Report Summary

  • 21

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    39% of other websites

  • 98

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 94% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    94% of websites

seekloans.co.za

Loans Online – Quick & Easy Loans in South Africa | LoansPlus

Page Load Speed

8.4 sec in total

First Response

1.3 sec

Resources Loaded

3.2 sec

Page Rendered

4 sec

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Seekloans.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 1.3 sec and then it took 7.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 85% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

seekloans.co.za performance score

21

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.6 s

6/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.9 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value11.7 s

4/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,640 ms

4/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.001

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value9.3 s

31/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

seekloans.co.za

1289 ms

loansplus.co.za

1286 ms

style.css

21 ms

js

213 ms

lazysizes.min.js

171 ms

Our browser made a total of 14 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 7% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Seekloans.co.za, 79% (11 requests) were made to Loansplus.co.za and 7% (1 request) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.3 sec) belongs to the original domain Seekloans.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 37.7 kB (32%)

Content Size

119.5 kB

After Optimization

81.7 kB

In fact, the total size of Seekloans.co.za main page is 119.5 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. 30% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 62.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 37.1 kB

  • Original 46.5 kB
  • After minification 46.5 kB
  • After compression 9.4 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 37.1 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 62.2 kB
  • After minification 62.2 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. Seek Loans images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-13%

Potential reduce by 647 B

  • Original 5.0 kB
  • After minification 5.0 kB
  • After compression 4.3 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 647 B or 13% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 5.9 kB
  • After minification 5.9 kB
  • After compression 5.9 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. Seekloans.co.za has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 4 (40%)

Requests Now

10

After Optimization

6

The browser has sent 10 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Seek Loans. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 5 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

seekloans.co.za accessibility score

98

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.

Best Practices

seekloans.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

SEO Factors

seekloans.co.za SEO score

100

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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

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 Seekloans.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 Seekloans.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 description is not detected on the main page of Seek Loans. 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: