Report Summary

  • 44

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    63% of other websites

  • 80

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 50% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    84% of websites

m2designs.co.za

M-Squared Designs - Web & Hosting services since 2008. KZN South Coast

Page Load Speed

9.1 sec in total

First Response

3 sec

Resources Loaded

5.2 sec

Page Rendered

887 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed M2designs.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 3 sec and then it took 6.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 75% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

m2designs.co.za performance score

44

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.2 s

19/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.9 s

3/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value10.8 s

6/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value350 ms

73/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.005

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value8.4 s

39/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.m2designs.co.za

3039 ms

layerslider.css

298 ms

css

26 ms

js_composer_front.css

291 ms

style.css

331 ms

Our browser made a total of 66 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 77% of them (51 requests) were addressed to the original M2designs.co.za, 18% (12 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 5% (3 requests) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (3 sec) belongs to the original domain M2designs.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.2 MB (19%)

Content Size

6.2 MB

After Optimization

5.0 MB

In fact, the total size of M2designs.co.za main page is 6.2 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. 85% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Images take 5.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-88%

Potential reduce by 71.0 kB

  • Original 80.4 kB
  • After minification 67.9 kB
  • After compression 9.4 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 12.5 kB, which is 16% 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 71.0 kB or 88% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 411.0 kB

  • Original 5.2 MB
  • After minification 4.8 MB

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. M2 Designs images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-67%

Potential reduce by 319.7 kB

  • Original 479.6 kB
  • After minification 468.9 kB
  • After compression 159.9 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 319.7 kB or 67% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 363.2 kB

  • Original 420.8 kB
  • After minification 339.2 kB
  • After compression 57.6 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. M2designs.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 363.2 kB or 86% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 20 (38%)

Requests Now

52

After Optimization

32

The browser has sent 52 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of M2 Designs. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 13 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 9 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

m2designs.co.za accessibility score

80

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

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

m2designs.co.za best practices score

92

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

m2designs.co.za SEO score

93

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

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 M2designs.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 M2designs.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 data is detected on the main page of M2 Designs. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: