Report Summary

  • 9

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    23% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

root.pastel.co.za

Accounting Software | Business Software | Sage Pastel

Page Load Speed

404 ms in total

First Response

151 ms

Resources Loaded

191 ms

Page Rendered

62 ms

root.pastel.co.za screenshot

About Website

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

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Key Findings

We analyzed Root.pastel.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 151 ms and then it took 253 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is an excellent result, as only a small number of websites can load faster. This domain responded with an error, which can significantly jeopardize Root.pastel.co.za rating and web reputation

Performance Metrics

root.pastel.co.za performance score

9

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.8 s

12/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value17.4 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.9 s

10/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,340 ms

2/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.303

39/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value20.3 s

2/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

root.pastel.co.za

151 ms

cf.errors.css

7 ms

browser-bar.png

3 ms

cf-no-screenshot-error.png

6 ms

Our browser made a total of 4 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that all of those requests were addressed to Root.pastel.co.za and no external sources were called. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (151 ms) belongs to the original domain Root.pastel.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 2.9 kB (23%)

Content Size

12.9 kB

After Optimization

10.0 kB

In fact, the total size of Root.pastel.co.za main page is 12.9 kB. This result falls within a vast category (top 1 000 000) of heavyweight, probably not optimized, and thus slow loading web pages. Only 5% of websites need less resources to load. CSS take 4.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-64%

Potential reduce by 2.9 kB

  • Original 4.5 kB
  • After minification 4.0 kB
  • After compression 1.6 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 474 B, which is 11% 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 2.9 kB or 64% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 5 B

  • Original 3.9 kB
  • After minification 3.9 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. Root Pastel images are well optimized though.

CSS Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 75 B

  • Original 4.5 kB
  • After minification 4.5 kB
  • After compression 4.4 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. Root.pastel.co.za has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

3

After Optimization

3

The browser has sent 3 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Root Pastel. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Accessibility Review

root.pastel.co.za accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

root.pastel.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

root.pastel.co.za SEO score

86

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

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 Root.pastel.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 Root.pastel.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 Root Pastel. 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: