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Report Summary

  • 52

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    69% of other websites

  • 78

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 45% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    94% of websites

socr.co.za

State of South African Cities Report 2016 brought to you by SACN

Page Load Speed

11 sec in total

First Response

3.1 sec

Resources Loaded

7.5 sec

Page Rendered

449 ms

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About Website

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

State of Cities Reporting (SOCR) over the years has been to present a 5-year perspective on the performance and conditions of South Africa’s largest cities.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Socr.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 3.1 sec and then it took 7.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 85% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

socr.co.za performance score

52

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.2 s

3/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.6 s

8/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value11.8 s

4/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value70 ms

99/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.002

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value7.7 s

45/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.socr.co.za

3094 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

272 ms

styles.css

873 ms

www.socr.co.za

1032 ms

main.css

796 ms

Our browser made a total of 20 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that all of those requests were addressed to Socr.co.za and no external sources were called. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (3.1 sec) belongs to the original domain Socr.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 14.8 kB (6%)

Content Size

263.8 kB

After Optimization

249.0 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Socr.co.za main page is 263.8 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. 30% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 182.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-70%

Potential reduce by 13.3 kB

  • Original 19.0 kB
  • After minification 18.6 kB
  • After compression 5.7 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 13.3 kB or 70% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 48 B

  • Original 182.2 kB
  • After minification 182.2 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. Socr images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 213 B

  • Original 20.0 kB
  • After minification 20.0 kB
  • After compression 19.8 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 1.2 kB

  • Original 42.5 kB
  • After minification 42.5 kB
  • After compression 41.3 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. Socr.co.za has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 5 (26%)

Requests Now

19

After Optimization

14

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 19 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Socr. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 6 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

www.socr.co.za

www.socr.co.za

3094 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

wp-emoji-release.min.js

272 ms

styles.css

styles.css

873 ms

www.socr.co.za

www.socr.co.za

1032 ms

main.css

main.css

796 ms

jquery.js

jquery.js

757 ms

jquery-migrate.min.js

jquery-migrate.min.js

511 ms

fts-global.js

fts-global.js

546 ms

main.js

main.js

772 ms

wp-embed.min.js

wp-embed.min.js

889 ms

title.png

title.png

293 ms

16.png

16.png

1022 ms

social_fb.png

social_fb.png

296 ms

social_t.png

social_t.png

295 ms

social_li.png

social_li.png

268 ms

social_ig.png

social_ig.png

270 ms

social_yt.png

social_yt.png

521 ms

footer_1.png

footer_1.png

521 ms

footer_2.png

footer_2.png

529 ms

menu_icon.png

menu_icon.png

490 ms

Accessibility Review

socr.co.za accessibility score

78

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

button, link, and menuitem 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

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

High

Some elements have a [tabindex] value greater than 0

Best practices

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

socr.co.za best practices score

83

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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

socr.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 Socr.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 Socr.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

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Open Graph data is detected on the main page of Socr. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: