Report Summary

  • 36

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    55% of other websites

  • 73

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 38% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 75

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    32% of websites

smarttec.co.za

Smart Technology | Information and Communication Technology

Page Load Speed

29.1 sec in total

First Response

9 sec

Resources Loaded

19.4 sec

Page Rendered

746 ms

smarttec.co.za screenshot

About Website

Click here to check amazing Smart Tec content. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about smarttec.co.za

Smart Technology is the world’s most advanced information and Communication Technology (ICT) products and services and solutions with a record of being on a budget and on-time delivery.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Smarttec.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 9 sec and then it took 20.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 95% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

smarttec.co.za performance score

36

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.2 s

3/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value17.3 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value20.3 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value440 ms

64/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.007

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value13.2 s

12/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

smarttec.co.za

8964 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

372 ms

style.min.css

712 ms

css

34 ms

styles.css

838 ms

Our browser made a total of 90 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 77% of them (69 requests) were addressed to the original Smarttec.co.za, 19% (17 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 4% (4 requests) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (9 sec) belongs to the original domain Smarttec.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 625.9 kB (16%)

Content Size

4.0 MB

After Optimization

3.3 MB

In fact, the total size of Smarttec.co.za main page is 4.0 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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 3.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 211.5 kB

  • Original 248.5 kB
  • After minification 242.4 kB
  • After compression 36.9 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 211.5 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-10%

Potential reduce by 348.2 kB

  • Original 3.3 MB
  • After minification 3.0 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. Smart Tec images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-23%

Potential reduce by 61.1 kB

  • Original 266.4 kB
  • After minification 266.4 kB
  • After compression 205.3 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 61.1 kB or 23% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 5.0 kB

  • Original 116.6 kB
  • After minification 116.6 kB
  • After compression 111.6 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. Smarttec.co.za has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 50 (74%)

Requests Now

68

After Optimization

18

The browser has sent 68 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Smart Tec. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 24 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 28 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

smarttec.co.za accessibility score

73

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

[aria-*] attributes do not match their roles

High

[aria-hidden="true"] elements contain focusable descendents

High

ARIA progressbar elements do not have accessible names.

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

[id] attributes on active, focusable elements are not unique

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

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

smarttec.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

SEO Factors

smarttec.co.za SEO score

75

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

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 Smarttec.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 Smarttec.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 description is not detected on the main page of Smart Tec. 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: