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Report Summary

  • 18

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    34% of other websites

  • 81

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 51% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 77

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    36% of websites

solarguru.co.za

Home of Solar Guru's Solar Geysers ⋆ Solar Geysers suppliers in SA

Page Load Speed

14.5 sec in total

First Response

3.4 sec

Resources Loaded

10.1 sec

Page Rendered

1 sec

solarguru.co.za screenshot

About Website

Click here to check amazing Solar Guru content for South Africa. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about solarguru.co.za

Solar Guru is a sustainable, alternate energy company. Our main focus is the supply of Low- and High-Pressure Solar Geysers!

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Key Findings

We analyzed Solarguru.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 3.4 sec and then it took 11.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 90% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

solarguru.co.za performance score

18

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value15.6 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value37.3 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value33.7 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,880 ms

9/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.013

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value37.2 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

solarguru.co.za

3385 ms

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26 ms

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1510 ms

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61 ms

Our browser made a total of 84 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 61% of them (51 requests) were addressed to the original Solarguru.co.za, 11% (9 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 11% (9 requests) were made to Static.xx.fbcdn.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (3.4 sec) belongs to the original domain Solarguru.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 3.9 MB (73%)

Content Size

5.3 MB

After Optimization

1.5 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Solarguru.co.za main page is 5.3 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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 2.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 182.3 kB

  • Original 230.0 kB
  • After minification 229.9 kB
  • After compression 47.6 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 182.3 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 14.5 kB

  • Original 661.1 kB
  • After minification 646.6 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. Solar Guru images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-70%

Potential reduce by 1.7 MB

  • Original 2.4 MB
  • After minification 2.4 MB
  • After compression 721.8 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 1.7 MB or 70% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-98%

Potential reduce by 2.0 MB

  • Original 2.0 MB
  • After minification 66.0 kB
  • After compression 36.9 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. Solarguru.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 2.0 MB or 98% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 25 (36%)

Requests Now

69

After Optimization

44

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 69 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Solar Guru. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 20 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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1529 ms

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1567 ms

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1824 ms

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1869 ms

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1875 ms

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Accessibility Review

solarguru.co.za accessibility score

81

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

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

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

solarguru.co.za best practices score

75

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

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

solarguru.co.za SEO score

77

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

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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 Solarguru.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 Solarguru.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

solarguru.co.za

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