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Report Summary

  • 28

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    48% of other websites

  • 80

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 50% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 74

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    32% of websites

mcsofficesupplies.co.za

Online Stationery Shop | Centurion | MCS Office Supplies

Page Load Speed

7 sec in total

First Response

757 ms

Resources Loaded

6 sec

Page Rendered

235 ms

mcsofficesupplies.co.za screenshot

About Website

Welcome to mcsofficesupplies.co.za homepage info - get ready to check MCS Office Supplies best content for South Africa right away, or after learning these important things about mcsofficesupplies.co.za

Stationery online shop with thousands of stationery, office machines and equipment online. MCS Office Supplies is one of South Africa's leading online stationery suppliers.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Mcsofficesupplies.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 757 ms and then it took 6.2 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

mcsofficesupplies.co.za performance score

28

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.2 s

3/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value11.1 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value15.7 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value780 ms

37/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.019

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value10.9 s

21/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

mcsofficesupplies.co.za

757 ms

www.mcsofficesupplies.co.za

1133 ms

stylesheet.css

258 ms

slideshow.css

507 ms

carousel.css

507 ms

Our browser made a total of 81 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 88% of them (71 requests) were addressed to the original Mcsofficesupplies.co.za, 5% (4 requests) were made to Static.searchanise.com and 2% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.9 sec) belongs to the original domain Mcsofficesupplies.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 496.6 kB (52%)

Content Size

960.3 kB

After Optimization

463.7 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Mcsofficesupplies.co.za main page is 960.3 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. 40% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 393.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-88%

Potential reduce by 74.8 kB

  • Original 85.5 kB
  • After minification 61.8 kB
  • After compression 10.7 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 23.7 kB, which is 28% 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 74.8 kB or 88% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-16%

Potential reduce by 57.2 kB

  • Original 365.9 kB
  • After minification 308.7 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, MCS Office Supplies needs image optimization as it can save up to 57.2 kB or 16% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-70%

Potential reduce by 276.9 kB

  • Original 393.3 kB
  • After minification 385.6 kB
  • After compression 116.3 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 276.9 kB or 70% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 87.8 kB

  • Original 115.7 kB
  • After minification 95.9 kB
  • After compression 28.0 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. Mcsofficesupplies.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 87.8 kB or 76% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 26 (33%)

Requests Now

78

After Optimization

52

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 78 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of MCS Office Supplies. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 12 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

mcsofficesupplies.co.za

mcsofficesupplies.co.za

757 ms

www.mcsofficesupplies.co.za

www.mcsofficesupplies.co.za

1133 ms

stylesheet.css

stylesheet.css

258 ms

slideshow.css

slideshow.css

507 ms

carousel.css

carousel.css

507 ms

jquery-1.7.1.min.js

jquery-1.7.1.min.js

807 ms

jquery-ui-1.8.16.custom.min.js

jquery-ui-1.8.16.custom.min.js

1031 ms

jquery-ui-1.8.16.custom.css

jquery-ui-1.8.16.custom.css

512 ms

common.js

common.js

510 ms

jquery.cycle.js

jquery.cycle.js

758 ms

jquery.nivo.slider.pack.js

jquery.nivo.slider.pack.js

760 ms

jquery.jcarousel.min.js

jquery.jcarousel.min.js

763 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

31 ms

wrap_bg3.gif

wrap_bg3.gif

255 ms

Homepage-MCSofficeSupplies_logo.png

Homepage-MCSofficeSupplies_logo.png

508 ms

gb.png

gb.png

256 ms

arrow-down2.png

arrow-down2.png

259 ms

search_field.png

search_field.png

259 ms

search_button.png

search_button.png

258 ms

navigation_bg.png

navigation_bg.png

508 ms

menu_separator.png

menu_separator.png

508 ms

gradient.png

gradient.png

510 ms

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Typek_A4_White_OFFICE_PAPER-182x182.jpg

512 ms

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Buddi-Drawer-Systems-Banner-001-650x400.jpg

1019 ms

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1010 ms

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1266 ms

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767 ms

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769 ms

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768 ms

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1016 ms

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1017 ms

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1018 ms

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1263 ms

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1273 ms

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1273 ms

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1269 ms

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1270 ms

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1699 ms

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1700 ms

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1699 ms

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1700 ms

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1701 ms

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1701 ms

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1768 ms

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1774 ms

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1766 ms

init.js

init.js

140 ms

collect

collect

40 ms

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43 ms

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33 ms

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47 ms

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53 ms

index.php

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1887 ms

Pritt_logo-80x80.jpg

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1774 ms

Artline_logo-80x80.jpg

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1772 ms

Parker-80x80.jpg

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1775 ms

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1776 ms

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15 ms

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1529 ms

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1774 ms

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1775 ms

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1774 ms

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1775 ms

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1517 ms

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1623 ms

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1524 ms

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1518 ms

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1519 ms

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1631 ms

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1528 ms

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1774 ms

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1518 ms

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1521 ms

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1539 ms

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105 ms

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Accessibility Review

mcsofficesupplies.co.za accessibility score

80

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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.

Best Practices

mcsofficesupplies.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

mcsofficesupplies.co.za SEO score

74

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

High

robots.txt is not valid

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 Mcsofficesupplies.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 Mcsofficesupplies.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

mcsofficesupplies.co.za

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of MCS Office Supplies. 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: