Access spar.co.za. SPAR - One of the largest retailers across Southern Africa.

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value10.3 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value25.5 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value17.3 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,370 ms

16/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.398

25/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value20.6 s

2/100

10%

spar.co.za

689 ms

www.spar.co.za

1160 ms

Home

1336 ms

gtm.js

71 ms

GetResource.ashx

857 ms

Our browser made a total of 103 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 62% of them (64 requests) were addressed to the original Spar.co.za, 8% (8 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com and 4% (4 requests) were made to Cdnjs.cloudflare.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.1 sec) belongs to the original domain Spar.co.za.

Content Size

3.2 MB

After Optimization

2.3 MB

In fact, the total size of Spar.co.za main page is 3.2 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. 75% 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 1.9 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-88%

Potential reduce by 764.3 kB

Original 865.4 kB
After minification 818.8 kB
After compression 101.1 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 764.3 kB or 88% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 58.1 kB

Original 1.9 MB
After minification 1.9 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. SPAR images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-23%

Potential reduce by 88.9 kB

Original 389.2 kB
After minification 380.1 kB
After compression 300.3 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 88.9 kB or 23% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 182 B

Original 2.1 kB
After minification 2.1 kB
After compression 2.0 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. Spar.co.za has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Now

After Optimization

The browser has sent 96 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of SPAR. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 33 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 14 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Issues

These are opportunities to improve the legibility of your content.

High

Background and foreground colors do not have a sufficient contrast ratio.

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

High

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

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.

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Areas of Improvement

High

Does not use HTTPS

High

Requests the geolocation permission on page load

High

Includes front-end JavaScript libraries with known security vulnerabilities

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

High

Serves images with low resolution

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

Search Engine Optimization Advices

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

High

Links are not crawlable

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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/).

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 Spar.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 Spar.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

spar.co.za

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

Report Summary

Performance

Accessibility

Best Practices

SEO

SPAR - One of the largest retailers across Southern Africa.

Page Load Speed

First Response

Resources Loaded

Page Rendered

About Website

Key Findings

Performance Metrics

Measured Metrics

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

SI (Speed Index)

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Network Requests Diagram

spar.co.za

www.spar.co.za

Home

gtm.js

GetResource.ashx

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Content Size

After Optimization

HTML Optimization

Image Optimization

JavaScript Optimization

CSS Optimization

Requests Breakdown

Requests Now

After Optimization

Network Requests Diagram

spar.co.za

www.spar.co.za

Home

gtm.js

GetResource.ashx

popper.min.js

GetCSS.aspx

GetCSS.aspx

GetCSS.aspx

GetCSS.aspx

css

css2

jquery.fancybox.min.css

GetResource.ashx

WebResource.axd

ScriptResource.axd

ScriptResource.axd

ScriptResource.axd

ScriptResource.axd

ScriptResource.axd

ScriptResource.axd

ScriptResource.axd

js

jquery-ui.min.css

jquery.fancybox.min.css

select2.min.js

select2.min.css

js

js

analytics.js

destination

destination

destination

destination

collect

collect

collect

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collect

ga-audiences

addthis_widget.js

GetResource.ashx

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