Report Summary

  • 13

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    25% of other websites

  • 92

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 78% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    20% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    94% of websites

southerncrossmarketing.co.za

Finest quality fresh fruit. Particularly, table grapes and dates

Page Load Speed

6.5 sec in total

First Response

680 ms

Resources Loaded

5.6 sec

Page Rendered

227 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Southerncrossmarketing.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 680 ms and then it took 5.8 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

southerncrossmarketing.co.za performance score

13

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value12.6 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value15.5 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value16.4 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,070 ms

7/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.172

69/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value21.9 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

southerncrossmarketing.co.za

680 ms

southerncrossmarketing.co.za

1232 ms

product.css

514 ms

uikit.min.css

903 ms

progress.almost-flat.css

999 ms

Our browser made a total of 55 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 75% of them (41 requests) were addressed to the original Southerncrossmarketing.co.za, 11% (6 requests) were made to Youtube.com and 4% (2 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (3.1 sec) belongs to the original domain Southerncrossmarketing.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 393.1 kB (28%)

Content Size

1.4 MB

After Optimization

1.0 MB

In fact, the total size of Southerncrossmarketing.co.za main page is 1.4 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. 80% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Images take 703.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 20.2 kB

  • Original 25.6 kB
  • After minification 20.9 kB
  • After compression 5.3 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 4.7 kB, which is 18% 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 20.2 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 35.7 kB

  • Original 703.1 kB
  • After minification 667.4 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. Southerncrossmarketing images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 3.0 kB

  • Original 241.8 kB
  • After minification 241.8 kB
  • After compression 238.8 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

-73%

Potential reduce by 334.2 kB

  • Original 456.2 kB
  • After minification 455.4 kB
  • After compression 122.0 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. Southerncrossmarketing.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 334.2 kB or 73% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 31 (66%)

Requests Now

47

After Optimization

16

The browser has sent 47 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Southerncrossmarketing. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 19 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 14 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

southerncrossmarketing.co.za accessibility score

92

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

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

southerncrossmarketing.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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

southerncrossmarketing.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 Southerncrossmarketing.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 Southerncrossmarketing.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

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