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Report Summary

  • 52

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    69% of other websites

  • 88

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 68% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    94% of websites

techlibrary.co.za

The Technical Library - information in engineering, mining industries - Home

Page Load Speed

6.7 sec in total

First Response

916 ms

Resources Loaded

5.7 sec

Page Rendered

110 ms

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About Website

Click here to check amazing Tech Library content. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about techlibrary.co.za

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Key Findings

We analyzed Techlibrary.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 916 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 75% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

techlibrary.co.za performance score

52

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.2 s

8/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.9 s

7/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.8 s

49/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value260 ms

83/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.043

99/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value7.1 s

51/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

techlibrary.co.za

916 ms

beng-proxy.js

722 ms

font-awesome.min.css

25 ms

popup-guistrap.css

727 ms

widget-runtime.css

729 ms

Our browser made a total of 33 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 21% of them (7 requests) were addressed to the original Techlibrary.co.za, 42% (14 requests) were made to Sites.dedicated.co.za and 21% (7 requests) were made to Fonts.cm4all.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.5 sec) belongs to the original domain Techlibrary.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 274.2 kB (29%)

Content Size

949.2 kB

After Optimization

675.0 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Techlibrary.co.za main page is 949.2 kB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 30% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 646.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 20.7 kB

  • Original 27.2 kB
  • After minification 26.9 kB
  • After compression 6.5 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 20.7 kB or 76% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-18%

Potential reduce by 115.2 kB

  • Original 646.7 kB
  • After minification 531.5 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. Obviously, Tech Library needs image optimization as it can save up to 115.2 kB or 18% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-48%

Potential reduce by 119.2 kB

  • Original 250.3 kB
  • After minification 249.5 kB
  • After compression 131.1 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 119.2 kB or 48% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 19.1 kB

  • Original 25.0 kB
  • After minification 21.2 kB
  • After compression 5.9 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. Techlibrary.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 19.1 kB or 76% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 15 (60%)

Requests Now

25

After Optimization

10

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 25 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Tech Library. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 9 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 8 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

techlibrary.co.za

techlibrary.co.za

916 ms

beng-proxy.js

beng-proxy.js

722 ms

font-awesome.min.css

font-awesome.min.css

25 ms

popup-guistrap.css

popup-guistrap.css

727 ms

widget-runtime.css

widget-runtime.css

729 ms

deploy.css

deploy.css

736 ms

slideshow-common.css

slideshow-common.css

736 ms

jquery.js

jquery.js

997 ms

prototype.js

prototype.js

1208 ms

legacy.js

legacy.js

972 ms

widget-runtime.js

widget-runtime.js

1222 ms

slideshow-common.js

slideshow-common.js

988 ms

deploy.js

deploy.js

987 ms

main.css

main.css

1219 ms

vars.css

vars.css

276 ms

css

css

354 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

58 ms

12_63475_4

12_63475_4

254 ms

Boabab.jpg

Boabab.jpg

613 ms

Suggestions.png

Suggestions.png

883 ms

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Linkedin%20logo.jpg

618 ms

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_pixel.img

259 ms

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715 ms

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699 ms

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704 ms

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1 ms

collect

collect

12 ms

js

js

91 ms

TTL%20Logo.png

TTL%20Logo.png

734 ms

Discipline.png

Discipline.png

2535 ms

Accessibility Review

techlibrary.co.za accessibility score

88

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

techlibrary.co.za best practices score

83

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

SEO Factors

techlibrary.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 Techlibrary.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 Techlibrary.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

techlibrary.co.za

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