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Report Summary

  • 10

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    23% of other websites

  • 80

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 49% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    20% of websites

  • 77

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    36% of websites

thelocalchoice.co.za

The Local Choice

Page Load Speed

2.1 sec in total

First Response

129 ms

Resources Loaded

1.9 sec

Page Rendered

58 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Thelocalchoice.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 129 ms and then it took 2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 40% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

thelocalchoice.co.za performance score

10

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.7 s

91/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value73.9 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value30.0 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,680 ms

1/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.763

5/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value75.5 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

thelocalchoice.co.za

129 ms

vendors-main-index.js.bundle.js

1239 ms

vendors-main-utils.js.bundle.js

186 ms

vendors-main-index.mjs.bundle.js

242 ms

vendors-main-createStyled.js.bundle.js

178 ms

Our browser made a total of 33 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that all of those requests were addressed to Thelocalchoice.co.za and no external sources were called. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.5 sec) belongs to the original domain Thelocalchoice.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 9.1 MB (70%)

Content Size

13.0 MB

After Optimization

3.9 MB

  • HTML
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Thelocalchoice.co.za main page is 13.0 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. 15% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 13.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 2.3 kB

  • Original 2.8 kB
  • After minification 2.8 kB
  • After compression 502 B

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 2.3 kB or 82% of the original size.

JavaScript Optimization

-70%

Potential reduce by 9.1 MB

  • Original 13.0 MB
  • After minification 13.0 MB
  • After compression 3.9 MB

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 9.1 MB or 70% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 32.1 kB

  • Original 39.1 kB
  • After minification 29.9 kB
  • After compression 7.0 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. Thelocalchoice.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 32.1 kB or 82% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 29 (91%)

Requests Now

32

After Optimization

3

  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 32 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of The Local Choice. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 30 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

thelocalchoice.co.za

thelocalchoice.co.za

129 ms

vendors-main-index.js.bundle.js

vendors-main-index.js.bundle.js

1239 ms

vendors-main-utils.js.bundle.js

vendors-main-utils.js.bundle.js

186 ms

vendors-main-index.mjs.bundle.js

vendors-main-index.mjs.bundle.js

242 ms

vendors-main-createStyled.js.bundle.js

vendors-main-createStyled.js.bundle.js

178 ms

vendors-main-colorManipulator.js.bundle.js

vendors-main-colorManipulator.js.bundle.js

185 ms

vendors-main-latest.json.bundle.js

vendors-main-latest.json.bundle.js

624 ms

vendors-main-zoom.js.bundle.js

vendors-main-zoom.js.bundle.js

349 ms

vendors-main-metadata.max.json.js.bundle.js

vendors-main-metadata.max.json.js.bundle.js

601 ms

vendors-main-metadata.js.bundle.js

vendors-main-metadata.js.bundle.js

362 ms

vendors-main-AsYouTypeParser.js.bundle.js

vendors-main-AsYouTypeParser.js.bundle.js

358 ms

vendors-main-AsYouTypeFormatter.js.bundle.js

vendors-main-AsYouTypeFormatter.js.bundle.js

438 ms

vendors-main-AsYouType.js.bundle.js

vendors-main-AsYouType.js.bundle.js

459 ms

vendors-main-dom7.esm.js.bundle.js

vendors-main-dom7.esm.js.bundle.js

468 ms

vendors-main-redux.js.bundle.js

vendors-main-redux.js.bundle.js

531 ms

vendors-main-react-number-format.es.js.bundle.js

vendors-main-react-number-format.es.js.bundle.js

546 ms

vendors-main-Helmet.js.bundle.js

vendors-main-Helmet.js.bundle.js

579 ms

vendors-main-ga4.js.bundle.js

vendors-main-ga4.js.bundle.js

633 ms

vendors-main-react-dom.production.min.js.bundle.js

vendors-main-react-dom.production.min.js.bundle.js

787 ms

vendors-main-moment.js.bundle.js

vendors-main-moment.js.bundle.js

726 ms

vendors-main-router.js.bundle.js

vendors-main-router.js.bundle.js

812 ms

vendors-main-redux-toolkit.esm.js.bundle.js

vendors-main-redux-toolkit.esm.js.bundle.js

762 ms

vendors-main-esm.js.bundle.js

vendors-main-esm.js.bundle.js

811 ms

vendors-main-useAutocomplete.js.bundle.js

vendors-main-useAutocomplete.js.bundle.js

828 ms

vendors-main-Tooltip.js.bundle.js

vendors-main-Tooltip.js.bundle.js

873 ms

vendors-main-Tabs.js.bundle.js

vendors-main-Tabs.js.bundle.js

885 ms

vendors-main-useSlider.js.bundle.js

vendors-main-useSlider.js.bundle.js

913 ms

vendors-main-Slider.js.bundle.js

vendors-main-Slider.js.bundle.js

902 ms

vendors-main-SelectInput.js.bundle.js

vendors-main-SelectInput.js.bundle.js

928 ms

943.bundle.js

943.bundle.js

1454 ms

main.bundle.js

main.bundle.js

1391 ms

vendors-main-autoplay.min.css%7C0%7C%7C%7C%7D%7D.css

vendors-main-autoplay.min.css%7C0%7C%7C%7C%7D%7D.css

991 ms

main.css

main.css

1006 ms

Accessibility Review

thelocalchoice.co.za accessibility score

80

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

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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

thelocalchoice.co.za best practices score

58

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

High

Requests the geolocation permission on page load

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

General

Impact

Issue

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

thelocalchoice.co.za SEO score

77

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

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

Impact

Issue

High

robots.txt is not valid

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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

    N/A

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Thelocalchoice.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) and no language is claimed in <html> or <meta> tags either. Our system also found out that Thelocalchoice.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

thelocalchoice.co.za

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of The Local Choice. 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: