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Report Summary

  • 54

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    72% of other websites

  • 87

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 67% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 98

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    92% of websites

skunk.co.za

Pepper Spray Alarm System | Skunk Distributors

Page Load Speed

5.3 sec in total

First Response

1 sec

Resources Loaded

4.1 sec

Page Rendered

240 ms

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About Website

Welcome to skunk.co.za homepage info - get ready to check Skunk best content for South Africa right away, or after learning these important things about skunk.co.za

Skunk Distributors is your leading expert in home and personal safety. We offer a range of products from pepper spray alarm systems to house alarm systems.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Skunk.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 1 sec and then it took 4.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 65% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

skunk.co.za performance score

54

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.3 s

41/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.1 s

12/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.8 s

24/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value100 ms

98/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.28

43/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value4.4 s

83/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

skunk.co.za

1018 ms

style.css

264 ms

jquery.min.js

1304 ms

slimbox2.js

529 ms

counter.js

7 ms

Our browser made a total of 27 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 89% of them (24 requests) were addressed to the original Skunk.co.za, 4% (1 request) were made to Statcounter.com and 4% (1 request) were made to Umsiko.co.za. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.7 sec) relates to the external source Umsiko.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 77.1 kB (31%)

Content Size

248.7 kB

After Optimization

171.6 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Skunk.co.za main page is 248.7 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. 20% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 134.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 13.9 kB

  • Original 18.3 kB
  • After minification 14.7 kB
  • After compression 4.5 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 3.6 kB, which is 20% 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 13.9 kB or 76% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 8.4 kB

  • Original 134.8 kB
  • After minification 126.5 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. Skunk images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-56%

Potential reduce by 50.7 kB

  • Original 90.2 kB
  • After minification 89.9 kB
  • After compression 39.5 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 50.7 kB or 56% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 4.1 kB

  • Original 5.4 kB
  • After minification 3.9 kB
  • After compression 1.3 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. Skunk.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 4.1 kB or 77% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

26

After Optimization

26

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 26 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Skunk. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Network Requests Diagram

skunk.co.za

skunk.co.za

1018 ms

style.css

style.css

264 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

1304 ms

slimbox2.js

slimbox2.js

529 ms

counter.js

counter.js

7 ms

umsw.png

umsw.png

1720 ms

background.jpg

background.jpg

263 ms

skunk.png

skunk.png

532 ms

bsalogo.png

bsalogo.png

266 ms

linkback.png

linkback.png

529 ms

logoback.png

logoback.png

532 ms

logo_security.png

logo_security.png

796 ms

logo_backup.png

logo_backup.png

793 ms

logo_energy.png

logo_energy.png

797 ms

logo_intruder.png

logo_intruder.png

789 ms

contentback.png

contentback.png

797 ms

skunkpepper.gif

skunkpepper.gif

794 ms

skunksprays.gif

skunksprays.gif

1049 ms

noimage.gif

noimage.gif

1057 ms

skunklight.gif

skunklight.gif

1058 ms

batterybackup.gif

batterybackup.gif

1059 ms

lighton.gif

lighton.gif

1059 ms

joinback.png

joinback.png

1060 ms

blackback.png

blackback.png

1309 ms

captcha.php

captcha.php

1485 ms

botback.png

botback.png

1321 ms

t.php

t.php

53 ms

Accessibility Review

skunk.co.za accessibility score

87

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

Best Practices

skunk.co.za best practices score

83

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

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

skunk.co.za SEO score

98

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

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Skunk.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 Skunk.co.za main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

skunk.co.za

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