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Report Summary

  • 46

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    65% of other websites

  • 93

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 80% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    74% of websites

localpros.co.za

Local Pros - Find Home Repair And Improvement Tradesmen | Home Services Directory

Page Load Speed

3.9 sec in total

First Response

146 ms

Resources Loaded

1.4 sec

Page Rendered

2.3 sec

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About Website

Click here to check amazing Local Pros content for South Africa. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about localpros.co.za

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Key Findings

We analyzed Localpros.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 146 ms and then it took 3.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 65% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

localpros.co.za performance score

46

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.3 s

40/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.5 s

63/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.4 s

73/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,920 ms

8/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value11.9 s

17/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

localpros.co.za

146 ms

www.localpros.co.za

454 ms

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48 ms

Our browser made a total of 55 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 93% of them (51 requests) were addressed to the original Localpros.co.za, 4% (2 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com and 2% (1 request) were made to Cdnjs.cloudflare.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (474 ms) belongs to the original domain Localpros.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 198.9 kB (38%)

Content Size

522.8 kB

After Optimization

323.9 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Localpros.co.za main page is 522.8 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. HTML takes 229.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 197.7 kB

  • Original 229.4 kB
  • After minification 228.5 kB
  • After compression 31.8 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 197.7 kB or 86% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 60.2 kB
  • After minification 60.2 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. Local Pros images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 107 B

  • Original 91.3 kB
  • After minification 91.3 kB
  • After compression 91.2 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

-1%

Potential reduce by 1.1 kB

  • Original 141.8 kB
  • After minification 141.7 kB
  • After compression 140.7 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. Localpros.co.za has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 42 (89%)

Requests Now

47

After Optimization

5

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 47 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Local Pros. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 11 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 33 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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Accessibility Review

localpros.co.za accessibility score

93

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

List items (<li>) are not contained within <ul> or <ol> parent elements.

Best Practices

localpros.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

SEO Factors

localpros.co.za SEO score

92

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Localpros.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 Localpros.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

localpros.co.za

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