Report Summary

  • 17

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    32% of other websites

  • 85

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 60% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 90

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    68% of websites

westgate.com.ng

Westgate Technologies – An E-Commerce store for Laptops, Computers, Desktops, Printers, Smartphones based in Nigeria

Page Load Speed

7.6 sec in total

First Response

2.7 sec

Resources Loaded

4.5 sec

Page Rendered

418 ms

westgate.com.ng screenshot

About Website

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Your one Stop Centre for ICT products, providing various ranges of products like Desktop computers,Laptops,Servers,Printers etc at an affordable cost

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Key Findings

We analyzed Westgate.com.ng page load time and found that the first response time was 2.7 sec and then it took 4.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 70% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

westgate.com.ng performance score

17

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.0 s

83/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.7 s

3/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value29.1 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value33,460 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.233

53/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value52.6 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

westgate.com.ng

2680 ms

css

26 ms

e8aaf84baccf10a5b371561e3b4178ce_all.css

102 ms

87a795d66ec900029f52e0a2eba4346d.js

210 ms

config.css.php

108 ms

Our browser made a total of 201 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 90% of them (181 requests) were addressed to the original Westgate.com.ng, 2% (5 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 2% (4 requests) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.7 sec) belongs to the original domain Westgate.com.ng.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.4 MB (27%)

Content Size

5.3 MB

After Optimization

3.9 MB

In fact, the total size of Westgate.com.ng main page is 5.3 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. 80% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Images take 4.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-89%

Potential reduce by 163.8 kB

  • Original 183.9 kB
  • After minification 183.8 kB
  • After compression 20.1 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. 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 163.8 kB or 89% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-11%

Potential reduce by 443.7 kB

  • Original 4.1 MB
  • After minification 3.6 MB

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, Westgate needs image optimization as it can save up to 443.7 kB or 11% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 723.5 kB

  • Original 944.5 kB
  • After minification 724.4 kB
  • After compression 221.1 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 723.5 kB or 77% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 117.6 kB

  • Original 143.1 kB
  • After minification 139.9 kB
  • After compression 25.5 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. Westgate.com.ng needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 117.6 kB or 82% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 18 (9%)

Requests Now

194

After Optimization

176

The browser has sent 194 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Westgate. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 8 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

westgate.com.ng accessibility score

85

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

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

westgate.com.ng 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

westgate.com.ng SEO score

90

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

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 Westgate.com.ng 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 Westgate.com.ng 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 Westgate. 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: