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Report Summary

  • 35

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    55% of other websites

  • 65

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 30% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    83% of websites

paragon.co.za

PARAGON GROUP : The Architecture Company - Architects & Interiors | Paragon Architects, Paragon Interface, Paragon Architects South Africa

Page Load Speed

6.2 sec in total

First Response

941 ms

Resources Loaded

5.2 sec

Page Rendered

77 ms

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About Website

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

Paragon Architects is an internationally-active African design business, based in Johannesburg, South Africa. It is the originator of the Paragon Group of design businesses, delivering commercial arch...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Paragon.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 941 ms and then it took 5.3 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

paragon.co.za performance score

35

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.9 s

1/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.2 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value13.4 s

2/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value390 ms

69/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.132

81/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value12.3 s

15/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

paragon.co.za

941 ms

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1386 ms

fbevents.js

33 ms

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318 ms

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630 ms

Our browser made a total of 39 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 72% of them (28 requests) were addressed to the original Paragon.co.za, 8% (3 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com and 5% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.5 sec) belongs to the original domain Paragon.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 82.9 kB (28%)

Content Size

299.3 kB

After Optimization

216.4 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Paragon.co.za main page is 299.3 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. 25% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 155.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 25.7 kB

  • Original 33.9 kB
  • After minification 32.8 kB
  • After compression 8.2 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 25.7 kB or 76% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-26%

Potential reduce by 11.0 kB

  • Original 41.7 kB
  • After minification 30.7 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. Obviously, PARAGON needs image optimization as it can save up to 11.0 kB or 26% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-30%

Potential reduce by 46.1 kB

  • Original 155.4 kB
  • After minification 155.4 kB
  • After compression 109.3 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 46.1 kB or 30% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 90 B

  • Original 68.3 kB
  • After minification 68.3 kB
  • After compression 68.2 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. Paragon.co.za has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 23 (66%)

Requests Now

35

After Optimization

12

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 35 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of PARAGON. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 16 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

paragon.co.za

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941 ms

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1386 ms

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33 ms

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318 ms

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630 ms

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1518 ms

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1223 ms

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928 ms

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1235 ms

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938 ms

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939 ms

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1235 ms

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112 ms

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158 ms

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143 ms

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1249 ms

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1249 ms

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1537 ms

css

css

38 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

72 ms

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font

80 ms

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group1.png

312 ms

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304 ms

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310 ms

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307 ms

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313 ms

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310 ms

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607 ms

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612 ms

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617 ms

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618 ms

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608 ms

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610 ms

collect

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13 ms

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841 ms

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1160 ms

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48 ms

29 ms

Accessibility Review

paragon.co.za accessibility score

65

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

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

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

paragon.co.za best practices score

67

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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

paragon.co.za SEO score

93

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

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Paragon.co.za can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Paragon.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

paragon.co.za

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