Report Summary

  • 38

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    58% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    95% of websites

exceed.co.za

Exceed | Audit & Accounting | Tax & Advisory | HR & Recruitment

Page Load Speed

4.2 sec in total

First Response

743 ms

Resources Loaded

3.2 sec

Page Rendered

275 ms

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About Website

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

At Exceed our objective is to provide for all the financial, advisory, compliance, recruitment and human resource needs of our clients.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Exceed.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 743 ms and then it took 3.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 60% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

exceed.co.za performance score

38

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.8 s

28/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.0 s

2/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.6 s

38/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value680 ms

44/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.001

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value9.4 s

31/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.exceed.co.za

743 ms

screen.css

249 ms

custom.css

257 ms

slicknav.css

257 ms

responsive.css

261 ms

Our browser made a total of 36 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 86% of them (31 requests) were addressed to the original Exceed.co.za, 6% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 3% (1 request) were made to Googleadservices.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (769 ms) belongs to the original domain Exceed.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 233.7 kB (35%)

Content Size

668.8 kB

After Optimization

435.1 kB

In fact, the total size of Exceed.co.za main page is 668.8 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 344.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 33.9 kB

  • Original 42.6 kB
  • After minification 40.0 kB
  • After compression 8.7 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. 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 33.9 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 19.7 kB

  • Original 344.5 kB
  • After minification 324.8 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. Exceed images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-62%

Potential reduce by 153.3 kB

  • Original 246.8 kB
  • After minification 228.4 kB
  • After compression 93.4 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 153.3 kB or 62% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 26.8 kB

  • Original 34.9 kB
  • After minification 29.6 kB
  • After compression 8.1 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. Exceed.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 26.8 kB or 77% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 19 (56%)

Requests Now

34

After Optimization

15

The browser has sent 34 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Exceed. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 9 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

exceed.co.za accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

exceed.co.za 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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

exceed.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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Exceed.co.za can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Exceed.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 Exceed. 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: