Report Summary

  • 19

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    36% of other websites

  • 80

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 50% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    84% of websites

Page Load Speed

6.7 sec in total

First Response

2.8 sec

Resources Loaded

3.8 sec

Page Rendered

158 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Skytouchmedia.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 2.8 sec and then it took 3.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 65% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

skytouchmedia.co.za performance score

19

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.8 s

4/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value10.1 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.4 s

12/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,890 ms

3/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.019

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value11.6 s

18/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

skytouchmedia.co.za

2801 ms

system.css

81 ms

modal.css

133 ms

k2.css

88 ms

jquery-ui.css

157 ms

Our browser made a total of 55 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 89% of them (49 requests) were addressed to the original Skytouchmedia.co.za, 5% (3 requests) were made to Ajax.googleapis.com and 5% (3 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.8 sec) belongs to the original domain Skytouchmedia.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.3 MB (75%)

Content Size

1.8 MB

After Optimization

448.3 kB

In fact, the total size of Skytouchmedia.co.za main page is 1.8 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. 45% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 17.7 kB

  • Original 22.3 kB
  • After minification 19.9 kB
  • After compression 4.6 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 2.5 kB, which is 11% 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 17.7 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-74%

Potential reduce by 759.8 kB

  • Original 1.0 MB
  • After minification 268.4 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. Obviously, Skytouchmedia needs image optimization as it can save up to 759.8 kB or 74% 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 315.2 kB

  • Original 448.8 kB
  • After minification 411.5 kB
  • After compression 133.6 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 315.2 kB or 70% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 249.3 kB

  • Original 291.0 kB
  • After minification 243.9 kB
  • After compression 41.7 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. Skytouchmedia.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 249.3 kB or 86% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 26 (52%)

Requests Now

50

After Optimization

24

The browser has sent 50 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Skytouchmedia. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 16 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 12 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

skytouchmedia.co.za accessibility score

80

Accessibility Issues

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

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

skytouchmedia.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

skytouchmedia.co.za SEO score

93

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

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    N/A

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Skytouchmedia.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), while the claimed language is English. Our system also found out that Skytouchmedia.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 description is not detected on the main page of Skytouchmedia. 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: