Report Summary

  • 97

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    95% of other websites

  • 88

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 69% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 50

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    18% of websites

Page Load Speed

8.4 sec in total

First Response

1.5 sec

Resources Loaded

6.7 sec

Page Rendered

227 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Stmarys.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 1.5 sec and then it took 6.9 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

stmarys.co.za performance score

97

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.0 s

83/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.0 s

96/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value2.5 s

98/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value2.0 s

99/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.stmarys.co.za

1467 ms

css

25 ms

layerslider.css

273 ms

custom_vc_layout.css

524 ms

style.css

538 ms

Our browser made a total of 58 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 84% of them (49 requests) were addressed to the original Stmarys.co.za, 10% (6 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 3% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.5 sec) belongs to the original domain Stmarys.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 866.5 kB (56%)

Content Size

1.6 MB

After Optimization

688.9 kB

In fact, the total size of Stmarys.co.za main page is 1.6 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. 45% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 858.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 20.5 kB

  • Original 25.7 kB
  • After minification 24.8 kB
  • After compression 5.2 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 20.5 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 25.8 kB

  • Original 438.6 kB
  • After minification 412.9 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. Stmarys images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-73%

Potential reduce by 623.5 kB

  • Original 858.8 kB
  • After minification 843.2 kB
  • After compression 235.4 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 623.5 kB or 73% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 196.8 kB

  • Original 232.2 kB
  • After minification 212.8 kB
  • After compression 35.5 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. Stmarys.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 196.8 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 26 (51%)

Requests Now

51

After Optimization

25

The browser has sent 51 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Stmarys. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 14 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 14 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

stmarys.co.za accessibility score

88

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

Document doesn't have a <title> element

Best Practices

stmarys.co.za best practices score

75

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

SEO Factors

stmarys.co.za SEO score

50

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

Document doesn't have a <title> element

Crawling and Indexing

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

Impact

Issue

High

robots.txt is not valid

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    N/A

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Stmarys.co.za can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Unfortunately we cannot identify language used on the page (probably there is a mix of languages, too little text or something else), while the claimed language is English. Our system also found out that Stmarys.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 Stmarys. 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: