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Report Summary

  • 23

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    42% of other websites

  • 93

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 82% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 75

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    32% of websites

metroprop.co.za

Home

Page Load Speed

9.4 sec in total

First Response

2.3 sec

Resources Loaded

6.8 sec

Page Rendered

229 ms

metroprop.co.za screenshot

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Metroprop.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 2.3 sec and then it took 7.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 80% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

metroprop.co.za performance score

23

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.6 s

33/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.8 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.5 s

17/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,380 ms

5/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.015

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value13.3 s

12/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

metroprop.co.za

2297 ms

museredirect.js

558 ms

site_global.css

534 ms

master_a-master.css

535 ms

index.css

541 ms

Our browser made a total of 71 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 70% of them (50 requests) were addressed to the original Metroprop.co.za, 7% (5 requests) were made to Webfonts.creativecloud.com and 4% (3 requests) were made to Youtube.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (3.5 sec) belongs to the original domain Metroprop.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 459.0 kB (74%)

Content Size

624.1 kB

After Optimization

165.1 kB

  • HTML
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Metroprop.co.za main page is 624.1 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. 50% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 343.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 28.4 kB

  • Original 36.2 kB
  • After minification 30.9 kB
  • After compression 7.8 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 5.3 kB, which is 15% 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 28.4 kB or 78% of the original size.

JavaScript Optimization

-66%

Potential reduce by 227.9 kB

  • Original 343.7 kB
  • After minification 343.7 kB
  • After compression 115.7 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 227.9 kB or 66% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 202.6 kB

  • Original 244.2 kB
  • After minification 244.1 kB
  • After compression 41.5 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. Metroprop.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 202.6 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 22 (33%)

Requests Now

66

After Optimization

44

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 66 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Metroprop. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 19 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

metroprop.co.za

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museredirect.js

558 ms

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site_global.css

534 ms

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535 ms

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index.css

541 ms

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563 ms

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543 ms

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448 ms

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43 ms

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349 ms

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53 ms

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p.gif

152 ms

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120 ms

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83 ms

Widget

Widget

74 ms

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82 ms

jquery.min.js

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8 ms

Accessibility Review

metroprop.co.za accessibility score

93

Accessibility Issues

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

metroprop.co.za best practices score

92

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

metroprop.co.za SEO score

75

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

Links do not have descriptive text

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

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

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

metroprop.co.za

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