Report Summary

  • 47

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    66% of other websites

  • 84

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 57% of websites

  • 0

    Best Practices

  • 0

    SEO

writeskills.co.za

Write Skills – Welcome to Write Skills

Page Load Speed

13.3 sec in total

First Response

4 sec

Resources Loaded

9.1 sec

Page Rendered

141 ms

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About Website

Click here to check amazing Write Skills content. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about writeskills.co.za

Write Skills provides editing, writing and scribing services to academic, government and corporate clients.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Writeskills.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 4 sec and then it took 9.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 85% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

writeskills.co.za performance score

47

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value7.2 s

1/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.8 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value11.7 s

4/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value10 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.113

86/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value9.3 s

31/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.writeskills.co.za

4023 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

723 ms

font-awesome.min.css

666 ms

theme.global.css

1111 ms

template_1.css

1361 ms

Our browser made a total of 27 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 74% of them (20 requests) were addressed to the original Writeskills.co.za, 7% (2 requests) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com and 7% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (4 sec) belongs to the original domain Writeskills.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.1 MB (81%)

Content Size

1.3 MB

After Optimization

259.9 kB

In fact, the total size of Writeskills.co.za main page is 1.3 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. CSS take 1.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-72%

Potential reduce by 11.9 kB

  • Original 16.4 kB
  • After minification 16.0 kB
  • After compression 4.5 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. 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 11.9 kB or 72% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-26%

Potential reduce by 18.3 kB

  • Original 69.6 kB
  • After minification 51.3 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. Obviously, Write Skills needs image optimization as it can save up to 18.3 kB or 26% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-52%

Potential reduce by 97.8 kB

  • Original 187.2 kB
  • After minification 187.2 kB
  • After compression 89.4 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 97.8 kB or 52% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-89%

Potential reduce by 958.8 kB

  • Original 1.1 MB
  • After minification 1.0 MB
  • After compression 114.7 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. Writeskills.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 958.8 kB or 89% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 17 (74%)

Requests Now

23

After Optimization

6

The browser has sent 23 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Write Skills. 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 from 12 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

writeskills.co.za accessibility score

84

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

SEO Factors

writeskills.co.za SEO score

0

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    N/A

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Writeskills.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), while the claimed language is English. Our system also found out that Writeskills.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 Write Skills. 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: