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Report Summary

  • 78

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    85% of other websites

  • 43

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 19% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    75% of websites

rcworld.co.za

RC WORLD

Page Load Speed

1.1 sec in total

First Response

277 ms

Resources Loaded

623 ms

Page Rendered

215 ms

rcworld.co.za screenshot

About Website

Visit rcworld.co.za now to see the best up-to-date RC WORLD content for South Africa and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about rcworld.co.za

RC World is an online hobby shop based in Berea, East London - South Africa. We are determined to provide radio control at extremely affordable prices.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Rcworld.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 277 ms and then it took 838 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 15% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

rcworld.co.za performance score

78

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.4 s

36/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.9 s

52/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.4 s

89/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value30 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value4.9 s

77/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

rcworld.co.za

277 ms

mozilla.css

34 ms

epoch_styles.css

34 ms

epoch_classes.js

47 ms

crawler.js

36 ms

Our browser made a total of 62 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 94% of them (58 requests) were addressed to the original Rcworld.co.za, 3% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 2% (1 request) were made to Google.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (310 ms) belongs to the original domain Rcworld.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 269.4 kB (37%)

Content Size

728.6 kB

After Optimization

459.2 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Rcworld.co.za main page is 728.6 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. 45% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 364.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 42.8 kB

  • Original 50.8 kB
  • After minification 46.8 kB
  • After compression 8.0 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 42.8 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 9.8 kB

  • Original 364.3 kB
  • After minification 354.5 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. RC WORLD images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-69%

Potential reduce by 209.1 kB

  • Original 304.2 kB
  • After minification 285.9 kB
  • After compression 95.1 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 209.1 kB or 69% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 7.7 kB

  • Original 9.3 kB
  • After minification 6.4 kB
  • After compression 1.6 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. Rcworld.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 7.7 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 17 (28%)

Requests Now

61

After Optimization

44

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 61 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of RC WORLD. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 5 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

rcworld.co.za

rcworld.co.za

277 ms

mozilla.css

mozilla.css

34 ms

epoch_styles.css

epoch_styles.css

34 ms

epoch_classes.js

epoch_classes.js

47 ms

crawler.js

crawler.js

36 ms

api.js

api.js

70 ms

recaptcha__en.js

recaptcha__en.js

68 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

33 ms

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77 ms

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76 ms

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77 ms

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73 ms

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73 ms

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75 ms

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241 ms

Accessibility Review

rcworld.co.za accessibility score

43

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best practices

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

rcworld.co.za best practices score

75

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

rcworld.co.za SEO score

92

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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 Rcworld.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 Rcworld.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

rcworld.co.za

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