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Report Summary

  • 20

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    37% of other websites

  • 88

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 68% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    83% of websites

pwc.co.za

PwC South Africa | Homepage

Page Load Speed

4 sec in total

First Response

881 ms

Resources Loaded

2.8 sec

Page Rendered

277 ms

pwc.co.za screenshot

About Website

Welcome to pwc.co.za homepage info - get ready to check PwC best content for South Africa right away, or after learning these important things about pwc.co.za

PwC Southern Africa provides industry-focused assurance, advisory and tax services to public, private and government clients in all markets.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Pwc.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 881 ms and then it took 3.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 55% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

pwc.co.za performance score

20

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.7 s

28/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value12.9 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.3 s

12/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,430 ms

2/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.017

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value27.3 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

pwc.co.za

881 ms

www.pwc.co.za

1305 ms

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14 ms

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25 ms

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60 ms

Our browser made a total of 58 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 88% of them (51 requests) were addressed to the original Pwc.co.za, 3% (2 requests) were made to Pwc.com and 3% (2 requests) were made to Youtube.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.3 sec) belongs to the original domain Pwc.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 716.5 kB (22%)

Content Size

3.2 MB

After Optimization

2.5 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Pwc.co.za main page is 3.2 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. Javascripts take 1.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 397.8 kB

  • Original 484.9 kB
  • After minification 418.7 kB
  • After compression 87.1 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 66.3 kB, which is 14% 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 397.8 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 26.6 kB

  • Original 972.7 kB
  • After minification 946.1 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. PwC images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-11%

Potential reduce by 157.6 kB

  • Original 1.4 MB
  • After minification 1.4 MB
  • After compression 1.3 MB

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 157.6 kB or 11% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-46%

Potential reduce by 134.5 kB

  • Original 295.5 kB
  • After minification 293.4 kB
  • After compression 161.0 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. Pwc.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 134.5 kB or 46% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 27 (51%)

Requests Now

53

After Optimization

26

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 53 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of PwC. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 21 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

pwc.co.za

pwc.co.za

881 ms

www.pwc.co.za

www.pwc.co.za

1305 ms

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25 ms

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60 ms

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38 ms

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36 ms

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64 ms

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55 ms

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76 ms

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221 ms

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167 ms

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191 ms

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186 ms

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189 ms

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187 ms

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133 ms

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134 ms

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134 ms

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133 ms

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236 ms

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214 ms

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214 ms

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215 ms

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225 ms

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12 ms

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121 ms

Accessibility Review

pwc.co.za accessibility score

88

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

[aria-*] attributes do not match their roles

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

High

Some elements have a [tabindex] value greater than 0

Best Practices

pwc.co.za best practices score

83

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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

pwc.co.za SEO score

93

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

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

    ISO-8859-1

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

pwc.co.za

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