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Report Summary

  • 48

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    66% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    20% of websites

  • 75

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    32% of websites

soams.co.za

SOAMS Consulting

Page Load Speed

5 sec in total

First Response

398 ms

Resources Loaded

4.4 sec

Page Rendered

196 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Soams.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 398 ms and then it took 4.6 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

soams.co.za performance score

48

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value8.6 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.9 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value12.4 s

3/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value70 ms

99/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value9.4 s

30/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

Home.php

398 ms

style.css

246 ms

Verdana.css

462 ms

style.css

473 ms

Navigator.css

471 ms

Our browser made a total of 43 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 95% of them (41 requests) were addressed to the original Soams.co.za, 5% (2 requests) were made to Connect.facebook.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.6 sec) belongs to the original domain Soams.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 261.7 kB (34%)

Content Size

770.0 kB

After Optimization

508.4 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Soams.co.za main page is 770.0 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 461.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 15.7 kB

  • Original 20.9 kB
  • After minification 19.5 kB
  • After compression 5.2 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 15.7 kB or 75% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 33.0 kB

  • Original 461.9 kB
  • After minification 428.9 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. SOAMS images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-73%

Potential reduce by 181.6 kB

  • Original 248.9 kB
  • After minification 248.0 kB
  • After compression 67.3 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 181.6 kB or 73% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 31.4 kB

  • Original 38.4 kB
  • After minification 29.8 kB
  • After compression 7.0 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. Soams.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 31.4 kB or 82% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 21 (50%)

Requests Now

42

After Optimization

21

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 42 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of SOAMS. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 7 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 16 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Home.php

Home.php

398 ms

style.css

style.css

246 ms

Verdana.css

Verdana.css

462 ms

style.css

style.css

473 ms

Navigator.css

Navigator.css

471 ms

pathway.css

pathway.css

470 ms

ui.all.css

ui.all.css

475 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

741 ms

jquery-ui.min.js

jquery-ui.min.js

1621 ms

rvsheadpage.js

rvsheadpage.js

714 ms

jquery.url.js

jquery.url.js

702 ms

rvscustomopenwindow.js

rvscustomopenwindow.js

710 ms

ui.base.css

ui.base.css

241 ms

ui.theme.css

ui.theme.css

700 ms

ui.core.css

ui.core.css

237 ms

ui.resizable.css

ui.resizable.css

237 ms

ui.accordion.css

ui.accordion.css

236 ms

ui.dialog.css

ui.dialog.css

273 ms

ui.slider.css

ui.slider.css

474 ms

ui.tabs.css

ui.tabs.css

476 ms

ui.datepicker.css

ui.datepicker.css

470 ms

ui.progressbar.css

ui.progressbar.css

512 ms

bgindex.jpg

bgindex.jpg

243 ms

bgtop.jpg

bgtop.jpg

236 ms

LOGO.gif

LOGO.gif

237 ms

spacer.gif

spacer.gif

234 ms

img01.jpg

img01.jpg

464 ms

img02.jpg

img02.jpg

234 ms

img03.jpg

img03.jpg

695 ms

img04.jpg

img04.jpg

472 ms

nav01.jpg

nav01.jpg

468 ms

nav02.jpg

nav02.jpg

471 ms

soams_Services.png

soams_Services.png

966 ms

hacker.jpg

hacker.jpg

698 ms

cargo_unauthoriseaccess.png

cargo_unauthoriseaccess.png

1160 ms

training__dummies.jpg

training__dummies.jpg

1403 ms

bottom01.jpg

bottom01.jpg

701 ms

bottom02.jpg

bottom02.jpg

926 ms

bgheader.jpg

bgheader.jpg

898 ms

bgmenu.jpg

bgmenu.jpg

896 ms

white_arrow.gif

white_arrow.gif

1125 ms

all.js

all.js

16 ms

all.js

all.js

5 ms

Accessibility Review

soams.co.za accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

soams.co.za best practices score

58

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

High

Includes front-end JavaScript libraries with known security vulnerabilities

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

soams.co.za SEO score

75

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Soams.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 Soams.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

soams.co.za

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