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Report Summary

  • 17

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    32% of other websites

  • 87

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 66% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 88

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    65% of websites

southcoastvw.co.za

New VW Vehicles | MasterCars | South Coast Volkswagen

Page Load Speed

12.7 sec in total

First Response

884 ms

Resources Loaded

10 sec

Page Rendered

1.9 sec

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Key Findings

We analyzed Southcoastvw.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 884 ms and then it took 11.9 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

southcoastvw.co.za performance score

17

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.6 s

5/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value18.4 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value15.9 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,290 ms

18/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.187

65/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value14.1 s

9/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

southcoastvw.co.za

884 ms

southcoastvw.co.za

1281 ms

www.southcoastvw.co.za

3236 ms

js

76 ms

fbevents.js

20 ms

Our browser made a total of 64 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 70% of them (45 requests) were addressed to the original Southcoastvw.co.za, 27% (17 requests) were made to Image.blob.ix.co.za and 2% (1 request) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (3.4 sec) relates to the external source Image.blob.ix.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 62.8 kB (2%)

Content Size

2.7 MB

After Optimization

2.6 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Southcoastvw.co.za main page is 2.7 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. 50% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 2.5 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 42.4 kB

  • Original 51.1 kB
  • After minification 34.9 kB
  • After compression 8.7 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 16.2 kB, which is 32% of the original size. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 42.4 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 808 B

  • Original 2.5 MB
  • After minification 2.5 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. South Coast VW images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 7.9 kB

  • Original 128.7 kB
  • After minification 128.5 kB
  • After compression 120.8 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

-28%

Potential reduce by 11.7 kB

  • Original 42.1 kB
  • After minification 32.8 kB
  • After compression 30.5 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. Southcoastvw.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 11.7 kB or 28% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 36 (65%)

Requests Now

55

After Optimization

19

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 55 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of South Coast VW. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 25 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 13 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

southcoastvw.co.za

southcoastvw.co.za

884 ms

southcoastvw.co.za

southcoastvw.co.za

1281 ms

www.southcoastvw.co.za

www.southcoastvw.co.za

3236 ms

js

js

76 ms

fbevents.js

fbevents.js

20 ms

css

css

2396 ms

select2.min.css

select2.min.css

1204 ms

fontawesome-all.min.css

fontawesome-all.min.css

1208 ms

style.css

style.css

1209 ms

custom.css

custom.css

1212 ms

ss.css

ss.css

1514 ms

side-nav.css

side-nav.css

1521 ms

widget.css

widget.css

1527 ms

swiper-bundle.min.css

swiper-bundle.min.css

1525 ms

ci.css

ci.css

1523 ms

dcard.css

dcard.css

1811 ms

sig-e6-core.css

sig-e6-core.css

1819 ms

sig-e6-ss.css

sig-e6-ss.css

1824 ms

jquery

jquery

1536 ms

bootstrap

bootstrap

1561 ms

jquery.inputmask.min.js

jquery.inputmask.min.js

1285 ms

engine

engine

1285 ms

LazyLoader.min.js

LazyLoader.min.js

938 ms

Wishlist.min.js

Wishlist.min.js

1285 ms

Widget.min.js

Widget.min.js

1505 ms

select2.min.js

select2.min.js

1520 ms

ImageRotator.min.js

ImageRotator.min.js

1529 ms

fingerprint.min.js

fingerprint.min.js

1574 ms

WGLHashing.min.js

WGLHashing.min.js

1798 ms

blueimp-gallery.min.js

blueimp-gallery.min.js

3027 ms

blueimp-gallery-youtube.min.js

blueimp-gallery-youtube.min.js

1832 ms

blueimp-gallery-video.min.js

blueimp-gallery-video.min.js

1848 ms

blueimp-gallery-indicator.min.js

blueimp-gallery-indicator.min.js

1854 ms

script.js

script.js

1854 ms

side-nav.js

side-nav.js

2092 ms

custom.js

custom.js

2131 ms

swiper-bundle.min.js

swiper-bundle.min.js

2156 ms

skrollr.min.js

skrollr.min.js

2155 ms

ci.js

ci.js

2159 ms

dcard.js

dcard.js

2388 ms

sig-e6-core.js

sig-e6-core.js

2431 ms

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2730 ms

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2161 ms

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2669 ms

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2779 ms

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3256 ms

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3297 ms

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3030 ms

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3040 ms

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3078 ms

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3318 ms

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3328 ms

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3341 ms

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ix_blue_150x120.svg

3380 ms

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vwhead-light.woff2

1173 ms

vwhead-bold.woff2

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1177 ms

vwtext-regular.woff2

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1198 ms

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1403 ms

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1750 ms

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1474 ms

Accessibility Review

southcoastvw.co.za accessibility score

87

Accessibility Issues

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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

Best Practices

southcoastvw.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

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

southcoastvw.co.za SEO score

88

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Southcoastvw.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 Southcoastvw.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

southcoastvw.co.za

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of South Coast VW. 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: