Report Summary

  • 16

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    30% of other websites

  • 79

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 47% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 85

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    55% of websites

secoafrica.com

Southern Engineering Co. Ltd (SECO) – Marine & Offshore Engineering

Page Load Speed

23.1 sec in total

First Response

741 ms

Resources Loaded

21.6 sec

Page Rendered

729 ms

secoafrica.com screenshot

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Key Findings

We analyzed Secoafrica.com page load time and found that the first response time was 741 ms and then it took 22.3 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

secoafrica.com performance score

16

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.3 s

3/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value22.4 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value20.3 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,490 ms

2/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.027

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value63.3 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

secoafrica.com

741 ms

www.secoafrica.com

3687 ms

sdm_wp_styles.css

308 ms

fonts.css

902 ms

dashicons.min.css

1227 ms

Our browser made a total of 251 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 87% of them (219 requests) were addressed to the original Secoafrica.com, 5% (12 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 3% (8 requests) were made to Youtube.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (3.7 sec) belongs to the original domain Secoafrica.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 467.8 kB (2%)

Content Size

20.3 MB

After Optimization

19.8 MB

In fact, the total size of Secoafrica.com main page is 20.3 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 19.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-89%

Potential reduce by 334.4 kB

  • Original 373.8 kB
  • After minification 366.5 kB
  • After compression 39.4 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 334.4 kB or 89% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 126.3 kB

  • Original 19.4 MB
  • After minification 19.3 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. SECO Africa images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 5.0 kB

  • Original 273.0 kB
  • After minification 273.0 kB
  • After compression 268.0 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 2.1 kB

  • Original 224.6 kB
  • After minification 224.1 kB
  • After compression 222.5 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. Secoafrica.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 38 (18%)

Requests Now

210

After Optimization

172

The browser has sent 210 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of SECO Africa. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 23 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 17 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

secoafrica.com accessibility score

79

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.

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

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

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Lists do not contain only <li> elements and script supporting elements (<script> and <template>).

High

List items (<li>) are not contained within <ul> or <ol> parent elements.

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

secoafrica.com 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

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

secoafrica.com SEO score

85

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 Secoafrica.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 Secoafrica.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

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