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Report Summary

  • 45

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    64% of other websites

  • 81

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 51% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 84

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    52% of websites

accidents.co.za

Accidents, Roadsafety Information and News

Page Load Speed

16.2 sec in total

First Response

4.3 sec

Resources Loaded

11.3 sec

Page Rendered

626 ms

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About Website

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Accidents, Roadsafety Information and News discussions and rules of the road.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Accidents.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 4.3 sec and then it took 11.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 90% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

accidents.co.za performance score

45

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.6 s

2/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value13.8 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value13.4 s

2/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value120 ms

97/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.05

99/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value13.9 s

10/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.accidents.co.za

4300 ms

analytics.js

29 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

532 ms

style.css

820 ms

layerslider.css

557 ms

Our browser made a total of 102 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 79% of them (81 requests) were addressed to the original Accidents.co.za, 3% (3 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 3% (3 requests) were made to S.ytimg.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (4.3 sec) belongs to the original domain Accidents.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 2.3 MB (43%)

Content Size

5.3 MB

After Optimization

3.0 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Accidents.co.za 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. 75% 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 2.5 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 126.4 kB

  • Original 145.5 kB
  • After minification 123.1 kB
  • After compression 19.0 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 22.3 kB, which is 15% 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 126.4 kB or 87% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 62.6 kB

  • Original 2.5 MB
  • After minification 2.5 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. Accidents images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-68%

Potential reduce by 675.3 kB

  • Original 995.9 kB
  • After minification 950.4 kB
  • After compression 320.6 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 675.3 kB or 68% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 1.4 MB

  • Original 1.6 MB
  • After minification 1.5 MB
  • After compression 198.8 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. Accidents.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 1.4 MB or 87% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 35 (41%)

Requests Now

86

After Optimization

51

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 86 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Accidents. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 24 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 13 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

www.accidents.co.za

www.accidents.co.za

4300 ms

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29 ms

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532 ms

style.css

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820 ms

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557 ms

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37 ms

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559 ms

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557 ms

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16 ms

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1685 ms

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1996 ms

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1939 ms

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506 ms

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504 ms

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1321 ms

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82 ms

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Accessibility Review

accidents.co.za accessibility score

81

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.

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

accidents.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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

accidents.co.za SEO score

84

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

Links do not have descriptive text

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 Accidents.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 Accidents.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

accidents.co.za

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