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Report Summary

  • 100

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    97% of other websites

  • 54

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 23% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 69

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    28% of websites

webdesign4u.co.za

Web Design 4u ™ | Digital Marketing South Africa | Johannesburg, Durban and Cape Town

Page Load Speed

1.9 sec in total

First Response

523 ms

Resources Loaded

1.3 sec

Page Rendered

85 ms

webdesign4u.co.za screenshot

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Webdesign4u.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 523 ms and then it took 1.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 30% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

webdesign4u.co.za performance score

100

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.3 s

98/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value1.5 s

99/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value1.9 s

100/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value10 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value1.5 s

100/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

webdesign4u.co.za

523 ms

styles.css

97 ms

AC_RunActiveContent.js

192 ms

skypeCheck.js

8 ms

ga.js

9 ms

Our browser made a total of 27 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 89% of them (24 requests) were addressed to the original Webdesign4u.co.za, 7% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 4% (1 request) were made to Download.skype.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (577 ms) belongs to the original domain Webdesign4u.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 50.9 kB (12%)

Content Size

410.1 kB

After Optimization

359.3 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Webdesign4u.co.za main page is 410.1 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. 25% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 340.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 23.3 kB

  • Original 27.6 kB
  • After minification 20.6 kB
  • After compression 4.3 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 7.0 kB, which is 25% 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 23.3 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 12.3 kB

  • Original 340.8 kB
  • After minification 328.6 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. Web Design 4u images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-37%

Potential reduce by 15.2 kB

  • Original 41.0 kB
  • After minification 40.6 kB
  • After compression 25.9 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 15.2 kB or 37% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-17%

Potential reduce by 111 B

  • Original 637 B
  • After minification 637 B
  • After compression 526 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. Webdesign4u.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 111 B or 17% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

26

After Optimization

26

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 26 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Web Design 4u. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Network Requests Diagram

webdesign4u.co.za

webdesign4u.co.za

523 ms

styles.css

styles.css

97 ms

AC_RunActiveContent.js

AC_RunActiveContent.js

192 ms

skypeCheck.js

skypeCheck.js

8 ms

ga.js

ga.js

9 ms

globe.gif

globe.gif

96 ms

logo.gif

logo.gif

97 ms

header-banner.gif

header-banner.gif

191 ms

tab_blue2.jpg

tab_blue2.jpg

190 ms

line-image.gif

line-image.gif

192 ms

top-right.jpg

top-right.jpg

191 ms

homepic2.jpg

homepic2.jpg

192 ms

advert.png

advert.png

568 ms

home.jpg

home.jpg

288 ms

1948.gif

1948.gif

287 ms

host.gif

host.gif

289 ms

email.gif

email.gif

289 ms

web.gif

web.gif

290 ms

domain.gif

domain.gif

384 ms

button-bottom-sme.png

button-bottom-sme.png

479 ms

button-bottom-skills.png

button-bottom-skills.png

479 ms

button-bottom-digitalmarketing.png

button-bottom-digitalmarketing.png

480 ms

button-bottom-searchengines.png

button-bottom-searchengines.png

481 ms

buttons2.jpg

buttons2.jpg

480 ms

back2.jpg

back2.jpg

577 ms

back.jpg

back.jpg

577 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

11 ms

Accessibility Review

webdesign4u.co.za accessibility score

54

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

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

webdesign4u.co.za best practices score

67

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

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

webdesign4u.co.za SEO score

69

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Webdesign4u.co.za can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Webdesign4u.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.

Social Sharing Optimization

webdesign4u.co.za

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Web Design 4u. 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: