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Report Summary

  • 34

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    54% of other websites

  • 92

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 78% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 97

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    91% of websites

notebookdirect.co.za

Laptops South Africa at cheapest prices best service in South Africa. Notebooks at Laptop Direct.

Page Load Speed

5 sec in total

First Response

600 ms

Resources Loaded

4 sec

Page Rendered

471 ms

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About Website

Welcome to notebookdirect.co.za homepage info - get ready to check Notebook Direct best content right away, or after learning these important things about notebookdirect.co.za

Buy Laptops at the best prices in South Africa. Direct public sales at warehouse prices. notebook computers at better pricing and service. Regional sales - South Africa sales.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Notebookdirect.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 600 ms and then it took 4.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 70% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

notebookdirect.co.za performance score

34

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.2 s

44/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.0 s

6/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.0 s

46/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,460 ms

15/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.001

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value8.7 s

36/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

notebookdirect.co.za

600 ms

www.laptopdirect.co.za

1612 ms

prototype173.js

293 ms

livepipe.js

306 ms

cookie.js

308 ms

Our browser made a total of 85 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Notebookdirect.co.za, 94% (80 requests) were made to Laptopdirect.co.za and 2% (2 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.6 sec) relates to the external source Laptopdirect.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 365.2 kB (45%)

Content Size

812.1 kB

After Optimization

446.9 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Notebookdirect.co.za main page is 812.1 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. 40% of websites need less resources to load. HTML takes 383.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 330.5 kB

  • Original 383.8 kB
  • After minification 378.1 kB
  • After compression 53.2 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 330.5 kB or 86% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 14.8 kB

  • Original 339.1 kB
  • After minification 324.2 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. Notebook Direct images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-21%

Potential reduce by 15.6 kB

  • Original 74.7 kB
  • After minification 74.4 kB
  • After compression 59.1 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 15.6 kB or 21% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-29%

Potential reduce by 4.2 kB

  • Original 14.5 kB
  • After minification 14.3 kB
  • After compression 10.3 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. Notebookdirect.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 4.2 kB or 29% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 33 (40%)

Requests Now

83

After Optimization

50

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 83 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Notebook Direct. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 14 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

notebookdirect.co.za

notebookdirect.co.za

600 ms

www.laptopdirect.co.za

www.laptopdirect.co.za

1612 ms

prototype173.js

prototype173.js

293 ms

livepipe.js

livepipe.js

306 ms

cookie.js

cookie.js

308 ms

css-20150605.css

css-20150605.css

307 ms

dropdown.linear.columnar.css

dropdown.linear.columnar.css

332 ms

default.advanced.css

default.advanced.css

333 ms

autosuggest_inquisitor.css

autosuggest_inquisitor.css

390 ms

js

js

84 ms

js

js

123 ms

scriptaculous.js

scriptaculous.js

211 ms

lightbox.js

lightbox.js

225 ms

bsn.AutoSuggest_2.1.3_comp.js

bsn.AutoSuggest_2.1.3_comp.js

224 ms

rating.js

rating.js

228 ms

js-4.js

js-4.js

243 ms

dropdown.linear.css

dropdown.linear.css

156 ms

default.css

default.css

167 ms

dropdown.css

dropdown.css

100 ms

header-stripes-compact.jpg

header-stripes-compact.jpg

135 ms

bg-xmas-gift.jpg

bg-xmas-gift.jpg

292 ms

webafrcia-120-54.gif

webafrcia-120-54.gif

138 ms

btn-home.png

btn-home.png

139 ms

btn_email.png

btn_email.png

135 ms

btn_q.png

btn_q.png

137 ms

btn-facebook.png

btn-facebook.png

200 ms

btn-twitter.png

btn-twitter.png

205 ms

btn_blank.png

btn_blank.png

208 ms

laptop-configuration.jpg

laptop-configuration.jpg

209 ms

newsletter-mail.gif

newsletter-mail.gif

224 ms

button_grid_off.png

button_grid_off.png

302 ms

button_list_off.png

button_list_off.png

314 ms

button_half_on.png

button_half_on.png

322 ms

promotion_tag_0.png

promotion_tag_0.png

320 ms

new-sticker.png

new-sticker.png

334 ms

phpThumb.php

phpThumb.php

412 ms

phpThumb.php

phpThumb.php

425 ms

phpThumb.php

phpThumb.php

441 ms

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439 ms

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438 ms

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455 ms

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524 ms

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537 ms

phpThumb.php

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555 ms

Rated5.gif

Rated5.gif

543 ms

phpThumb.php

phpThumb.php

554 ms

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572 ms

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634 ms

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642 ms

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652 ms

phpThumb.php

phpThumb.php

675 ms

notification.gif

notification.gif

660 ms

phpThumb.php

phpThumb.php

689 ms

phpThumb.php

phpThumb.php

754 ms

all.js

all.js

109 ms

phpThumb.php

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709 ms

phpThumb.php

phpThumb.php

643 ms

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phpThumb.php

644 ms

phpThumb.php

phpThumb.php

658 ms

phpThumb.php

phpThumb.php

670 ms

all.js

all.js

7 ms

phpThumb.php

phpThumb.php

733 ms

effects.js

effects.js

677 ms

builder.js

builder.js

680 ms

phpThumb.php

phpThumb.php

689 ms

phpThumb.php

phpThumb.php

696 ms

phpThumb.php

phpThumb.php

702 ms

phpThumb.php

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687 ms

phpThumb.php

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683 ms

phpThumb.php

phpThumb.php

683 ms

phpThumb.php

phpThumb.php

701 ms

webafrica-728x90-a.gif

webafrica-728x90-a.gif

786 ms

laptopdirect-sa.jpg

laptopdirect-sa.jpg

702 ms

btn_facebook.gif

btn_facebook.gif

663 ms

btn_twitter.gif

btn_twitter.gif

659 ms

compare-bg.png

compare-bg.png

664 ms

bg-grad.jpg

bg-grad.jpg

687 ms

intro_texture.png

intro_texture.png

910 ms

thumbs-up.gif

thumbs-up.gif

720 ms

button_grid_on.png

button_grid_on.png

660 ms

button_half_off.png

button_half_off.png

672 ms

footer-fade.gif

footer-fade.gif

664 ms

list_gt.gif

list_gt.gif

673 ms

loading-round.gif

loading-round.gif

385 ms

closelabel.gif

closelabel.gif

393 ms

Accessibility Review

notebookdirect.co.za accessibility score

92

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.

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

notebookdirect.co.za best practices score

75

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

SEO Factors

notebookdirect.co.za SEO score

97

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

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

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 Notebookdirect.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 Notebookdirect.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

notebookdirect.co.za

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