Report Summary

  • 6

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    21% of other websites

  • 91

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 77% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

pastelevolution.co.za

Sage 200 Evolution: Online Business Management Software Solution | Sage South Africa

Page Load Speed

6.8 sec in total

First Response

1.5 sec

Resources Loaded

5.1 sec

Page Rendered

212 ms

pastelevolution.co.za screenshot

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Pastelevolution.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 1.5 sec and then it took 5.3 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

pastelevolution.co.za performance score

6

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value26.7 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value27.6 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value54.2 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,740 ms

10/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.455

20/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value40.6 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

pastelevolution.co.za

1451 ms

Softline.css

1014 ms

floatbox.css

766 ms

framebox.js

1299 ms

jquery-1.9.1.min.js

1823 ms

Our browser made a total of 53 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 87% of them (46 requests) were addressed to the original Pastelevolution.co.za, 4% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 2% (1 request) were made to Platform.twitter.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.3 sec) belongs to the original domain Pastelevolution.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 320.8 kB (35%)

Content Size

918.3 kB

After Optimization

597.5 kB

In fact, the total size of Pastelevolution.co.za main page is 918.3 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. 35% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 555.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 22.3 kB

  • Original 28.4 kB
  • After minification 22.7 kB
  • After compression 6.1 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 5.7 kB, which is 20% 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 22.3 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-15%

Potential reduce by 84.5 kB

  • Original 555.7 kB
  • After minification 471.3 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. Obviously, Pastel Evolution needs image optimization as it can save up to 84.5 kB or 15% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-61%

Potential reduce by 179.1 kB

  • Original 292.4 kB
  • After minification 264.9 kB
  • After compression 113.3 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 179.1 kB or 61% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 35.0 kB

  • Original 41.8 kB
  • After minification 30.4 kB
  • After compression 6.9 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. Pastelevolution.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 35.0 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 17 (35%)

Requests Now

48

After Optimization

31

The browser has sent 48 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Pastel Evolution. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 15 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

pastelevolution.co.za accessibility score

91

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

Best Practices

pastelevolution.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

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

pastelevolution.co.za SEO score

86

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

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Pastelevolution.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 Pastelevolution.co.za main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

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