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Report Summary

  • 40

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    59% of other websites

  • 86

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 61% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    83% of websites

northernpole.co.za

Wooden poles and lapa construction materials | Northern Poles and Thatching

Page Load Speed

7.5 sec in total

First Response

2.4 sec

Resources Loaded

4.9 sec

Page Rendered

263 ms

northernpole.co.za screenshot

About Website

Click here to check amazing Northern Pole content for South Africa. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about northernpole.co.za

Northern Poles and Thatching is a supplier of wooden poles, CCA and creosote treated poles, fencing poles and thatching material in the North of Pretoria

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Key Findings

We analyzed Northernpole.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 2.4 sec and then it took 5.1 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

northernpole.co.za performance score

40

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.0 s

22/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value21.8 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.6 s

11/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value180 ms

91/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.379

27/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value7.3 s

49/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.northernpole.co.za

2392 ms

jquery.fancybox.css

22 ms

font-awesome.min.css

33 ms

style.min.css

88 ms

mediaelementplayer-legacy.min.css

29 ms

Our browser made a total of 61 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 84% of them (51 requests) were addressed to the original Northernpole.co.za, 10% (6 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 3% (2 requests) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.4 sec) belongs to the original domain Northernpole.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 131.3 kB (4%)

Content Size

3.2 MB

After Optimization

3.1 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript

In fact, the total size of Northernpole.co.za main page is 3.2 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. 80% 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 3.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 75.1 kB

  • Original 93.2 kB
  • After minification 88.4 kB
  • After compression 18.1 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 75.1 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 56.2 kB

  • Original 3.1 MB
  • After minification 3.0 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. Northern Pole images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 34 B

  • Original 16.3 kB
  • After minification 16.3 kB
  • After compression 16.3 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.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 27 (51%)

Requests Now

53

After Optimization

26

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 53 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Northern Pole. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 8 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 13 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

www.northernpole.co.za

www.northernpole.co.za

2392 ms

jquery.fancybox.css

jquery.fancybox.css

22 ms

font-awesome.min.css

font-awesome.min.css

33 ms

style.min.css

style.min.css

88 ms

mediaelementplayer-legacy.min.css

mediaelementplayer-legacy.min.css

29 ms

wp-mediaelement.min.css

wp-mediaelement.min.css

36 ms

style.css

style.css

37 ms

style.css

style.css

35 ms

css

css

43 ms

dashicons.min.css

dashicons.min.css

40 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

46 ms

jquery-migrate.min.js

jquery-migrate.min.js

48 ms

jquery.fancybox.pack.js

jquery.fancybox.pack.js

52 ms

st_insights.js

st_insights.js

27 ms

et-divi-customizer-global-17256996816614.min.css

et-divi-customizer-global-17256996816614.min.css

53 ms

ssba.css

ssba.css

48 ms

css

css

41 ms

ssba.js

ssba.js

57 ms

custom.unified.js

custom.unified.js

200 ms

common.js

common.js

60 ms

e-202437.js

e-202437.js

21 ms

style.css

style.css

59 ms

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northernp-logo-blue-copy.png

254 ms

woodenprod.png

woodenprod.png

254 ms

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253 ms

timbertreatment.png

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254 ms

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254 ms

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280 ms

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279 ms

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JungleFortRockWall1.png

280 ms

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282 ms

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marker.png

279 ms

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covid-250x.png

278 ms

facebook.png

facebook.png

286 ms

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google.png

285 ms

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twitter.png

285 ms

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285 ms

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285 ms

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312 ms

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309 ms

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306 ms

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310 ms

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308 ms

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307 ms

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344 ms

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343 ms

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283 ms

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302 ms

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302 ms

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305 ms

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303 ms

Early-spring-sale-northernpoles.jpg

Early-spring-sale-northernpoles.jpg

170 ms

from-the-forest-to-your-door.jpg

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169 ms

Thatchtileslide.jpg

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173 ms

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167 ms

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170 ms

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169 ms

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174 ms

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173 ms

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125 ms

modules.ttf

modules.ttf

531 ms

Accessibility Review

northernpole.co.za accessibility score

86

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

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

northernpole.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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

northernpole.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 Northernpole.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 Northernpole.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

northernpole.co.za

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