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Report Summary

  • 6

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    21% of other websites

  • 79

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 47% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 84

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    52% of websites

sunsilicates.co.za

Perlite, Soluble Silicates & Vermiculite Suppliers

Page Load Speed

22.6 sec in total

First Response

4.7 sec

Resources Loaded

17.3 sec

Page Rendered

593 ms

sunsilicates.co.za screenshot

About Website

Welcome to sunsilicates.co.za homepage info - get ready to check Sun Silicates best content for South Africa right away, or after learning these important things about sunsilicates.co.za

Sun Silicates is a dynamic team of engineers & chemical specialists. We supply Vermiculite, Perlite, Attapulgite & Soluble Silicates.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Sunsilicates.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 4.7 sec and then it took 17.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 95% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

sunsilicates.co.za performance score

6

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value18.5 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value34.4 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value34.8 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,730 ms

3/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.351

31/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value58.7 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

sunsilicates.co.za

4661 ms

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693 ms

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1732 ms

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1729 ms

Our browser made a total of 125 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 64% of them (80 requests) were addressed to the original Sunsilicates.co.za, 14% (18 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 7% (9 requests) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (4.7 sec) belongs to the original domain Sunsilicates.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 2.1 MB (35%)

Content Size

6.0 MB

After Optimization

3.9 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Sunsilicates.co.za main page is 6.0 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. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Images take 3.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 92.9 kB

  • Original 114.0 kB
  • After minification 110.4 kB
  • After compression 21.1 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 92.9 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 66.1 kB

  • Original 3.2 MB
  • After minification 3.2 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. Sun Silicates images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-52%

Potential reduce by 487.9 kB

  • Original 932.7 kB
  • After minification 919.7 kB
  • After compression 444.7 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 487.9 kB or 52% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 1.4 MB

  • Original 1.7 MB
  • After minification 1.5 MB
  • After compression 251.8 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. Sunsilicates.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 1.4 MB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 79 (76%)

Requests Now

104

After Optimization

25

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 104 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Sun Silicates. 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 46 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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Accessibility Review

sunsilicates.co.za accessibility score

79

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

High

Some elements have a [tabindex] value greater than 0

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

sunsilicates.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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

sunsilicates.co.za SEO score

84

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

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 Sunsilicates.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 Sunsilicates.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

sunsilicates.co.za

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