Report Summary

  • 41

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    60% of other websites

  • 76

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 43% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 79

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    40% of websites

alfawalls.co.za

ALFA Concrete Walls: Trusted for 40+ years.

Page Load Speed

13.6 sec in total

First Response

1.1 sec

Resources Loaded

12.2 sec

Page Rendered

288 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Alfawalls.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 1.1 sec and then it took 12.5 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

alfawalls.co.za performance score

41

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.4 s

2/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.8 s

7/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value17.5 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value280 ms

81/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.001

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value21.2 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

alfawalls.co.za

1122 ms

alfawalls.co.za

2317 ms

jquery-1.11.0.min.js

49 ms

css

60 ms

api.js

63 ms

Our browser made a total of 51 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 14% of them (7 requests) were addressed to the original Alfawalls.co.za, 27% (14 requests) were made to A.kwikweb.co.za and 16% (8 requests) were made to Shared13.kwikweb.co.za. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (6.5 sec) belongs to the original domain Alfawalls.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 4.2 MB (90%)

Content Size

4.6 MB

After Optimization

459.0 kB

In fact, the total size of Alfawalls.co.za main page is 4.6 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. 35% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 3.9 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 62.6 kB

  • Original 83.0 kB
  • After minification 80.0 kB
  • After compression 20.4 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 62.6 kB or 75% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-98%

Potential reduce by 3.8 MB

  • Original 3.9 MB
  • After minification 78.6 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. Obviously, ALFA Walls needs image optimization as it can save up to 3.8 MB or 98% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-47%

Potential reduce by 303.4 kB

  • Original 639.6 kB
  • After minification 639.6 kB
  • After compression 336.3 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 303.4 kB or 47% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 847 B

  • Original 24.6 kB
  • After minification 24.6 kB
  • After compression 23.7 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. Alfawalls.co.za has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 24 (51%)

Requests Now

47

After Optimization

23

The browser has sent 47 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of ALFA Walls. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 19 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

alfawalls.co.za accessibility score

76

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.

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Best Practices

alfawalls.co.za best practices score

75

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

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

alfawalls.co.za SEO score

79

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

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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

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