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Report Summary

  • 45

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    64% of other websites

  • 71

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 36% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    94% of websites

webfire.co.za

Web Design in Johannesburg, Durban and Cape Town | WebFire Digital

Page Load Speed

3.8 sec in total

First Response

970 ms

Resources Loaded

2.7 sec

Page Rendered

113 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Webfire.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 970 ms and then it took 2.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 55% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

webfire.co.za performance score

45

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.5 s

15/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.3 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value10.3 s

8/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value20 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.252

49/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value7.7 s

46/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.webfire.co.za

970 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

99 ms

style.min.css

194 ms

symple_shortcodes_styles.css

199 ms

style.css

201 ms

Our browser made a total of 44 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 82% of them (36 requests) were addressed to the original Webfire.co.za, 11% (5 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 5% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (970 ms) belongs to the original domain Webfire.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 36.9 kB (12%)

Content Size

307.3 kB

After Optimization

270.3 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Webfire.co.za main page is 307.3 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. 40% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 121.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 25.4 kB

  • Original 31.9 kB
  • After minification 28.4 kB
  • After compression 6.5 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 3.4 kB, which is 11% 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 25.4 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 1.7 kB

  • Original 121.9 kB
  • After minification 120.3 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 Fire images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 5.4 kB

  • Original 121.1 kB
  • After minification 120.5 kB
  • After compression 115.8 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-14%

Potential reduce by 4.6 kB

  • Original 32.3 kB
  • After minification 32.3 kB
  • After compression 27.8 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. Webfire.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 4.6 kB or 14% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 30 (79%)

Requests Now

38

After Optimization

8

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 38 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Web Fire. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 17 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 9 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

www.webfire.co.za

www.webfire.co.za

970 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

wp-emoji-release.min.js

99 ms

style.min.css

style.min.css

194 ms

symple_shortcodes_styles.css

symple_shortcodes_styles.css

199 ms

style.css

style.css

201 ms

inner.css

inner.css

198 ms

layout.css

layout.css

201 ms

flexslider.css

flexslider.css

200 ms

color.css

color.css

290 ms

prettyPhoto.css

prettyPhoto.css

291 ms

css

css

22 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

387 ms

jquery-migrate.min.js

jquery-migrate.min.js

293 ms

jquery-1.7.1.min.js

jquery-1.7.1.min.js

430 ms

hoverIntent.js

hoverIntent.js

294 ms

superfish.js

superfish.js

385 ms

supersubs.js

supersubs.js

428 ms

jquery.prettyPhoto.js

jquery.prettyPhoto.js

429 ms

fade.js

fade.js

427 ms

jquery-easing-1.3.js

jquery-easing-1.3.js

484 ms

jquery.tweetable.js

jquery.tweetable.js

483 ms

tinynav.min.js

tinynav.min.js

483 ms

custom.js

custom.js

489 ms

jquery.flexslider-min.js

jquery.flexslider-min.js

487 ms

flexslider-custom.js

flexslider-custom.js

492 ms

jquery.isotope.min.js

jquery.isotope.min.js

582 ms

logo.png

logo.png

184 ms

mail.png

mail.png

182 ms

call.png

call.png

211 ms

menu-arrow.png

menu-arrow.png

211 ms

twitter.png

twitter.png

212 ms

facebook.png

facebook.png

279 ms

s3-940x380-940x380.jpg

s3-940x380-940x380.jpg

373 ms

slider-shadow.png

slider-shadow.png

282 ms

dotted.png

dotted.png

281 ms

psd-guarantee-seal.png

psd-guarantee-seal.png

381 ms

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15 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

20 ms

collect

collect

28 ms

opacity.png

opacity.png

97 ms

Accessibility Review

webfire.co.za accessibility score

71

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.

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best practices

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

webfire.co.za best practices score

67

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

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

webfire.co.za SEO score

100

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Webfire.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 Webfire.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

webfire.co.za

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of Web Fire. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: