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Report Summary

  • 34

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    55% of other websites

  • 83

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 56% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    82% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    61% of websites

alphauniversal.co.za

Home - Alpha Universal, home of Quality Fasteners & Accessories

Page Load Speed

14.2 sec in total

First Response

771 ms

Resources Loaded

13.3 sec

Page Rendered

126 ms

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About Website

Welcome to alphauniversal.co.za homepage info - get ready to check Alpha Universal best content right away, or after learning these important things about alphauniversal.co.za

Alpha Universal, manufactures and distributes a comprehensive range of superior specialised fastening products & accessories. Contact us 072 965 6792 | 011 452 9131 | info@alphauniversal.co.za

Visit alphauniversal.co.za

Key Findings

We analyzed Alphauniversal.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 771 ms and then it took 13.4 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

alphauniversal.co.za performance score

34

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value11.3 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value11.3 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value18.8 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value400 ms

67/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.096

91/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value15.2 s

7/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

alphauniversal.co.za

771 ms

www.alphauniversal.co.za

2043 ms

jquery.js

2369 ms

layout.core.js

891 ms

CloudZoom.js

905 ms

Our browser made a total of 46 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 87% of them (40 requests) were addressed to the original Alphauniversal.co.za, 4% (2 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com and 4% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (4.4 sec) belongs to the original domain Alphauniversal.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.6 MB (57%)

Content Size

2.8 MB

After Optimization

1.2 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Alphauniversal.co.za main page is 2.8 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. CSS take 1.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 47.9 kB

  • Original 59.2 kB
  • After minification 53.2 kB
  • After compression 11.3 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 47.9 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 47.6 kB

  • Original 966.6 kB
  • After minification 919.0 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. Alpha Universal images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 546.7 kB

  • Original 712.6 kB
  • After minification 520.2 kB
  • After compression 165.9 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 546.7 kB or 77% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-90%

Potential reduce by 971.5 kB

  • Original 1.1 MB
  • After minification 936.3 kB
  • After compression 107.7 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. Alphauniversal.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 971.5 kB or 90% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 26 (60%)

Requests Now

43

After Optimization

17

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 43 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Alpha Universal. 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 9 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

alphauniversal.co.za

alphauniversal.co.za

771 ms

www.alphauniversal.co.za

www.alphauniversal.co.za

2043 ms

jquery.js

jquery.js

2369 ms

layout.core.js

layout.core.js

891 ms

CloudZoom.js

CloudZoom.js

905 ms

js

js

46 ms

style.min.css

style.min.css

1210 ms

wc-blocks-vendors-style.css

wc-blocks-vendors-style.css

891 ms

wc-blocks-style.css

wc-blocks-style.css

2127 ms

woocommerce-layout.css

woocommerce-layout.css

1187 ms

woocommerce.css

woocommerce.css

1209 ms

bootstrap.css

bootstrap.css

1788 ms

style.css

style.css

4444 ms

frontend-gtag.min.js

frontend-gtag.min.js

1514 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

1815 ms

jquery-migrate.min.js

jquery-migrate.min.js

1819 ms

bootstrap.min.js

bootstrap.min.js

2133 ms

script.js

script.js

2143 ms

select2.css

select2.css

1845 ms

jquery.blockUI.min.js

jquery.blockUI.min.js

2073 ms

add-to-cart.min.js

add-to-cart.min.js

2080 ms

js.cookie.min.js

js.cookie.min.js

2092 ms

woocommerce.min.js

woocommerce.min.js

2135 ms

cart-fragments.min.js

cart-fragments.min.js

2140 ms

comment-reply.min.js

comment-reply.min.js

2374 ms

selectWoo.full.min.js

selectWoo.full.min.js

2386 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

wp-emoji-release.min.js

586 ms

js

js

45 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

13 ms

collect

collect

10 ms

collect

collect

45 ms

ga-audiences

ga-audiences

25 ms

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610 ms

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1195 ms

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1205 ms

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313 ms

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892 ms

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894 ms

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1212 ms

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1203 ms

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1480 ms

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1476 ms

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1485 ms

BillionWebFonts.woff

BillionWebFonts.woff

1785 ms

www.alphauniversal.co.za

www.alphauniversal.co.za

2061 ms

woocommerce-smallscreen.css

woocommerce-smallscreen.css

304 ms

Accessibility Review

alphauniversal.co.za accessibility score

83

Accessibility Issues

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 input fields do not have accessible names

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

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

alphauniversal.co.za 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

SEO Factors

alphauniversal.co.za SEO score

86

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

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 Alphauniversal.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 Alphauniversal.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

alphauniversal.co.za

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