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Report Summary

  • 16

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    30% of other websites

  • 81

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 51% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 79

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    40% of websites

propertycentral.co.za

Find Property For Sale, Property For Rent in South Africa. Free Property Listings

Page Load Speed

4.2 sec in total

First Response

34 ms

Resources Loaded

3 sec

Page Rendered

1.1 sec

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About Website

Visit propertycentral.co.za now to see the best up-to-date Property Central content for South Africa and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about propertycentral.co.za

Property Central is SA's fastest growing property website. We list properties for Sale or Rent from All over SA. Find Private Property listings and Agency Listings. Flats, Houses for Sale and Rent...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Propertycentral.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 34 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

propertycentral.co.za performance score

16

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.7 s

5/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value23.4 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value26.8 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value10,840 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.002

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value57.1 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

propertycentral.co.za

34 ms

propertycentral.co.za

1711 ms

css2

82 ms

pc-styles.css

85 ms

pc-styles-extended.css

118 ms

Our browser made a total of 87 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 68% of them (59 requests) were addressed to the original Propertycentral.co.za, 6% (5 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 5% (4 requests) were made to P16-sign-va.tiktokcdn.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.7 sec) belongs to the original domain Propertycentral.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 2.2 MB (15%)

Content Size

14.1 MB

After Optimization

12.0 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Propertycentral.co.za main page is 14.1 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. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Images take 12.9 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 271.3 kB

  • Original 323.2 kB
  • After minification 226.3 kB
  • After compression 51.9 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 96.9 kB, which is 30% 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 271.3 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-10%

Potential reduce by 1.3 MB

  • Original 12.9 MB
  • After minification 11.6 MB

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. Property Central images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-21%

Potential reduce by 55.4 kB

  • Original 266.4 kB
  • After minification 265.7 kB
  • After compression 211.0 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 55.4 kB or 21% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 537.2 kB

  • Original 628.1 kB
  • After minification 623.7 kB
  • After compression 90.9 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. Propertycentral.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 537.2 kB or 86% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 37 (47%)

Requests Now

79

After Optimization

42

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 79 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Property Central. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 30 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 9 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

propertycentral.co.za

propertycentral.co.za

34 ms

propertycentral.co.za

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1711 ms

css2

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82 ms

pc-styles.css

pc-styles.css

85 ms

pc-styles-extended.css

pc-styles-extended.css

118 ms

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swiper-bundle.min.css

73 ms

modernizr-2.8.1.min.js

modernizr-2.8.1.min.js

129 ms

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114 ms

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118 ms

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jquery-ui.css

74 ms

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178 ms

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189 ms

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479 ms

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114 ms

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213 ms

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213 ms

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216 ms

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184 ms

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226 ms

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234 ms

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233 ms

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232 ms

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80 ms

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233 ms

embed.js

embed.js

135 ms

email-decode.min.js

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188 ms

main.js

main.js

401 ms

runtime.js

runtime.js

399 ms

swiper-bundle.min.js

swiper-bundle.min.js

34 ms

swiper.js

swiper.js

399 ms

variables.js

variables.js

398 ms

jquery-ui.js

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35 ms

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399 ms

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602 ms

hubs

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601 ms

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186 ms

css2

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34 ms

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301 ms

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303 ms

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604 ms

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Accessibility Review

propertycentral.co.za accessibility score

81

Accessibility Issues

Contrast

These are opportunities to improve the legibility of your content.

Impact

Issue

High

Background and foreground colors do not have a sufficient contrast ratio.

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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

propertycentral.co.za best practices score

67

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

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

propertycentral.co.za SEO score

79

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

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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

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 Propertycentral.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 Propertycentral.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

propertycentral.co.za

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