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Report Summary

  • 24

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    43% of other websites

  • 90

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 74% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    20% of websites

  • 81

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    42% of websites

pickfords.co.za

Furniture Removals (Moving Company) - Removal Services - Pickfords Removals

Page Load Speed

5.1 sec in total

First Response

409 ms

Resources Loaded

4.4 sec

Page Rendered

259 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Pickfords.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 409 ms and then it took 4.7 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

pickfords.co.za performance score

24

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value7.4 s

1/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value11.6 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value12.9 s

2/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value720 ms

41/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.168

71/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value15.3 s

7/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

pickfords.co.za

409 ms

www.pickfords.co.za

1509 ms

font-awesome.min.css

27 ms

wgs2.css

230 ms

wgs3.css

236 ms

Our browser made a total of 159 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 82% of them (130 requests) were addressed to the original Pickfords.co.za, 6% (9 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 3% (5 requests) were made to Google.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.5 sec) belongs to the original domain Pickfords.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 335.6 kB (22%)

Content Size

1.5 MB

After Optimization

1.2 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Pickfords.co.za main page is 1.5 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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 745.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 107.5 kB

  • Original 133.3 kB
  • After minification 129.0 kB
  • After compression 25.7 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 107.5 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 2.1 kB

  • Original 745.7 kB
  • After minification 743.6 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. Pickfords images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-39%

Potential reduce by 209.9 kB

  • Original 540.2 kB
  • After minification 540.2 kB
  • After compression 330.3 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 209.9 kB or 39% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-21%

Potential reduce by 16.1 kB

  • Original 75.2 kB
  • After minification 74.9 kB
  • After compression 59.1 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. Pickfords.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 16.1 kB or 21% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 111 (78%)

Requests Now

142

After Optimization

31

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 142 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Pickfords. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 38 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 48 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

pickfords.co.za

pickfords.co.za

409 ms

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Accessibility Review

pickfords.co.za accessibility score

90

Accessibility Issues

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

pickfords.co.za best practices score

58

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

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

pickfords.co.za SEO score

81

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

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 Pickfords.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 Pickfords.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

pickfords.co.za

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