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Report Summary

  • 11

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    24% of other websites

  • 81

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 51% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 65

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    25% of websites

sharenet.co.za

SHARENET - Your Key To Investing on The JSE Securities Exchange - South Africa

Page Load Speed

8.7 sec in total

First Response

529 ms

Resources Loaded

7.6 sec

Page Rendered

625 ms

sharenet.co.za screenshot

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Sharenet.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 529 ms and then it took 8.2 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

sharenet.co.za performance score

11

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value8.3 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value18.8 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value24.3 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value4,820 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.161

72/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value39.9 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

sharenet.co.za

529 ms

www.sharenet.co.za

540 ms

www.sharenet.co.za

1155 ms

bootstrap-sn.min.css

446 ms

style.css

667 ms

Our browser made a total of 48 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 65% of them (31 requests) were addressed to the original Sharenet.co.za, 10% (5 requests) were made to Use.fontawesome.com and 6% (3 requests) were made to Cdnjs.cloudflare.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.9 sec) belongs to the original domain Sharenet.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 116.8 kB (15%)

Content Size

773.9 kB

After Optimization

657.1 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Sharenet.co.za main page is 773.9 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. 35% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 383.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 92.4 kB

  • Original 111.4 kB
  • After minification 97.6 kB
  • After compression 19.0 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 13.8 kB, which is 12% of the original size. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 92.4 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 21.4 kB

  • Original 383.8 kB
  • After minification 362.4 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. SHARENET images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 1.6 kB

  • Original 242.4 kB
  • After minification 242.4 kB
  • After compression 240.8 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

-4%

Potential reduce by 1.4 kB

  • Original 36.4 kB
  • After minification 36.4 kB
  • After compression 35.0 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. Sharenet.co.za has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 23 (55%)

Requests Now

42

After Optimization

19

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 42 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of SHARENET. 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 8 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

sharenet.co.za

sharenet.co.za

529 ms

www.sharenet.co.za

www.sharenet.co.za

540 ms

www.sharenet.co.za

www.sharenet.co.za

1155 ms

bootstrap-sn.min.css

bootstrap-sn.min.css

446 ms

style.css

style.css

667 ms

all.css

all.css

53 ms

v4-shims.css

v4-shims.css

64 ms

datatables.min.css

datatables.min.css

56 ms

sharenet.css

sharenet.css

672 ms

header.css

header.css

678 ms

fuse.js

fuse.js

81 ms

jquery-1.12.4.min.js

jquery-1.12.4.min.js

905 ms

jquery.cookie.js

jquery.cookie.js

681 ms

tabs.js

tabs.js

699 ms

perfect-scrollbar.jquery.js

perfect-scrollbar.jquery.js

53 ms

common.js

common.js

888 ms

sharenet.js

sharenet.js

894 ms

js

js

105 ms

home.css

home.css

1567 ms

jquery.marquee.min.js

jquery.marquee.min.js

43 ms

ranking-component.min.js

ranking-component.min.js

1587 ms

1621561845937167.js

1621561845937167.js

327 ms

popper.min.js

popper.min.js

19 ms

bootstrap.min.js

bootstrap.min.js

41 ms

jquery.cycle2.min.js

jquery.cycle2.min.js

18 ms

datatables.min.js

datatables.min.js

23 ms

js

js

31 ms

sharenet-icon.png

sharenet-icon.png

224 ms

Sharenet-Logo_transparent.png

Sharenet-Logo_transparent.png

460 ms

ajax-loader1.gif

ajax-loader1.gif

223 ms

arw_up_green.gif

arw_up_green.gif

224 ms

arw_dn_red.gif

arw_dn_red.gif

445 ms

mobile_add.jpg

mobile_add.jpg

1106 ms

Sharenet_Daily_logo.png

Sharenet_Daily_logo.png

444 ms

drawgraph.phtml

drawgraph.phtml

883 ms

iconi.svg

iconi.svg

690 ms

appBtn1.png

appBtn1.png

723 ms

appBtn2.png

appBtn2.png

1084 ms

intellidex-awards-2020.png

intellidex-awards-2020.png

2886 ms

Sharenet_Logo.png

Sharenet_Logo.png

1107 ms

fa-solid-900.woff

fa-solid-900.woff

60 ms

fa-regular-400.woff

fa-regular-400.woff

61 ms

get_chart.php

get_chart.php

529 ms

get_chart.php

get_chart.php

617 ms

fa-brands-400.woff

fa-brands-400.woff

115 ms

in.php

in.php

105 ms

lj203val.png

lj203val.png

224 ms

lusdzar.png

lusdzar.png

233 ms

Accessibility Review

sharenet.co.za accessibility score

81

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

Best Practices

sharenet.co.za best practices score

67

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

High

Includes front-end JavaScript libraries with known security vulnerabilities

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

sharenet.co.za SEO score

65

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

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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 doesn't use legible font sizes

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Sharenet.co.za can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Sharenet.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

sharenet.co.za

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