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Report Summary

  • 17

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    32% of other websites

  • 95

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 86% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 89

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    66% of websites

sapaving.co.za

Paving Contractors | Brick Paving Company | SA Paving

Page Load Speed

21.5 sec in total

First Response

4.1 sec

Resources Loaded

15.1 sec

Page Rendered

2.3 sec

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About Website

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

Since 1978, we have been SA's most trusted residential & commercial paving contractor. Get your free quote and paving sketch-up here.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Sapaving.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 4.1 sec and then it took 17.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 95% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

sapaving.co.za performance score

17

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value12.2 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value16.1 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value22.9 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,960 ms

8/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.048

99/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value26.8 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.sapaving.co.za

4129 ms

main.min.css

916 ms

astra-local-fonts.css

919 ms

astra-theme-dynamic-css-post-8.css

930 ms

astra-addon-665590b1c5aa53-30245917.css

932 ms

Our browser made a total of 106 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 88% of them (93 requests) were addressed to the original Sapaving.co.za, 3% (3 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com and 2% (2 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (4.1 sec) belongs to the original domain Sapaving.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 290.6 kB (8%)

Content Size

3.6 MB

After Optimization

3.3 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Sapaving.co.za main page is 3.6 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 2.6 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 284.9 kB

  • Original 327.2 kB
  • After minification 313.1 kB
  • After compression 42.3 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 284.9 kB or 87% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 3.2 kB

  • Original 2.6 MB
  • After minification 2.6 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. SA Paving images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 1.4 kB

  • Original 444.7 kB
  • After minification 444.7 kB
  • After compression 443.3 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 1.1 kB

  • Original 169.0 kB
  • After minification 169.0 kB
  • After compression 167.9 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. Sapaving.co.za has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 54 (55%)

Requests Now

99

After Optimization

45

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 99 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of SA Paving. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 34 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 22 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

www.sapaving.co.za

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4129 ms

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Accessibility Review

sapaving.co.za accessibility score

95

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

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

sapaving.co.za best practices score

92

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

sapaving.co.za SEO score

89

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

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 Sapaving.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 Sapaving.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

sapaving.co.za

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