Report Summary

  • 38

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    57% of other websites

  • 91

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 76% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    83% of websites

smallbusinessconnect.co.za

Home - Small Business Connect

Page Load Speed

4.4 sec in total

First Response

148 ms

Resources Loaded

3.9 sec

Page Rendered

274 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Smallbusinessconnect.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 148 ms and then it took 4.2 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

smallbusinessconnect.co.za performance score

38

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.2 s

44/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.3 s

10/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.8 s

24/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value330 ms

75/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.318

36/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value13.1 s

12/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

smallbusinessconnect.co.za

148 ms

smallbusinessconnect.co.za

532 ms

WIOlzct0YsA0Sf6W1Md_u-AMNRU.js

16 ms

givecss.php

834 ms

style.min.css

70 ms

Our browser made a total of 38 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 79% of them (30 requests) were addressed to the original Smallbusinessconnect.co.za, 8% (3 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 5% (2 requests) were made to Pagead2.googlesyndication.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.4 sec) belongs to the original domain Smallbusinessconnect.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 414.4 kB (58%)

Content Size

710.8 kB

After Optimization

296.4 kB

In fact, the total size of Smallbusinessconnect.co.za main page is 710.8 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 610.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 86.1 kB

  • Original 100.4 kB
  • After minification 100.4 kB
  • After compression 14.2 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 86.1 kB or 86% of the original size.

JavaScript Optimization

-54%

Potential reduce by 328.3 kB

  • Original 610.5 kB
  • After minification 610.5 kB
  • After compression 282.2 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 328.3 kB or 54% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 11 (39%)

Requests Now

28

After Optimization

17

The browser has sent 28 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Small Business Connect. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 8 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

smallbusinessconnect.co.za accessibility score

91

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

smallbusinessconnect.co.za best practices score

75

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

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

smallbusinessconnect.co.za SEO score

93

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 Smallbusinessconnect.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 Smallbusinessconnect.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 data is detected on the main page of Small Business Connect. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: