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Report Summary

  • 26

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    45% of other websites

  • 42

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 19% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 83

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    46% of websites

solar4africa.co.za

Default Web Site Page

Page Load Speed

7.6 sec in total

First Response

887 ms

Resources Loaded

6.3 sec

Page Rendered

375 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Solar4africa.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 887 ms and then it took 6.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 80% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

solar4africa.co.za performance score

26

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.0 s

84/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.3 s

2/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.6 s

53/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,130 ms

6/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.544

13/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value4.9 s

78/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

solar4africa.co.za

887 ms

css

23 ms

jquery-1.10.1.min.js

5 ms

jquery.dropotron.min.js

499 ms

skel.min.js

726 ms

Our browser made a total of 13 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 85% of them (11 requests) were addressed to the original Solar4africa.co.za, 8% (1 request) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com and 8% (1 request) were made to Code.jquery.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.7 sec) belongs to the original domain Solar4africa.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 230.5 kB (25%)

Content Size

920.7 kB

After Optimization

690.2 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Solar4africa.co.za main page is 920.7 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. 15% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 869.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 12.4 kB

  • Original 16.7 kB
  • After minification 15.0 kB
  • After compression 4.2 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 12.4 kB or 75% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-22%

Potential reduce by 194.3 kB

  • Original 869.9 kB
  • After minification 675.7 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. Obviously, Solar 4 Africa needs image optimization as it can save up to 194.3 kB or 22% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-68%

Potential reduce by 17.9 kB

  • Original 26.4 kB
  • After minification 26.3 kB
  • After compression 8.4 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 17.9 kB or 68% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 5.9 kB

  • Original 7.7 kB
  • After minification 6.1 kB
  • After compression 1.9 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. Solar4africa.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 5.9 kB or 76% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

10

After Optimization

10

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 10 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Solar 4 Africa. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Network Requests Diagram

solar4africa.co.za

solar4africa.co.za

887 ms

css

css

23 ms

jquery-1.10.1.min.js

jquery-1.10.1.min.js

5 ms

jquery.dropotron.min.js

jquery.dropotron.min.js

499 ms

skel.min.js

skel.min.js

726 ms

style.css

style.css

522 ms

style-narrow.css

style-narrow.css

524 ms

pattern.png

pattern.png

1096 ms

banner.jpg

banner.jpg

2694 ms

2kw%20Solar%20Power%20System.jpg

2kw%20Solar%20Power%20System.jpg

1582 ms

facebook.png

facebook.png

657 ms

NewsCycle-Regular.ttf

NewsCycle-Regular.ttf

1254 ms

DroidSans-webfont.woff

DroidSans-webfont.woff

783 ms

Accessibility Review

solar4africa.co.za accessibility score

42

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

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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

solar4africa.co.za best practices score

67

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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

solar4africa.co.za SEO score

83

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Solar4africa.co.za can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Solar4africa.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

solar4africa.co.za

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Solar 4 Africa. 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: