Report Summary

  • 12

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    25% of other websites

  • 89

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 72% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 79

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    40% of websites

qphoto.co.za

Photo Books | Canvas Printing | Order Prints Online - Q-Photo

Page Load Speed

14.5 sec in total

First Response

2.1 sec

Resources Loaded

11.9 sec

Page Rendered

488 ms

qphoto.co.za screenshot

About Website

Click here to check amazing Q Photo content for South Africa. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about qphoto.co.za

Q-Photo, your trusted memory merchant since 1984. You can trust Q-Photo with your special moments, the "Q" in our name is for "Quality" and we have a proud tradition of delivering beautifully crafted ...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Qphoto.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 2.1 sec and then it took 12.4 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

qphoto.co.za performance score

12

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.1 s

3/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.5 s

4/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value20.5 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value18,740 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.156

74/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value59.1 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.qphoto.co.za

2090 ms

98fa6748b0b6e7b338c52a4784b17736.75.css

1247 ms

a28824d9a0ada495aebd6b83f37ab8cf.75.js

1686 ms

jquery.fancybox.css

492 ms

skin.css

971 ms

Our browser made a total of 106 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 85% of them (90 requests) were addressed to the original Qphoto.co.za, 5% (5 requests) were made to Maps.google.com and 2% (2 requests) were made to Stats.g.doubleclick.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (8 sec) belongs to the original domain Qphoto.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 2.0 MB (40%)

Content Size

5.0 MB

After Optimization

3.0 MB

In fact, the total size of Qphoto.co.za main page is 5.0 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. 75% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Images take 2.5 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-64%

Potential reduce by 98.8 kB

  • Original 154.5 kB
  • After minification 126.8 kB
  • After compression 55.7 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 27.7 kB, which is 18% 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 98.8 kB or 64% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 116.0 kB

  • Original 2.5 MB
  • After minification 2.3 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. Q Photo images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-72%

Potential reduce by 1.3 MB

  • Original 1.8 MB
  • After minification 1.7 MB
  • After compression 517.3 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 1.3 MB or 72% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 469.4 kB

  • Original 544.8 kB
  • After minification 476.7 kB
  • After compression 75.4 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. Qphoto.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 469.4 kB or 86% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 45 (45%)

Requests Now

100

After Optimization

55

The browser has sent 100 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Q Photo. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 29 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

qphoto.co.za accessibility score

89

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.

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Lists do not contain only <li> elements and script supporting elements (<script> and <template>).

High

List items (<li>) are not contained within <ul> or <ol> parent elements.

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

qphoto.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

SEO Factors

qphoto.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

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

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 Qphoto.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 Qphoto.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 Q Photo. 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: