Report Summary

  • 31

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    51% of other websites

  • 92

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 80% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 85

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    56% of websites

ascotss.co.za

Industrial Catering, Commercial Laundry Equipment & Kitchen Equipment - Ascot Site Solutions

Page Load Speed

6 sec in total

First Response

549 ms

Resources Loaded

5.2 sec

Page Rendered

253 ms

ascotss.co.za screenshot

About Website

Click here to check amazing Ascot Ss content. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about ascotss.co.za

Ascot is a leading supplier of large scale industrial catering and industrial / commercial laundry equipment with four decades of experience in unique sites across Africa.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Ascotss.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 549 ms and then it took 5.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 75% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

ascotss.co.za performance score

31

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.4 s

7/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value10.8 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.2 s

20/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value670 ms

45/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.099

90/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value14.3 s

9/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

ascotss.co.za

549 ms

www.ascotss.co.za

1768 ms

ascot-solutions.css

280 ms

all.min.css

22 ms

banner-style.css

533 ms

Our browser made a total of 45 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 78% of them (35 requests) were addressed to the original Ascotss.co.za, 9% (4 requests) were made to Cdnjs.cloudflare.com and 4% (2 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.3 sec) belongs to the original domain Ascotss.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 81.4 kB (9%)

Content Size

943.5 kB

After Optimization

862.0 kB

In fact, the total size of Ascotss.co.za main page is 943.5 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. 55% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 868.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 17.3 kB

  • Original 22.7 kB
  • After minification 19.8 kB
  • After compression 5.4 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 2.9 kB, which is 13% 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 17.3 kB or 76% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 45.7 kB

  • Original 868.9 kB
  • After minification 823.3 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. Ascot Ss images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-9%

Potential reduce by 2.9 kB

  • Original 34.4 kB
  • After minification 34.4 kB
  • After compression 31.5 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

-89%

Potential reduce by 15.5 kB

  • Original 17.4 kB
  • After minification 3.0 kB
  • After compression 1.9 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. Ascotss.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 15.5 kB or 89% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 7 (18%)

Requests Now

38

After Optimization

31

The browser has sent 38 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Ascot Ss. 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 from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

ascotss.co.za accessibility score

92

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

ascotss.co.za best practices score

92

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

SEO Factors

ascotss.co.za SEO score

85

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

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 Ascotss.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 Ascotss.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 Ascot Ss. 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: