Report Summary

  • 96

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    94% of other websites

  • 87

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 66% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 75

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    32% of websites

thefrc.co.za

The Furniture Repair Centre. Why buy new if you can renew.

Page Load Speed

1.3 sec in total

First Response

308 ms

Resources Loaded

883 ms

Page Rendered

135 ms

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About Website

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

The Furniture Repair Centre repairs, refurbishes and generally overhauls any pieve of furniture. We create and repair top-quality furniture.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Thefrc.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 308 ms and then it took 1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 20% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

thefrc.co.za performance score

96

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value0.8 s

100/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.7 s

85/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value1.1 s

100/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value0.8 s

100/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

thefrc.co.za

308 ms

style.css

97 ms

headbar2.jpg

385 ms

placeholder.gif

194 ms

contactpics.jpg

576 ms

Our browser made a total of 12 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that all of those requests were addressed to Thefrc.co.za and no external sources were called. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (576 ms) belongs to the original domain Thefrc.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 31.2 kB (7%)

Content Size

437.2 kB

After Optimization

405.9 kB

In fact, the total size of Thefrc.co.za main page is 437.2 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. 15% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 427.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-56%

Potential reduce by 2.7 kB

  • Original 4.9 kB
  • After minification 4.7 kB
  • After compression 2.2 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 2.7 kB or 56% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 24.7 kB

  • Original 427.5 kB
  • After minification 402.8 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. Thefrc images are well optimized though.

CSS Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 3.9 kB

  • Original 4.8 kB
  • After minification 4.1 kB
  • After compression 988 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. Thefrc.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 3.9 kB or 80% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

11

After Optimization

11

The browser has sent 11 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Thefrc. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Accessibility Review

thefrc.co.za accessibility score

87

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.

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

Best Practices

thefrc.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

Serves images with low resolution

SEO Factors

thefrc.co.za SEO score

75

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    WINDOWS-1252

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Thefrc.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 Thefrc.co.za main page’s claimed encoding is windows-1252. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

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