Report Summary

  • 21

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    39% of other websites

  • 90

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 75% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 65

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    25% of websites

providencesoftware.co.za

Providence Software Solutions

Page Load Speed

11.6 sec in total

First Response

1.2 sec

Resources Loaded

8.6 sec

Page Rendered

1.8 sec

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Key Findings

We analyzed Providencesoftware.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 1.2 sec and then it took 10.4 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

providencesoftware.co.za performance score

21

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.7 s

13/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value18.7 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value21.3 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,510 ms

14/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value19.1 s

3/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

providencesoftware.co.za

1161 ms

font-awesome.css

657 ms

style.css

682 ms

bootstrap.min.css

987 ms

slick.css

617 ms

Our browser made a total of 145 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 57% of them (82 requests) were addressed to the original Providencesoftware.co.za, 24% (35 requests) were made to Maps.googleapis.com and 6% (9 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (3.9 sec) belongs to the original domain Providencesoftware.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.4 MB (22%)

Content Size

6.3 MB

After Optimization

4.9 MB

In fact, the total size of Providencesoftware.co.za main page is 6.3 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 4.6 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 115.2 kB

  • Original 135.1 kB
  • After minification 117.5 kB
  • After compression 19.9 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 17.6 kB, which is 13% 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 115.2 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 199.2 kB

  • Original 4.6 MB
  • After minification 4.5 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. Providence Software images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-71%

Potential reduce by 753.3 kB

  • Original 1.1 MB
  • After minification 976.1 kB
  • After compression 312.2 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 753.3 kB or 71% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-68%

Potential reduce by 294.6 kB

  • Original 433.0 kB
  • After minification 397.3 kB
  • After compression 138.4 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. Providencesoftware.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 294.6 kB or 68% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 42 (32%)

Requests Now

133

After Optimization

91

The browser has sent 133 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Providence Software. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 34 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 10 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

providencesoftware.co.za accessibility score

90

Accessibility Issues

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

providencesoftware.co.za best practices score

83

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

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

providencesoftware.co.za SEO score

65

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

High

Page is blocked from indexing

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

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

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

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 Providencesoftware.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 Providencesoftware.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

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