Report Summary

  • 19

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    35% of other websites

  • 76

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 42% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 83

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    46% of websites

saaffi.co.za

SAAFFI - South African Association of the Flavour & Fragrance Industry

Page Load Speed

8.4 sec in total

First Response

2 sec

Resources Loaded

6.1 sec

Page Rendered

329 ms

saaffi.co.za screenshot

About Website

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

Home of The Flavour and Fragrance Industry in South Africa. SAAFFI is a Member of IOFI and IFRA, This group has grown to over 50 companies.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Saaffi.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 2 sec and then it took 6.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 80% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

saaffi.co.za performance score

19

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value7.2 s

1/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value19.7 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value16.0 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,490 ms

14/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.001

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value22.1 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

saaffi.co.za

1968 ms

uc.js

47 ms

js

80 ms

eMember_style.css

107 ms

jquery.fileuploader.css

214 ms

Our browser made a total of 148 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 84% of them (125 requests) were addressed to the original Saaffi.co.za, 3% (5 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 3% (4 requests) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2 sec) belongs to the original domain Saaffi.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 211.9 kB (6%)

Content Size

3.4 MB

After Optimization

3.2 MB

In fact, the total size of Saaffi.co.za main page is 3.4 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 1.8 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 172.0 kB

  • Original 207.5 kB
  • After minification 202.0 kB
  • After compression 35.5 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. 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 172.0 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 1.1 kB

  • Original 1.8 MB
  • After minification 1.8 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. SAAFFI images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 24.8 kB

  • Original 1.1 MB
  • After minification 1.1 MB
  • After compression 1.1 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 14.1 kB

  • Original 227.2 kB
  • After minification 227.2 kB
  • After compression 213.1 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. Saaffi.co.za has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 108 (76%)

Requests Now

143

After Optimization

35

The browser has sent 143 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of SAAFFI. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 86 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 24 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

saaffi.co.za accessibility score

76

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

[id] attributes on active, focusable elements are not unique

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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

saaffi.co.za best practices score

75

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

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

saaffi.co.za SEO score

83

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

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