not detected on the main page of L Edge. 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: