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Report Summary

  • 99

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    96% of other websites

  • 58

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 25% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 67

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    26% of websites

promoafrica.co.za

: Welcome : Promo Africa - Promotional gifts and clothing

Page Load Speed

22.3 sec in total

First Response

766 ms

Resources Loaded

21.4 sec

Page Rendered

122 ms

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About Website

Click here to check amazing Promo Africa content. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about promoafrica.co.za

Promo Africa, promotional and corporate gifts, clothing, bags, information on product range, company history and specials

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Key Findings

We analyzed Promoafrica.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 766 ms and then it took 21.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 95% of websites can load faster. Unfortunately, there was 1 request timeout, which can generally increase the web page load time, as the browser stays idle while waiting for website response.

Performance Metrics

promoafrica.co.za performance score

99

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value0.8 s

100/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.0 s

97/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value2.3 s

98/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value0.8 s

100/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

promoafrica.co.za

766 ms

style.css

262 ms

bg_fade.gif

273 ms

bg_navbar.png

500 ms

but_home_up.gif

501 ms

Our browser made a total of 20 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 95% of them (19 requests) were addressed to the original Promoafrica.co.za, 5% (1 request) were made to Cdn.googletoolservices.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (20.3 sec) relates to the external source Cdn.googletoolservices.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 30.7 kB (18%)

Content Size

168.5 kB

After Optimization

137.8 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Promoafrica.co.za main page is 168.5 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. 15% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 159.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-68%

Potential reduce by 6.2 kB

  • Original 9.1 kB
  • After minification 8.8 kB
  • After compression 2.9 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 6.2 kB or 68% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-15%

Potential reduce by 24.4 kB

  • Original 159.0 kB
  • After minification 134.7 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. Obviously, Promo Africa needs image optimization as it can save up to 24.4 kB or 15% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

CSS Optimization

-34%

Potential reduce by 123 B

  • Original 365 B
  • After minification 365 B
  • After compression 242 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. Promoafrica.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 123 B or 34% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

18

After Optimization

18

  • Images
  • CSS

The browser has sent 18 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Promo Africa. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Network Requests Diagram

promoafrica.co.za

promoafrica.co.za

766 ms

style.css

style.css

262 ms

bg_fade.gif

bg_fade.gif

273 ms

bg_navbar.png

bg_navbar.png

500 ms

but_home_up.gif

but_home_up.gif

501 ms

but_about_up.gif

but_about_up.gif

504 ms

but_clothing_up.gif

but_clothing_up.gif

521 ms

but_gifts_up.gif

but_gifts_up.gif

1019 ms

but_specials_up.gif

but_specials_up.gif

537 ms

but_contact_up.gif

but_contact_up.gif

750 ms

bg_welcome.png

bg_welcome.png

751 ms

photo_manageress.jpg

photo_manageress.jpg

757 ms

bg_main_image.png

bg_main_image.png

1036 ms

home_man.png

home_man.png

1300 ms

bg_specials.png

bg_specials.png

1000 ms

bg_products.png

bg_products.png

1001 ms

Promo_Africa_logo.png

Promo_Africa_logo.png

1260 ms

blank290.gif

blank290.gif

1251 ms

GDL_logo.png

GDL_logo.png

1252 ms

jquery-ui.js

jquery-ui.js

20335 ms

Accessibility Review

promoafrica.co.za accessibility score

58

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

promoafrica.co.za best practices score

67

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

SEO Factors

promoafrica.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

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Promoafrica.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 Promoafrica.co.za main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. 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

promoafrica.co.za

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