Report Summary

  • 91

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    91% of other websites

  • 57

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 24% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 77

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    36% of websites

zpc.co.zw

Zimbabwe Power Company - Powering Zimbabwe into the future

Page Load Speed

9.2 sec in total

First Response

1.2 sec

Resources Loaded

7.8 sec

Page Rendered

154 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Zpc.co.zw page load time and found that the first response time was 1.2 sec and then it took 8 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

zpc.co.zw performance score

91

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.1 s

80/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.1 s

95/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.3 s

41/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value2.1 s

99/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

zpc.co.zw

1241 ms

1234 ms

www.zpc.co.zw

928 ms

1330 ms

css

37 ms

Our browser made a total of 38 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 79% of them (30 requests) were addressed to the original Zpc.co.zw, 8% (3 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 8% (3 requests) were made to Ssl.google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.8 sec) belongs to the original domain Zpc.co.zw.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 55.1 kB (9%)

Content Size

581.3 kB

After Optimization

526.2 kB

In fact, the total size of Zpc.co.zw main page is 581.3 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. 25% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 354.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-70%

Potential reduce by 18.1 kB

  • Original 25.7 kB
  • After minification 20.4 kB
  • After compression 7.7 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 5.3 kB, which is 21% 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 18.1 kB or 70% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 28.7 kB

  • Original 354.1 kB
  • After minification 325.4 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. Zpc images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 7.0 kB

  • Original 194.1 kB
  • After minification 194.1 kB
  • After compression 187.2 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

-19%

Potential reduce by 1.3 kB

  • Original 7.3 kB
  • After minification 7.3 kB
  • After compression 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. Zpc.co.zw needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 1.3 kB or 19% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 4 (13%)

Requests Now

31

After Optimization

27

The browser has sent 31 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Zpc. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 5 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

zpc.co.zw accessibility score

57

Accessibility Issues

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

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

zpc.co.zw best practices score

83

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

SEO Factors

zpc.co.zw SEO score

77

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

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

    ISO-8859-1

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

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