Report Summary

  • 16

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    30% of other websites

  • 90

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 75% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 96

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    91% of websites

open.co.za

Coworking & Shared Office Space | CPT, JHB & SA | Workshop17

Page Load Speed

1.7 sec in total

First Response

89 ms

Resources Loaded

1.3 sec

Page Rendered

316 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Open.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 89 ms and then it took 1.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 30% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

open.co.za performance score

16

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value7.5 s

1/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value15.3 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value11.5 s

5/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,440 ms

15/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.186

66/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value15.2 s

7/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

open.co.za

89 ms

bootstrap.min.css

17 ms

font-awesome.min.css

30 ms

pace-theme-minimal.css

26 ms

magnific-popup.css

8 ms

Our browser made a total of 41 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 56% of them (23 requests) were addressed to the original Open.co.za, 15% (6 requests) were made to Theopen.wufoo.com and 10% (4 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (539 ms) relates to the external source Theopen.wufoo.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 332.4 kB (29%)

Content Size

1.2 MB

After Optimization

818.4 kB

In fact, the total size of Open.co.za main page is 1.2 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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 699.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 19.4 kB

  • Original 25.6 kB
  • After minification 20.6 kB
  • After compression 6.3 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 5.0 kB, which is 19% 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 19.4 kB or 76% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 5.3 kB

  • Original 699.7 kB
  • After minification 694.4 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. Open images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-65%

Potential reduce by 151.5 kB

  • Original 231.8 kB
  • After minification 231.8 kB
  • After compression 80.3 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 151.5 kB or 65% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 156.2 kB

  • Original 193.6 kB
  • After minification 188.2 kB
  • After compression 37.4 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. Open.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 156.2 kB or 81% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 18 (53%)

Requests Now

34

After Optimization

16

The browser has sent 34 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Open. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 11 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 9 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

open.co.za accessibility score

90

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

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

open.co.za best practices score

75

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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

open.co.za SEO score

96

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

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

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 Open.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 Open.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 data is detected on the main page of Open. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: