Report Summary

  • 18

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    34% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    19% of websites

  • 81

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    43% of websites

trident.co.za

Trident Steel | Steel solutions | Tested Trusted Trident

Page Load Speed

22 sec in total

First Response

799 ms

Resources Loaded

18 sec

Page Rendered

3.1 sec

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About Website

Visit trident.co.za now to see the best up-to-date Trident content and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about trident.co.za

Trident Steel is a leading Automotive and Speciality Steel Service Centre in Southern Africa, specialising in a wide range of steel solutions

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Key Findings

We analyzed Trident.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 799 ms and then it took 21.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is an excellent result, as only a small number of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

trident.co.za performance score

18

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value8.3 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.0 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value24.8 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,830 ms

9/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.066

97/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value47.6 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

trident.co.za

799 ms

analytics.js

61 ms

superfish.css

254 ms

align.module.css

507 ms

fieldgroup.module.css

515 ms

Our browser made a total of 199 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 97% of them (194 requests) were addressed to the original Trident.co.za, 2% (3 requests) were made to Cdn.jsdelivr.net and 1% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (12.2 sec) belongs to the original domain Trident.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 2.2 MB (8%)

Content Size

26.0 MB

After Optimization

23.8 MB

In fact, the total size of Trident.co.za main page is 26.0 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 25.7 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 72.5 kB

  • Original 85.3 kB
  • After minification 72.5 kB
  • After compression 12.8 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 12.8 kB, which is 15% of the original size. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 72.5 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 2.1 MB

  • Original 25.7 MB
  • After minification 23.6 MB

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. Trident images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-11%

Potential reduce by 18.0 kB

  • Original 161.8 kB
  • After minification 160.5 kB
  • After compression 143.9 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 18.0 kB or 11% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-32%

Potential reduce by 19.3 kB

  • Original 60.0 kB
  • After minification 57.5 kB
  • After compression 40.7 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. Trident.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 19.3 kB or 32% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 71 (36%)

Requests Now

196

After Optimization

125

The browser has sent 196 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Trident. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 46 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 27 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

trident.co.za accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

trident.co.za best practices score

58

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

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

trident.co.za SEO score

81

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Content Best Practices

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

Impact

Issue

High

Links do not have descriptive text

Crawling and Indexing

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

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

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 Trident.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 Trident.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

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