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Report Summary

  • 15

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    27% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 90

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    68% of websites

rdm.co.za

BusinessLIVE - Latest news and analysis from SA's business sector

Page Load Speed

446 ms in total

First Response

189 ms

Resources Loaded

192 ms

Page Rendered

65 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Rdm.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 189 ms and then it took 257 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.

Performance Metrics

rdm.co.za performance score

15

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.7 s

59/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value21.9 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.8 s

10/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,420 ms

5/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.282

43/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value20.9 s

2/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

rdm.co.za

189 ms

Our browser made a total of 1 request to load all elements on the main page. We found that all of those requests were addressed to Rdm.co.za and no external sources were called. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (189 ms) belongs to the original domain Rdm.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 524.8 kB (37%)

Content Size

1.4 MB

After Optimization

884.5 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Rdm.co.za main page is 1.4 MB. This result falls within the top 5000 of lightweight and thus fast loading web pages. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 745.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-31%

Potential reduce by 84 B

  • Original 268 B
  • After minification 246 B
  • After compression 184 B

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. HTML code on this page is well minified. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 84 B or 31% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 35.3 kB

  • Original 630.4 kB
  • After minification 595.1 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. Rdm images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-62%

Potential reduce by 462.7 kB

  • Original 745.8 kB
  • After minification 744.6 kB
  • After compression 283.2 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 462.7 kB or 62% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 26.7 kB

  • Original 32.8 kB
  • After minification 24.3 kB
  • After compression 6.0 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. Rdm.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 26.7 kB or 82% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

0

After Optimization

0

Besides the initial HTML request, no CSS, Javascripts, AJAX or image files were requested in the course of web page rendering.

Network Requests Diagram

rdm.co.za

rdm.co.za

189 ms

Accessibility Review

rdm.co.za accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

rdm.co.za best practices score

75

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

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

rdm.co.za SEO score

90

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

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

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

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

rdm.co.za

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