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Report Summary

  • 53

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    70% of other websites

  • 81

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 51% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    94% of websites

techmet.co.za

Afritech SMT | 011 842 1427

Page Load Speed

7.4 sec in total

First Response

788 ms

Resources Loaded

6.5 sec

Page Rendered

104 ms

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About Website

Welcome to techmet.co.za homepage info - get ready to check Techmet best content right away, or after learning these important things about techmet.co.za

Techmet was established in 1985 in Wadeville, Germiston, and is with Afrisol, Techmet SMT, Brazing and Silver Solders part of SMT Afritech

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Key Findings

We analyzed Techmet.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 788 ms and then it took 6.6 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

techmet.co.za performance score

53

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.9 s

25/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.9 s

3/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.5 s

26/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value190 ms

91/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value7.4 s

49/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

techmet.co.za

788 ms

smtafritech.co.za

1021 ms

wpstyles.css

484 ms

jquery.js

1507 ms

jquery.event.move.js

734 ms

Our browser made a total of 40 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 3% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Techmet.co.za, 90% (36 requests) were made to Smtafritech.co.za and 5% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (3.4 sec) relates to the external source Smtafritech.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 65.8 kB (16%)

Content Size

422.8 kB

After Optimization

357.1 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Techmet.co.za main page is 422.8 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 315.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 30.1 kB

  • Original 35.0 kB
  • After minification 33.1 kB
  • After compression 4.9 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 30.1 kB or 86% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 24.2 kB

  • Original 315.1 kB
  • After minification 290.9 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. Techmet images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-16%

Potential reduce by 11.3 kB

  • Original 72.1 kB
  • After minification 72.1 kB
  • After compression 60.8 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 11.3 kB or 16% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-31%

Potential reduce by 197 B

  • Original 634 B
  • After minification 634 B
  • After compression 437 B

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. Techmet.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 197 B or 31% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 5 (13%)

Requests Now

38

After Optimization

33

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 38 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Techmet. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 6 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

techmet.co.za

techmet.co.za

788 ms

smtafritech.co.za

smtafritech.co.za

1021 ms

wpstyles.css

wpstyles.css

484 ms

jquery.js

jquery.js

1507 ms

jquery.event.move.js

jquery.event.move.js

734 ms

jquery.event.swipe.js

jquery.event.swipe.js

487 ms

jquery.wpslider.js

jquery.wpslider.js

770 ms

analytics.js

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34 ms

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27 ms

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69 ms

Accessibility Review

techmet.co.za accessibility score

81

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

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.

Best Practices

techmet.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

techmet.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 Techmet.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 Techmet.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

techmet.co.za

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