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Report Summary

  • 64

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    77% of other websites

  • 70

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 35% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 99

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    93% of websites

4sa.co.za

4sa Technologies (PTY) LTD

Page Load Speed

4.1 sec in total

First Response

896 ms

Resources Loaded

3 sec

Page Rendered

174 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed 4sa.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 896 ms and then it took 3.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 60% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

4sa.co.za performance score

64

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.2 s

44/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.2 s

45/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.0 s

63/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.517

15/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value3.2 s

94/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

4sa.co.za

896 ms

_styles.css

313 ms

adapt.css

615 ms

4sa.png

643 ms

CARS.png

921 ms

Our browser made a total of 22 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 73% of them (16 requests) were addressed to the original 4sa.co.za, 23% (5 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 5% (1 request) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.5 sec) belongs to the original domain 4sa.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 13.1 kB (4%)

Content Size

364.9 kB

After Optimization

351.9 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of 4sa.co.za main page is 364.9 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. 25% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 355.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-70%

Potential reduce by 5.1 kB

  • Original 7.3 kB
  • After minification 6.3 kB
  • After compression 2.2 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 989 B, which is 14% 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 5.1 kB or 70% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 7.4 kB

  • Original 355.0 kB
  • After minification 347.6 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. 4 Sa images are well optimized though.

CSS Optimization

-19%

Potential reduce by 496 B

  • Original 2.6 kB
  • After minification 2.6 kB
  • After compression 2.1 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. 4sa.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 496 B or 19% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

16

After Optimization

16

  • Images
  • CSS

The browser has sent 16 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of 4 Sa. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Network Requests Diagram

4sa.co.za

4sa.co.za

896 ms

_styles.css

_styles.css

313 ms

adapt.css

adapt.css

615 ms

4sa.png

4sa.png

643 ms

CARS.png

CARS.png

921 ms

BIKES.png

BIKES.png

922 ms

SIGNS.png

SIGNS.png

932 ms

TRUCKS.png

TRUCKS.png

646 ms

KITCHENS.png

KITCHENS.png

1225 ms

DRIVING.png

DRIVING.png

1226 ms

SALVAGE.png

SALVAGE.png

926 ms

BEATTRADE.png

BEATTRADE.png

1235 ms

CALLTRAX.png

CALLTRAX.png

1235 ms

WEBJUNKIES.png

WEBJUNKIES.png

1235 ms

CARFACTS.jpg

CARFACTS.jpg

1246 ms

css

css

21 ms

heading-BG.png

heading-BG.png

1526 ms

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18 ms

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19 ms

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19 ms

Accessibility Review

4sa.co.za accessibility score

70

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.

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

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

4sa.co.za best practices score

83

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

SEO Factors

4sa.co.za SEO score

99

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

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise 4sa.co.za can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that 4sa.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

4sa.co.za

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of 4 Sa. 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: