Report Summary

  • 14

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    26% of other websites

  • 90

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 75% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    95% of websites

universalpaints.co.za

Universal Paints - The Colour Of Quality - Quality Paint

Page Load Speed

7.9 sec in total

First Response

2.1 sec

Resources Loaded

5.7 sec

Page Rendered

124 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Universalpaints.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 2.1 sec and then it took 5.8 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

universalpaints.co.za performance score

14

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.5 s

33/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.6 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.3 s

13/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value5,950 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.209

59/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value18.2 s

3/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

universalpaints.co.za

2056 ms

www.universalpaints.co.za

929 ms

main.css

263 ms

jmenu.css

522 ms

jquery.min.js

30 ms

Our browser made a total of 21 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 95% of them (20 requests) were addressed to the original Universalpaints.co.za, 5% (1 request) were made to Ajax.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.1 sec) belongs to the original domain Universalpaints.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 40.0 kB (12%)

Content Size

325.4 kB

After Optimization

285.3 kB

In fact, the total size of Universalpaints.co.za main page is 325.4 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. 15% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 295.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-62%

Potential reduce by 2.4 kB

  • Original 3.8 kB
  • After minification 3.7 kB
  • After compression 1.5 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 2.4 kB or 62% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 18.1 kB

  • Original 295.2 kB
  • After minification 277.1 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. Universal Paints images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 10.9 kB

  • Original 14.3 kB
  • After minification 11.8 kB
  • After compression 3.5 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 10.9 kB or 76% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-73%

Potential reduce by 8.7 kB

  • Original 12.0 kB
  • After minification 8.4 kB
  • After compression 3.3 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. Universalpaints.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 8.7 kB or 73% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 10 (53%)

Requests Now

19

After Optimization

9

The browser has sent 19 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Universal Paints. 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 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

universalpaints.co.za accessibility score

90

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.

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

ARIA IDs are not unique

Best Practices

universalpaints.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

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

universalpaints.co.za SEO score

100

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

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Universalpaints.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 Universalpaints.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 Universal Paints. 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: