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Report Summary

  • 29

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    49% of other websites

  • 94

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 83% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    74% of websites

signcarver.co.za

hand carved wooden signs by Ivan Hunter, the Sign Carver - Sign Carver

Page Load Speed

6.7 sec in total

First Response

29 ms

Resources Loaded

4.1 sec

Page Rendered

2.6 sec

signcarver.co.za screenshot

About Website

Visit signcarver.co.za now to see the best up-to-date Sign Carver content for South Africa and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about signcarver.co.za

Ivan Hunter, the Sign Carver specialises in professionally hand carved wooden signs, coats of arms & sculpture

Visit signcarver.co.za

Key Findings

We analyzed Signcarver.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 29 ms and then it took 6.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 80% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

signcarver.co.za performance score

29

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.5 s

34/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value24.6 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value17.1 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value840 ms

34/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value32.5 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

signcarver.co.za

29 ms

signcarver.co.za

176 ms

xxvykdaj.elementor.cloud

1474 ms

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164 ms

theme.min.css

140 ms

Our browser made a total of 127 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (2 requests) were addressed to the original Signcarver.co.za, 66% (84 requests) were made to Xxvykdaj.elementor.cloud and 28% (36 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.5 sec) relates to the external source Xxvykdaj.elementor.cloud.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 500.2 kB (5%)

Content Size

11.0 MB

After Optimization

10.5 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Signcarver.co.za main page is 11.0 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 9.8 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 213.0 kB

  • Original 246.2 kB
  • After minification 234.2 kB
  • After compression 33.2 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 213.0 kB or 87% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 175 B

  • Original 9.8 MB
  • After minification 9.8 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. Sign Carver images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 1.2 kB

  • Original 621.2 kB
  • After minification 621.2 kB
  • After compression 620.0 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

-84%

Potential reduce by 285.9 kB

  • Original 340.7 kB
  • After minification 55.5 kB
  • After compression 54.9 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. Signcarver.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 285.9 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 48 (55%)

Requests Now

88

After Optimization

40

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 88 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Sign Carver. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 20 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 30 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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Accessibility Review

signcarver.co.za accessibility score

94

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

signcarver.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

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

signcarver.co.za SEO score

92

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 Signcarver.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 Signcarver.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

signcarver.co.za

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