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Report Summary

  • 39

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    58% of other websites

  • 79

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 47% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 91

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    70% of websites

sasol.com

Home | Sasol

Page Load Speed

10.3 sec in total

First Response

95 ms

Resources Loaded

9.8 sec

Page Rendered

439 ms

sasol.com screenshot

About Website

Click here to check amazing Sasol content for South Africa. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about sasol.com

Sasol is a global chemicals and energy company. We are a public company listed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange in South Africa and the New York Stock Exchange in the United States.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Sasol.com page load time and found that the first response time was 95 ms and then it took 10.2 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

sasol.com performance score

39

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value22.2 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value35.1 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value26.1 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.222

56/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value22.2 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

sasol.com

95 ms

sasol.com

1329 ms

uwt.js

56 ms

js

99 ms

events.js

136 ms

Our browser made a total of 262 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 79% of them (208 requests) were addressed to the original Sasol.com, 8% (20 requests) were made to Youtube.com and 5% (14 requests) were made to Jnn-pa.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (3.4 sec) belongs to the original domain Sasol.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 410.1 kB (8%)

Content Size

4.9 MB

After Optimization

4.5 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Sasol.com main page is 4.9 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. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Images take 3.6 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 150.2 kB

  • Original 177.6 kB
  • After minification 164.9 kB
  • After compression 27.5 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 150.2 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 193.5 kB

  • Original 3.6 MB
  • After minification 3.4 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. Sasol images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 35.6 kB

  • Original 747.4 kB
  • After minification 745.9 kB
  • After compression 711.8 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

-8%

Potential reduce by 30.7 kB

  • Original 371.8 kB
  • After minification 368.6 kB
  • After compression 341.0 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. Sasol.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 173 (68%)

Requests Now

253

After Optimization

80

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 253 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Sasol. 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 89 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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Accessibility Review

sasol.com accessibility score

79

Accessibility Issues

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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.

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

sasol.com best practices score

67

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

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

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

sasol.com SEO score

91

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 Sasol.com 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 Sasol.com 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

sasol.com

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