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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

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    94% of websites

simplygreen.co.za

Enjoy Our Full Guide to Eco-Friendly Living in South Africa

Page Load Speed

5.1 sec in total

First Response

352 ms

Resources Loaded

3.1 sec

Page Rendered

1.6 sec

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About Website

Welcome to simplygreen.co.za homepage info - get ready to check Simplygreen best content right away, or after learning these important things about simplygreen.co.za

This blog contains expert posts on various areas of sustainable and natural living in South Africa. Read our best advice and tips for a green lifestyle.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Simplygreen.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 352 ms and then it took 4.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 70% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

simplygreen.co.za performance score

29

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.6 s

31/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value15.0 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.4 s

27/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,060 ms

25/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.077

95/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value14.0 s

10/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

simplygreen.co.za

352 ms

www.simplygreen.co.za

836 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

223 ms

front_end_style.css

347 ms

dashicons.min.css

615 ms

Our browser made a total of 56 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 46% of them (26 requests) were addressed to the original Simplygreen.co.za, 25% (14 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 21% (12 requests) were made to Youtube.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.2 sec) belongs to the original domain Simplygreen.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 257.7 kB (12%)

Content Size

2.2 MB

After Optimization

1.9 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Simplygreen.co.za main page is 2.2 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 1.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-71%

Potential reduce by 37.6 kB

  • Original 53.3 kB
  • After minification 51.1 kB
  • After compression 15.6 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 37.6 kB or 71% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 10.9 kB

  • Original 1.4 MB
  • After minification 1.4 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. Simplygreen images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-25%

Potential reduce by 110.8 kB

  • Original 450.4 kB
  • After minification 436.7 kB
  • After compression 339.6 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 110.8 kB or 25% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-37%

Potential reduce by 98.3 kB

  • Original 266.9 kB
  • After minification 241.9 kB
  • After compression 168.5 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. Simplygreen.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 98.3 kB or 37% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 24 (60%)

Requests Now

40

After Optimization

16

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 40 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Simplygreen. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 13 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 13 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

simplygreen.co.za

simplygreen.co.za

352 ms

www.simplygreen.co.za

www.simplygreen.co.za

836 ms

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wp-emoji-release.min.js

223 ms

front_end_style.css

front_end_style.css

347 ms

dashicons.min.css

dashicons.min.css

615 ms

desktop_style.css

desktop_style.css

374 ms

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form_style.css

373 ms

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37 ms

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style.css

620 ms

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379 ms

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468 ms

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496 ms

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496 ms

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500 ms

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715 ms

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618 ms

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126 ms

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126 ms

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16 ms

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101 ms

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Accessibility Review

simplygreen.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

Best Practices

simplygreen.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

simplygreen.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 Simplygreen.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 Simplygreen.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

simplygreen.co.za

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