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Welcome to The Works Website, your one stop building solutions and services website, specializing in Quartz Carpet Seamless Stone Flooring, Earthcote and Midas Paints flooring applications
Visit theworks.co.zaWe analyzed Theworks.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 1.4 sec and then it took 8.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 85% of websites can load faster.
theworks.co.za performance score
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Our browser made a total of 39 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 74% of them (29 requests) were addressed to the original Theworks.co.za, 8% (3 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 5% (2 requests) were made to Facebook.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (3.8 sec) belongs to the original domain Theworks.co.za.
Page size can be reduced by 136.8 kB (40%)
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In fact, the total size of Theworks.co.za main page is 339.8 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. 20% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 161.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.
Potential reduce by 16.2 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 16.2 kB or 75% of the original size.
Potential reduce by 5.2 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. Theworks images are well optimized though.
Potential reduce by 109.5 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 109.5 kB or 74% of the original size.
Potential reduce by 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. Theworks.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 5.9 kB or 76% of the original size.
Number of requests can be reduced by 16 (42%)
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The browser has sent 38 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Theworks. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 7 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.
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theworks.co.za accessibility score
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
Document doesn't have a <title> element
Image elements do not have [alt] attributes
Internationalization and localization
These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.
Impact
Issue
<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute
theworks.co.za best practices score
Trust and Safety
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Issue
Does not use HTTPS
Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks
User Experience
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Issue
Serves images with low resolution
theworks.co.za SEO score
Content Best Practices
Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.
Impact
Issue
Document doesn't have a <title> element
Image elements do not have [alt] attributes
Crawling and Indexing
To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.
Impact
Issue
robots.txt is not valid
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ISO-8859-1
Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Theworks.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 Theworks.co.za main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. 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.
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Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Theworks. 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: