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Report Summary

  • 15

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    27% of other websites

  • 98

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 94% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    75% of websites

dcd.co.za

DCD | Troops Protection & Landmine Detection

Page Load Speed

8.6 sec in total

First Response

2.2 sec

Resources Loaded

6.1 sec

Page Rendered

269 ms

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About Website

Click here to check amazing DCD content for South Africa. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about dcd.co.za

Armored vehicles protect military troops and landmine clearance personnel. Choose DCD’s armored vehicles for assured mobility and route clearance

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Key Findings

We analyzed Dcd.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 2.2 sec and then it took 6.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 80% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

dcd.co.za performance score

15

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value7.1 s

1/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value16.8 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value24.2 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,660 ms

1/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.052

99/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value34.7 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

dcd.co.za

2234 ms

default.css

1414 ms

ie.css

598 ms

skin.css

866 ms

container.css

544 ms

Our browser made a total of 60 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 97% of them (58 requests) were addressed to the original Dcd.co.za, 3% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.3 sec) belongs to the original domain Dcd.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 533.3 kB (40%)

Content Size

1.3 MB

After Optimization

789.0 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Dcd.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. 40% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 619.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-73%

Potential reduce by 26.2 kB

  • Original 36.0 kB
  • After minification 32.0 kB
  • After compression 9.7 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 4.0 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 26.2 kB or 73% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 23.9 kB

  • Original 619.9 kB
  • After minification 596.0 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. DCD images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-70%

Potential reduce by 396.0 kB

  • Original 565.0 kB
  • After minification 555.1 kB
  • After compression 169.0 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 396.0 kB or 70% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 87.2 kB

  • Original 101.4 kB
  • After minification 67.0 kB
  • After compression 14.3 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. Dcd.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 87.2 kB or 86% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 23 (41%)

Requests Now

56

After Optimization

33

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 56 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of DCD. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 14 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

dcd.co.za

dcd.co.za

2234 ms

default.css

default.css

1414 ms

ie.css

ie.css

598 ms

skin.css

skin.css

866 ms

container.css

container.css

544 ms

portal.css

portal.css

600 ms

StandardMenu.css

StandardMenu.css

813 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

1722 ms

jquery-migrate.min.js

jquery-migrate.min.js

907 ms

jquery-ui.min.js

jquery-ui.min.js

2017 ms

WebResource.axd

WebResource.axd

825 ms

Telerik.Web.UI.WebResource.axd

Telerik.Web.UI.WebResource.axd

1430 ms

dnn.js

dnn.js

935 ms

dnn.modalpopup.js

dnn.modalpopup.js

1098 ms

dnncore.js

dnncore.js

1207 ms

dnn.servicesframework.js

dnn.servicesframework.js

1370 ms

jquery.cycle.min.js

jquery.cycle.min.js

1493 ms

StandardMenu.js

StandardMenu.js

1492 ms

jquery.hoverIntent.min.js

jquery.hoverIntent.min.js

1641 ms

skin.css

skin.css

1692 ms

container.css

container.css

1465 ms

initWidgets.js

initWidgets.js

1471 ms

ga.js

ga.js

22 ms

bg.png

bg.png

309 ms

header.png

header.png

580 ms

rootItemR_Hover3.png

rootItemR_Hover3.png

272 ms

rootItemL_Hover3.png

rootItemL_Hover3.png

273 ms

transparent

transparent

283 ms

spacer10.png

spacer10.png

307 ms

DCD_rail-Small.png

DCD_rail-Small.png

561 ms

DCD_miningenergy-logo-small_new1.png

DCD_miningenergy-logo-small_new1.png

562 ms

DCD_defence-logo-small.png

DCD_defence-logo-small.png

562 ms

DCD_marine-logo-small.png

DCD_marine-logo-small.png

565 ms

Rail-home-img.png

Rail-home-img.png

849 ms

M_E-home-img.png

M_E-home-img.png

1165 ms

Defence-home-img.png

Defence-home-img.png

1420 ms

Marine-home-img.png

Marine-home-img.png

1419 ms

RollingstockHPs.png

RollingstockHPs.png

905 ms

RollingrollersHPs.png

RollingrollersHPs.png

907 ms

MetproHPs.png

MetproHPs.png

1131 ms

heavyengHPs.png

heavyengHPs.png

1210 ms

VencoHPs.png

VencoHPs.png

1208 ms

WindHPs.jpg

WindHPs.jpg

1427 ms

MSP.png

MSP.png

1445 ms

ProtectedHPs.png

ProtectedHPs.png

1522 ms

MarineHPs.png

MarineHPs.png

1523 ms

EBHSouthAfrica.png

EBHSouthAfrica.png

1729 ms

EBHNamibia.png

EBHNamibia.png

1730 ms

dcd_website-banners_home_03-image-of-impressive-city-infrastructure,-either-JHB-or-CT.jpg

dcd_website-banners_home_03-image-of-impressive-city-infrastructure,-either-JHB-or-CT.jpg

1729 ms

dcd_website-banners_home_02-shot-showing-the-scale-of-capabilities.jpg

dcd_website-banners_home_02-shot-showing-the-scale-of-capabilities.jpg

1731 ms

Home-page-spiral-casing.png

Home-page-spiral-casing.png

2071 ms

container_01.png

container_01.png

1803 ms

container_Group.png

container_Group.png

1997 ms

accolades1.gif

accolades1.gif

2318 ms

Footer-BG.jpg

Footer-BG.jpg

2028 ms

DCD_reversed-small.png

DCD_reversed-small.png

2055 ms

FB-fLogo-online.png

FB-fLogo-online.png

2089 ms

Twitter_logo_white.png

Twitter_logo_white.png

2280 ms

Youtubelogostacked.png

Youtubelogostacked.png

2303 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

13 ms

Accessibility Review

dcd.co.za accessibility score

98

Accessibility Issues

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Best Practices

dcd.co.za best practices score

83

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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

dcd.co.za SEO score

92

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

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 Dcd.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 Dcd.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

dcd.co.za

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