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Report Summary

  • 15

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    27% of other websites

  • 80

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 49% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 78

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    39% of websites

spfa.co.za

Steel & Pipe Manufacturers & Suppliers in Cape Town

Page Load Speed

6.6 sec in total

First Response

600 ms

Resources Loaded

5.7 sec

Page Rendered

353 ms

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About Website

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Steel & Pipes for Africa is the largest & most preferred suppliers in the steel & allied industry in Cape Town. SABS & ISO certified. Visit site now!

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Key Findings

We analyzed Spfa.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 600 ms and then it took 6 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

spfa.co.za performance score

15

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value7.0 s

1/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value16.6 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value18.6 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value6,030 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.007

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value30.7 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

spfa.co.za

600 ms

spfa.co.za

1363 ms

layerslider.css

492 ms

style.min.css

742 ms

styles.css

750 ms

Our browser made a total of 82 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 72% of them (59 requests) were addressed to the original Spfa.co.za, 16% (13 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 5% (4 requests) were made to Maps.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.2 sec) belongs to the original domain Spfa.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 155.9 kB (7%)

Content Size

2.3 MB

After Optimization

2.2 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Spfa.co.za main page is 2.3 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 128.9 kB

  • Original 160.2 kB
  • After minification 157.1 kB
  • After compression 31.3 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. 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 128.9 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 3.6 kB

  • Original 1.3 MB
  • After minification 1.3 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. Spfa images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 5.5 kB

  • Original 700.8 kB
  • After minification 700.7 kB
  • After compression 695.3 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-9%

Potential reduce by 18.0 kB

  • Original 202.0 kB
  • After minification 201.8 kB
  • After compression 184.0 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. Spfa.co.za has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 52 (79%)

Requests Now

66

After Optimization

14

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 66 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Spfa. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 35 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 19 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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600 ms

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Accessibility Review

spfa.co.za accessibility score

80

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.

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

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

spfa.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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

spfa.co.za SEO score

78

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 Spfa.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 Spfa.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

spfa.co.za

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