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Report Summary

  • 94

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    93% of other websites

  • 46

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 20% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    20% of websites

  • 67

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    26% of websites

pmbalive.co.za

Welcome to PMBalive - Pietermaritzburg's "Online" Business Directory

Page Load Speed

5 sec in total

First Response

948 ms

Resources Loaded

4 sec

Page Rendered

121 ms

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About Website

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Pietermaritzburg Online Business Directory. Providing business listings for companies located in Pietermaritzburg and information for people wanting to know the latest news and happenings in Pietermar...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Pmbalive.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 948 ms and then it took 4.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 65% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

pmbalive.co.za performance score

94

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.1 s

82/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.3 s

94/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.3 s

75/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value2.1 s

99/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

pmbalive.co.za

948 ms

main.css

310 ms

menubar.css

598 ms

side.css

599 ms

index_01.gif

664 ms

Our browser made a total of 44 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 95% of them (42 requests) were addressed to the original Pmbalive.co.za, 2% (1 request) were made to Hit-counter-download.com and 2% (1 request) were made to Ww25.hit-counter-download.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.3 sec) belongs to the original domain Pmbalive.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 14.4 kB (13%)

Content Size

113.9 kB

After Optimization

99.6 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Pmbalive.co.za main page is 113.9 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 95.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 14.0 kB

  • Original 18.6 kB
  • After minification 16.3 kB
  • After compression 4.6 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 2.3 kB, which is 12% of the original size. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 14.0 kB or 75% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 344 B

  • Original 95.0 kB
  • After minification 94.6 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. PMBalive images are well optimized though.

CSS Optimization

-18%

Potential reduce by 64 B

  • Original 357 B
  • After minification 347 B
  • After compression 293 B

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. Pmbalive.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 64 B or 18% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 8 (19%)

Requests Now

42

After Optimization

34

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • CSS

The browser has sent 42 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of PMBalive. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

pmbalive.co.za

pmbalive.co.za

948 ms

main.css

main.css

310 ms

menubar.css

menubar.css

598 ms

side.css

side.css

599 ms

index_01.gif

index_01.gif

664 ms

counter.pl

counter.pl

273 ms

bg.gif

bg.gif

307 ms

index_02.gif

index_02.gif

306 ms

PMB-Heading4.jpg

PMB-Heading4.jpg

883 ms

index_13.gif

index_13.gif

300 ms

Menu-Bar_01.jpg

Menu-Bar_01.jpg

602 ms

Menu-Bar_02.jpg

Menu-Bar_02.jpg

604 ms

Menu-Bar_03.jpg

Menu-Bar_03.jpg

612 ms

Menu-Bar_04.jpg

Menu-Bar_04.jpg

613 ms

Menu-Bar_05.jpg

Menu-Bar_05.jpg

621 ms

Menu-Bar_06.jpg

Menu-Bar_06.jpg

903 ms

index_30.gif

index_30.gif

906 ms

Button-Head1b.jpg

Button-Head1b.jpg

917 ms

Button-Head2b.jpg

Button-Head2b.jpg

918 ms

IOL-Stories.jpg

IOL-Stories.jpg

933 ms

IOL-Sport.jpg

IOL-Sport.jpg

1178 ms

IOL-Weather.jpg

IOL-Weather.jpg

1201 ms

IOL-Jobs.jpg

IOL-Jobs.jpg

1209 ms

Daily-News.jpg

Daily-News.jpg

1222 ms

Busrep.jpg

Busrep.jpg

1225 ms

Motoring.jpg

Motoring.jpg

1243 ms

index_46.gif

index_46.gif

1473 ms

Button-Head3b.jpg

Button-Head3b.jpg

1500 ms

Links.jpg

Links.jpg

1511 ms

index_53.gif

index_53.gif

1527 ms

index_20.gif

index_20.gif

1531 ms

index_32.gif

index_32.gif

1554 ms

Right_Head1.jpg

Right_Head1.jpg

1768 ms

live-banner.gif

live-banner.gif

1799 ms

Advert-Block.gif

Advert-Block.gif

2113 ms

Advert-Block4.gif

Advert-Block4.gif

2133 ms

Advert-Block2.gif

Advert-Block2.gif

2140 ms

Advert-Block5.gif

Advert-Block5.gif

1864 ms

Advert-Block7.gif

Advert-Block7.gif

2063 ms

Advert-Block6.gif

Advert-Block6.gif

2097 ms

PMB-Business-DirHead.jpg

PMB-Business-DirHead.jpg

2143 ms

sidebarbgnd.gif

sidebarbgnd.gif

2325 ms

counter.pl

counter.pl

74 ms

index_55.gif

index_55.gif

2102 ms

Accessibility Review

pmbalive.co.za accessibility score

46

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

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

pmbalive.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

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

pmbalive.co.za SEO score

67

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

    WINDOWS-1251

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Pmbalive.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 Pmbalive.co.za main page’s claimed encoding is windows-1251. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

pmbalive.co.za

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of PMBalive. 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: