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Report Summary

  • 15

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    27% of other websites

  • 80

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 49% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 76

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    35% of websites

alexanderforbes.co.za

Alexforbes South Africa global home

Page Load Speed

5.1 sec in total

First Response

553 ms

Resources Loaded

4.5 sec

Page Rendered

57 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Alexanderforbes.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 553 ms and then it took 4.5 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

alexanderforbes.co.za performance score

15

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value22.0 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value34.5 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value29.7 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,990 ms

1/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.049

99/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value32.3 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

alexanderforbes.co.za

553 ms

www.alexforbes.com

1123 ms

home-global.html

222 ms

clientlib-base.min.css

220 ms

container.min.js

435 ms

Our browser made a total of 23 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 4% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Alexanderforbes.co.za, 48% (11 requests) were made to Alexforbes.com and 9% (2 requests) were made to Assets.adobedtm.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.4 sec) relates to the external source Alexforbes.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 127.7 kB (68%)

Content Size

188.7 kB

After Optimization

61.0 kB

  • HTML
  • JavaScript

In fact, the total size of Alexanderforbes.co.za main page is 188.7 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. 40% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 183.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-70%

Potential reduce by 4.1 kB

  • Original 5.8 kB
  • After minification 4.8 kB
  • After compression 1.7 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 997 B, which is 17% 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 4.1 kB or 70% of the original size.

JavaScript Optimization

-68%

Potential reduce by 123.6 kB

  • Original 183.0 kB
  • After minification 183.0 kB
  • After compression 59.3 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 123.6 kB or 68% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 12 (60%)

Requests Now

20

After Optimization

8

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 20 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Alexanderforbes. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 10 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

alexanderforbes.co.za

alexanderforbes.co.za

553 ms

www.alexforbes.com

www.alexforbes.com

1123 ms

home-global.html

home-global.html

222 ms

clientlib-base.min.css

clientlib-base.min.css

220 ms

container.min.js

container.min.js

435 ms

clientlib-base.min.js

clientlib-base.min.js

858 ms

launch-e59cbf1c1d0a.min.js

launch-e59cbf1c1d0a.min.js

29 ms

clientlib-bootstrap.min.css

clientlib-bootstrap.min.css

886 ms

clientlib-angular.min.css

clientlib-angular.min.css

647 ms

clientlib-site.min.css

clientlib-site.min.css

651 ms

clientlib-bootstrap.min.js

clientlib-bootstrap.min.js

1087 ms

clientlib-angular.min.js

clientlib-angular.min.js

2403 ms

clientlib-site.min.js

clientlib-site.min.js

885 ms

EXca51fc7a06c14c8c9a8f5fa846901f69-libraryCode_source.min.js

EXca51fc7a06c14c8c9a8f5fa846901f69-libraryCode_source.min.js

19 ms

fbevents.js

fbevents.js

37 ms

uwt.js

uwt.js

64 ms

rd

rd

37 ms

dest5.html

dest5.html

57 ms

id

id

32 ms

ibs:dpid=411&dpuuid=ZqkBvgAAAKrgTRva

ibs:dpid=411&dpuuid=ZqkBvgAAAKrgTRva

12 ms

adsct

adsct

112 ms

adsct

adsct

180 ms

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s79949799831956

22 ms

Accessibility Review

alexanderforbes.co.za accessibility score

80

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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

[id] attributes on active, focusable elements are not unique

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Best Practices

alexanderforbes.co.za best practices score

83

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

High

Includes front-end JavaScript libraries with known security vulnerabilities

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

alexanderforbes.co.za SEO score

76

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

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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 Alexanderforbes.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 Alexanderforbes.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

alexanderforbes.co.za

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of Alexanderforbes. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: