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Report Summary

  • 33

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    53% of other websites

  • 58

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 25% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 58

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    20% of websites

saairforce.co.za

The South African Air Force

Page Load Speed

6.8 sec in total

First Response

800 ms

Resources Loaded

5.9 sec

Page Rendered

130 ms

saairforce.co.za screenshot

About Website

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

Privately run, unofficial website on the South African Air Force. It is maintained by myself during my (limited) spare time so please read the Disclaimer. I hope you enjoy the experience and visit aga...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Saairforce.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 800 ms and then it took 6 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

saairforce.co.za performance score

33

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.0 s

49/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.0 s

28/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value11.0 s

6/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,050 ms

25/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.154

75/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value12.0 s

16/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

saairforce.co.za

800 ms

www.saairforce.co.za

3201 ms

sIFR-screen.css

499 ms

default.css

501 ms

ai_lib.js

499 ms

Our browser made a total of 71 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 66% of them (47 requests) were addressed to the original Saairforce.co.za, 8% (6 requests) were made to Pagead2.googlesyndication.com and 7% (5 requests) were made to Tpc.googlesyndication.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (3.2 sec) belongs to the original domain Saairforce.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 122.6 kB (18%)

Content Size

700.2 kB

After Optimization

577.6 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Saairforce.co.za main page is 700.2 kB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 50% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 408.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 36.4 kB

  • Original 48.6 kB
  • After minification 45.0 kB
  • After compression 12.2 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 36.4 kB or 75% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 16.1 kB

  • Original 234.1 kB
  • After minification 218.0 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. Sa Air Force images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-16%

Potential reduce by 66.7 kB

  • Original 408.9 kB
  • After minification 408.7 kB
  • After compression 342.3 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 66.7 kB or 16% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-41%

Potential reduce by 3.5 kB

  • Original 8.6 kB
  • After minification 8.4 kB
  • After compression 5.1 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. Saairforce.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 3.5 kB or 41% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 38 (55%)

Requests Now

69

After Optimization

31

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 69 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Sa Air Force. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 17 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

saairforce.co.za

saairforce.co.za

800 ms

www.saairforce.co.za

www.saairforce.co.za

3201 ms

sIFR-screen.css

sIFR-screen.css

499 ms

default.css

default.css

501 ms

ai_lib.js

ai_lib.js

499 ms

sifr.js

sifr.js

503 ms

sifr-addons.js

sifr-addons.js

505 ms

show_ads.js

show_ads.js

67 ms

all.js

all.js

15 ms

ga.js

ga.js

15 ms

icon_home_o.gif

icon_home_o.gif

254 ms

icon_forum_o.gif

icon_forum_o.gif

253 ms

icon_shop_o.gif

icon_shop_o.gif

252 ms

icon_alumni_o.gif

icon_alumni_o.gif

253 ms

saaf_site_logo.jpg

saaf_site_logo.jpg

501 ms

find.gif

find.gif

503 ms

header_logo_edge.jpg

header_logo_edge.jpg

502 ms

coffee_banner.jpg

coffee_banner.jpg

749 ms

wc_banner.jpg

wc_banner.jpg

754 ms

saaf_association.jpg

saaf_association.jpg

753 ms

corona-virus-notice.jpg

corona-virus-notice.jpg

1000 ms

header_home.jpg

header_home.jpg

1257 ms

bg_top_left_content.gif

bg_top_left_content.gif

847 ms

rssfeed.gif

rssfeed.gif

1000 ms

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661e7a7105b3c.jpg

1006 ms

66166be6d6665.jpg

66166be6d6665.jpg

1005 ms

bg_top.jpg

bg_top.jpg

1095 ms

icon_forum.gif

icon_forum.gif

1256 ms

icon_shop.gif

icon_shop.gif

1255 ms

icon_alumni.gif

icon_alumni.gif

1258 ms

all.js

all.js

12 ms

bg_header.jpg

bg_header.jpg

1246 ms

bg_nav.jpg

bg_nav.jpg

1375 ms

divider.gif

divider.gif

1493 ms

bg_sidebar.jpg

bg_sidebar.jpg

1494 ms

li.gif

li.gif

1493 ms

hr.gif

hr.gif

1498 ms

adsbygoogle.js

adsbygoogle.js

128 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

34 ms

bg_content.jpg

bg_content.jpg

1451 ms

bg_landscape.gif

bg_landscape.gif

1536 ms

icon_link.gif

icon_link.gif

1689 ms

show_ads_impl.js

show_ads_impl.js

369 ms

zrt_lookup.html

zrt_lookup.html

39 ms

ads

ads

465 ms

tumult9.jpg

tumult9.jpg

1134 ms

bg_landscape.gif

bg_landscape.gif

1134 ms

4f1a890c24cce_thumb.jpg

4f1a890c24cce_thumb.jpg

1147 ms

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1147 ms

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1230 ms

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1382 ms

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1383 ms

trans.gif

trans.gif

1384 ms

bg_footer.jpg

bg_footer.jpg

1398 ms

like.php

like.php

91 ms

like.php

like.php

270 ms

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GiNc_6TD3uf.js

19 ms

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13 ms

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GiNc_6TD3uf.js

7 ms

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23 ms

abg_lite.js

abg_lite.js

24 ms

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5 ms

window_focus.js

window_focus.js

29 ms

qs_click_protection.js

qs_click_protection.js

28 ms

ufs_web_display.js

ufs_web_display.js

17 ms

one_click_handler_one_afma.js

one_click_handler_one_afma.js

145 ms

icon.png

icon.png

10 ms

activeview

activeview

62 ms

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3 ms

sIFR-print.css

sIFR-print.css

252 ms

print.css

print.css

251 ms

Accessibility Review

saairforce.co.za accessibility score

58

Accessibility Issues

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

[accesskey] values are not unique

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

High

Some elements have a [tabindex] value greater than 0

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.

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

<input type="image"> elements do not have [alt] text

High

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

saairforce.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

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

saairforce.co.za SEO score

58

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

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    N/A

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Saairforce.co.za can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Unfortunately we cannot identify language used on the page (probably there is a mix of languages, too little text or something else), while the claimed language is English. Our system also found out that Saairforce.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

saairforce.co.za

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Sa Air Force. 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: