Report Summary

  • 75

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    84% of other websites

  • 94

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 84% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 85

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    56% of websites

Page Load Speed

1.5 sec in total

First Response

223 ms

Resources Loaded

915 ms

Page Rendered

376 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Howick.olx.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 223 ms and then it took 1.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 25% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

howick.olx.co.za performance score

75

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.9 s

25/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.9 s

53/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.6 s

52/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.03

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value3.9 s

89/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

howick.olx.co.za

223 ms

ninja.js

72 ms

sw154d48cd452fca6a0af064d555907ed3.css

8 ms

sw735a634ac0e0e374ff64e514d38a9a97.css

5 ms

sw8b5fb3aead3370e5feab226898c10f8a.js

70 ms

Our browser made a total of 68 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Howick.olx.co.za, 16% (11 requests) were made to Img03.olx.co.za and 10% (7 requests) were made to S1.olx.co.za. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (454 ms) relates to the external source Img03.olx.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 896.0 kB (41%)

Content Size

2.2 MB

After Optimization

1.3 MB

In fact, the total size of Howick.olx.co.za main page is 2.2 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 105.6 kB

  • Original 122.4 kB
  • After minification 102.4 kB
  • After compression 16.9 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 20.0 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 105.6 kB or 86% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-10%

Potential reduce by 107.9 kB

  • Original 1.1 MB
  • After minification 1.0 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. Howick OLX images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-68%

Potential reduce by 395.4 kB

  • Original 577.4 kB
  • After minification 577.4 kB
  • After compression 182.0 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 395.4 kB or 68% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 287.1 kB

  • Original 348.0 kB
  • After minification 318.6 kB
  • After compression 60.8 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. Howick.olx.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 287.1 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 20 (31%)

Requests Now

64

After Optimization

44

The browser has sent 64 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Howick OLX. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 11 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

howick.olx.co.za accessibility score

94

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

howick.olx.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

SEO Factors

howick.olx.co.za SEO score

85

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

robots.txt is not valid

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 Howick.olx.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 Howick.olx.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 Howick OLX. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: