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Report Summary

  • 87

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    90% of other websites

  • 93

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 82% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    95% of websites

poolbuilders.co.za

Swimming Pools - Find reputable pool builders near you

Page Load Speed

16.6 sec in total

First Response

3.3 sec

Resources Loaded

11.9 sec

Page Rendered

1.4 sec

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Poolbuilders.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 3.3 sec and then it took 13.3 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

poolbuilders.co.za performance score

87

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.2 s

76/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.3 s

94/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value10.4 s

8/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.001

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value2.3 s

99/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

poolbuilders.co.za

3327 ms

bricks.min.js

786 ms

photoswipe.umd.min.js

1555 ms

photoswipe-lightbox.umd.min.js

1119 ms

lazyload.min.js

1220 ms

Our browser made a total of 64 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 94% of them (60 requests) were addressed to the original Poolbuilders.co.za, 3% (2 requests) were made to New.poolbuilders.co.za and 2% (1 request) were made to Maps.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (5.4 sec) belongs to the original domain Poolbuilders.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 159.8 kB (12%)

Content Size

1.3 MB

After Optimization

1.2 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript

In fact, the total size of Poolbuilders.co.za main page is 1.3 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. 35% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 842.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 159.1 kB

  • Original 196.2 kB
  • After minification 195.9 kB
  • After compression 37.1 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 159.1 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 842.7 kB
  • After minification 842.7 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. Pool Builders images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 669 B

  • Original 297.0 kB
  • After minification 297.0 kB
  • After compression 296.3 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 27 (49%)

Requests Now

55

After Optimization

28

  • Images
  • JavaScript

The browser has sent 55 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Pool Builders. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 28 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

poolbuilders.co.za

poolbuilders.co.za

3327 ms

bricks.min.js

bricks.min.js

786 ms

photoswipe.umd.min.js

photoswipe.umd.min.js

1555 ms

photoswipe-lightbox.umd.min.js

photoswipe-lightbox.umd.min.js

1119 ms

lazyload.min.js

lazyload.min.js

1220 ms

pminstantpage.min.js

pminstantpage.min.js

1157 ms

prettify.min.js

prettify.min.js

1197 ms

frontend.js

frontend.js

1208 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

1942 ms

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1561 ms

wp-polyfill-inert.min.js

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1601 ms

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2402 ms

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1943 ms

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1967 ms

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1991 ms

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2004 ms

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2725 ms

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2335 ms

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2370 ms

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2382 ms

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2411 ms

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multi.step.js

2726 ms

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jquery-editable-select.js

2773 ms

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2771 ms

js

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116 ms

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jquery.inputmask.min.js

3212 ms

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85 ms

frontend.js

frontend.js

2811 ms

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3109 ms

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3490 ms

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3885 ms

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2602 ms

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4216 ms

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4911 ms

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3867 ms

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3846 ms

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3901 ms

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4197 ms

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3912 ms

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4044 ms

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4171 ms

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4176 ms

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3926 ms

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4095 ms

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4103 ms

Accessibility Review

poolbuilders.co.za accessibility score

93

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

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Lists do not contain only <li> elements and script supporting elements (<script> and <template>).

Best Practices

poolbuilders.co.za best practices score

92

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

poolbuilders.co.za SEO score

100

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Poolbuilders.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 Poolbuilders.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

poolbuilders.co.za

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