Report Summary

  • 22

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    40% of other websites

  • 88

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 68% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 96

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    90% of websites

openhost.co.za

Web Hosting, Domain Registration, SSL certificates, Web Design – OpenHost

Page Load Speed

6.6 sec in total

First Response

850 ms

Resources Loaded

5.6 sec

Page Rendered

141 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Openhost.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 850 ms and then it took 5.7 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

openhost.co.za performance score

22

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.4 s

17/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.4 s

40/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.3 s

12/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,780 ms

10/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.391

26/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value11.2 s

19/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

openhost.co.za

850 ms

www.openhost.co.za

1823 ms

6m0jz.css

1199 ms

6m0jz.css

2115 ms

9mrda.css

2147 ms

Our browser made a total of 46 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 43% of them (20 requests) were addressed to the original Openhost.co.za, 41% (19 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 4% (2 requests) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.7 sec) belongs to the original domain Openhost.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 76.9 kB (15%)

Content Size

508.7 kB

After Optimization

431.7 kB

In fact, the total size of Openhost.co.za main page is 508.7 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 235.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 73.9 kB

  • Original 90.3 kB
  • After minification 85.9 kB
  • After compression 16.4 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. 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 73.9 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 5.9 kB
  • After minification 5.9 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. Open Host images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 2.2 kB

  • Original 235.2 kB
  • After minification 235.2 kB
  • After compression 233.0 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 852 B

  • Original 177.3 kB
  • After minification 177.3 kB
  • After compression 176.4 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. Openhost.co.za has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 19 (76%)

Requests Now

25

After Optimization

6

The browser has sent 25 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Open Host. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 15 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

openhost.co.za accessibility score

88

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

openhost.co.za best practices score

83

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

High

Includes front-end JavaScript libraries with known security vulnerabilities

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

openhost.co.za SEO score

96

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 Openhost.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 Openhost.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 Open Host. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: