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Report Summary

  • 84

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    88% of other websites

  • 57

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 24% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    20% of websites

  • 69

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    28% of websites

pixie-it.co.za

Pixie IT - For all your IT and Consumer Electronic Requirements

Page Load Speed

15.9 sec in total

First Response

2.1 sec

Resources Loaded

13.7 sec

Page Rendered

131 ms

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About Website

Visit pixie-it.co.za now to see the best up-to-date Pixie IT content and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about pixie-it.co.za

Pixie IT is an Information Technology Company based in Gauteng, South Africa. We sell Notebooks/Laptops, Desktops, Software, Components and Consumables online. We also provided PC Support and Maintena...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Pixie-it.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 2.1 sec and then it took 13.8 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

pixie-it.co.za performance score

84

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.1 s

81/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.5 s

89/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value12.9 s

2/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value40 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.084

93/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value2.2 s

99/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

pixie-it.co.za

2074 ms

www.pixieit.co.za

8794 ms

Style_640.css

621 ms

FixIE6Flicker.js

930 ms

StyleSheets.js

1212 ms

Our browser made a total of 38 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 3% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Pixie-it.co.za, 97% (37 requests) were made to Pixieit.co.za. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (8.8 sec) relates to the external source Pixieit.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 76.2 kB (43%)

Content Size

178.1 kB

After Optimization

101.9 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Pixie-it.co.za main page is 178.1 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. 20% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 100.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-89%

Potential reduce by 27.7 kB

  • Original 31.2 kB
  • After minification 28.2 kB
  • After compression 3.5 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 27.7 kB or 89% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-9%

Potential reduce by 9.0 kB

  • Original 100.8 kB
  • After minification 91.8 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. Pixie IT images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 19.2 kB

  • Original 22.7 kB
  • After minification 16.0 kB
  • After compression 3.5 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 19.2 kB or 84% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 20.4 kB

  • Original 23.5 kB
  • After minification 18.6 kB
  • After compression 3.1 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. Pixie-it.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 20.4 kB or 87% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 20 (56%)

Requests Now

36

After Optimization

16

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 36 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Pixie IT. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 5 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

pixie-it.co.za

pixie-it.co.za

2074 ms

www.pixieit.co.za

www.pixieit.co.za

8794 ms

Style_640.css

Style_640.css

621 ms

FixIE6Flicker.js

FixIE6Flicker.js

930 ms

StyleSheets.js

StyleSheets.js

1212 ms

Functions.js

Functions.js

1219 ms

Validators.js

Validators.js

1234 ms

PageValidators.js

PageValidators.js

1240 ms

Style_1024.css

Style_1024.css

317 ms

TopBack.gif

TopBack.gif

314 ms

ShopLogo.gif

ShopLogo.gif

309 ms

BackedArrow.gif

BackedArrow.gif

317 ms

TopMenuBack.gif

TopMenuBack.gif

308 ms

CatalogHead231.jpg

CatalogHead231.jpg

317 ms

CatalogMiddle231.jpg

CatalogMiddle231.jpg

312 ms

catalogseperator231.jpg

catalogseperator231.jpg

611 ms

CatalogTail231.jpg

CatalogTail231.jpg

619 ms

SearchPip.gif

SearchPip.gif

622 ms

CatalogHead.jpg

CatalogHead.jpg

618 ms

CatalogMiddle.jpg

CatalogMiddle.jpg

630 ms

CatalogTail.jpg

CatalogTail.jpg

631 ms

CatalogPip.gif

CatalogPip.gif

914 ms

TopLeftBorder.jpg

TopLeftBorder.jpg

922 ms

TopBorder.jpg

TopBorder.jpg

926 ms

TopRightBorder.jpg

TopRightBorder.jpg

929 ms

LeftBorder.jpg

LeftBorder.jpg

946 ms

SubBack.gif

SubBack.gif

948 ms

YellowPre.gif

YellowPre.gif

1216 ms

Products.jpg

Products.jpg

1227 ms

InternetAccess.jpg

InternetAccess.jpg

1231 ms

Support.jpg

Support.jpg

1238 ms

Hosting.jpg

Hosting.jpg

1260 ms

RightBorder.jpg

RightBorder.jpg

1262 ms

BottomLeftBorder.jpg

BottomLeftBorder.jpg

1518 ms

BottomBorder.jpg

BottomBorder.jpg

1530 ms

BottomRightBorder.jpg

BottomRightBorder.jpg

1538 ms

BottomMenuBack.gif

BottomMenuBack.gif

1547 ms

TransferSession.aspx

TransferSession.aspx

1589 ms

Accessibility Review

pixie-it.co.za accessibility score

57

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

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

Best Practices

pixie-it.co.za best practices score

58

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

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

pixie-it.co.za SEO score

69

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

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 Pixie-it.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 Pixie-it.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

pixie-it.co.za

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Pixie IT. Lack of Open Graph description can be counter-productive for their social media presence, as such a description allows converting a website homepage (or other pages) into good-looking, rich and well-structured posts, when it is being shared on Facebook and other social media. For example, adding the following code snippet into HTML <head> tag will help to represent this web page correctly in social networks: