Report Summary

  • 20

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    37% of other websites

  • 81

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 51% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 77

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    36% of websites

pestcontrol-capetown.co.za

Dead Easy Pest Control | Effective & Environmentally Friendly | Cape Town

Page Load Speed

16.8 sec in total

First Response

784 ms

Resources Loaded

15.5 sec

Page Rendered

450 ms

pestcontrol-capetown.co.za screenshot

About Website

Click here to check amazing Pest Control Cape Town content. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about pestcontrol-capetown.co.za

We offer low impact, environmentally friendly pest control services. Fast & 100% effective, our products are safe for children and pets.

Visit pestcontrol-capetown.co.za

Key Findings

We analyzed Pestcontrol-capetown.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 784 ms and then it took 16 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 90% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

pestcontrol-capetown.co.za performance score

20

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.2 s

3/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value19.0 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value15.9 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,100 ms

23/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.131

81/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value19.1 s

3/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

pestcontrol-capetown.co.za

784 ms

www.pestcontrol-capetown.co.za

1575 ms

wp-notification-bars-public.css

255 ms

global.min.css

511 ms

style.css

1014 ms

Our browser made a total of 108 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 76% of them (82 requests) were addressed to the original Pestcontrol-capetown.co.za, 6% (7 requests) were made to Lh3.googleusercontent.com and 5% (5 requests) were made to Use.fontawesome.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (8.4 sec) belongs to the original domain Pestcontrol-capetown.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 198.6 kB (8%)

Content Size

2.5 MB

After Optimization

2.3 MB

In fact, the total size of Pestcontrol-capetown.co.za main page is 2.5 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 1.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 141.3 kB

  • Original 174.8 kB
  • After minification 169.0 kB
  • After compression 33.5 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 141.3 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 31.3 kB

  • Original 1.4 MB
  • After minification 1.4 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. Pest Control Cape Town images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 12.1 kB

  • Original 635.7 kB
  • After minification 635.7 kB
  • After compression 623.6 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

-6%

Potential reduce by 13.8 kB

  • Original 228.9 kB
  • After minification 228.2 kB
  • After compression 215.0 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. Pestcontrol-capetown.co.za has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 78 (79%)

Requests Now

99

After Optimization

21

The browser has sent 99 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Pest Control Cape Town. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 43 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 30 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

pestcontrol-capetown.co.za accessibility score

81

Accessibility Issues

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Best Practices

pestcontrol-capetown.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

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

pestcontrol-capetown.co.za SEO score

77

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

Links do not have descriptive text

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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

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 Pestcontrol-capetown.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 Pestcontrol-capetown.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 Pest Control Cape Town. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: