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Report Summary

  • 80

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    86% of other websites

  • 86

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 62% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 75

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    32% of websites

sifco.co.za

Page Load Speed

2.5 sec in total

First Response

434 ms

Resources Loaded

1.8 sec

Page Rendered

184 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Sifco.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 434 ms and then it took 2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 40% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

sifco.co.za performance score

80

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.0 s

50/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.3 s

70/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.0 s

94/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value300 ms

79/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.007

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value3.9 s

89/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

sifco.co.za

434 ms

bootstrap.min.css

320 ms

style.css

385 ms

bootstrap-responsive.css

411 ms

css

24 ms

Our browser made a total of 28 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 96% of them (27 requests) were addressed to the original Sifco.co.za, 4% (1 request) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (654 ms) belongs to the original domain Sifco.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 288.8 kB (27%)

Content Size

1.1 MB

After Optimization

796.6 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Sifco.co.za main page is 1.1 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. 15% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 747.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 7.8 kB

  • Original 9.8 kB
  • After minification 6.8 kB
  • After compression 2.0 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 3.0 kB, which is 30% 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 7.8 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 26.7 kB

  • Original 747.9 kB
  • After minification 721.2 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. Sifco images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-72%

Potential reduce by 128.4 kB

  • Original 177.4 kB
  • After minification 152.9 kB
  • After compression 49.0 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 128.4 kB or 72% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 125.9 kB

  • Original 150.2 kB
  • After minification 129.7 kB
  • After compression 24.4 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. Sifco.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 125.9 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 9 (39%)

Requests Now

23

After Optimization

14

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 23 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Sifco. 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 from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

sifco.co.za

sifco.co.za

434 ms

bootstrap.min.css

bootstrap.min.css

320 ms

style.css

style.css

385 ms

bootstrap-responsive.css

bootstrap-responsive.css

411 ms

css

css

24 ms

jquery-1.8.1.min.js

jquery-1.8.1.min.js

562 ms

bootstrap.min.js

bootstrap.min.js

420 ms

jquery.flexslider.js

jquery.flexslider.js

475 ms

jquery.tweet.js

jquery.tweet.js

350 ms

jquery.quicksand.js

jquery.quicksand.js

386 ms

superfish.js

superfish.js

450 ms

custom.js

custom.js

476 ms

font-awesome.css

font-awesome.css

139 ms

flexslider.css

flexslider.css

124 ms

logo-bg.png

logo-bg.png

148 ms

logo.jpg

logo.jpg

144 ms

slide.jpg

slide.jpg

642 ms

slide-1.jpg

slide-1.jpg

560 ms

slide-2.jpg

slide-2.jpg

481 ms

slide-3.jpg

slide-3.jpg

420 ms

slide-4.jpg

slide-4.jpg

385 ms

small-box.png

small-box.png

351 ms

2.png

2.png

519 ms

7.png

7.png

518 ms

4.png

4.png

609 ms

fontawesome-webfont.woff

fontawesome-webfont.woff

654 ms

bg_direction_nav_2.png

bg_direction_nav_2.png

86 ms

fontawesome-webfont.ttf

fontawesome-webfont.ttf

121 ms

Accessibility Review

sifco.co.za accessibility score

86

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

Document doesn't have a <title> element

High

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

Best Practices

sifco.co.za best practices score

92

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

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

sifco.co.za SEO score

75

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

Document doesn't have a <title> element

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Page is blocked from indexing

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

    N/A

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Sifco.co.za can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Unfortunately we cannot identify language used on the page (probably there is a mix of languages, too little text or something else) and no language is claimed in <html> or <meta> tags either. Our system also found out that Sifco.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

sifco.co.za

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