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Report Summary

  • 100

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    97% of other websites

  • 89

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 72% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 64

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    24% of websites

locost.co.za

Locost SA

Page Load Speed

4.9 sec in total

First Response

843 ms

Resources Loaded

3.9 sec

Page Rendered

242 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Locost.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 843 ms and then it took 4.1 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

locost.co.za performance score

100

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value0.6 s

100/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value0.6 s

100/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value1.7 s

100/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value0.6 s

100/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

locost.co.za

843 ms

Header01.htm

269 ms

Contents01.htm

1339 ms

Main01.htm

1351 ms

seven.gif

313 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 Locost.co.za and no external sources were called. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.7 sec) belongs to the original domain Locost.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 9.8 kB (3%)

Content Size

360.7 kB

After Optimization

350.9 kB

  • HTML
  • Images

In fact, the total size of Locost.co.za main page is 360.7 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 359.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-56%

Potential reduce by 714 B

  • Original 1.3 kB
  • After minification 1.3 kB
  • After compression 571 B

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 714 B or 56% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 9.0 kB

  • Original 359.4 kB
  • After minification 350.4 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. Locost images are well optimized though.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

18

After Optimization

18

  • AJAX
  • Images

The browser has sent 18 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Locost. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Network Requests Diagram

locost.co.za

locost.co.za

843 ms

Header01.htm

Header01.htm

269 ms

Contents01.htm

Contents01.htm

1339 ms

Main01.htm

Main01.htm

1351 ms

seven.gif

seven.gif

313 ms

chassis.gif

chassis.gif

296 ms

Locost%20Position.jpg

Locost%20Position.jpg

1387 ms

BradWoolley1.jpg

BradWoolley1.jpg

579 ms

P1060390.JPG

P1060390.JPG

1332 ms

P1050798.JPG

P1050798.JPG

1351 ms

SAFlag.gif

SAFlag.gif

843 ms

P1040460small.jpg

P1040460small.jpg

575 ms

Westfield%20157.jpg

Westfield%20157.jpg

847 ms

P0000010small.jpg

P0000010small.jpg

855 ms

Midvaal_sm.jpg

Midvaal_sm.jpg

1122 ms

Stig.jpg

Stig.jpg

1389 ms

sidebar.jpg

sidebar.jpg

1146 ms

XTR2.gif

XTR2.gif

1660 ms

Luego2.gif

Luego2.gif

1408 ms

Accessibility Review

locost.co.za accessibility score

89

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

Best Practices

locost.co.za best practices score

83

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

SEO Factors

locost.co.za SEO score

64

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    WINDOWS-1252

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Locost.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 Locost.co.za main page’s claimed encoding is windows-1252. 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

locost.co.za

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