Report Summary

  • 22

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    40% of other websites

  • 93

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 82% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    95% of websites

apexauctions.co.za

Upcoming Auctions | Used Machinery and Industrial Equipment

Page Load Speed

10.4 sec in total

First Response

264 ms

Resources Loaded

8.4 sec

Page Rendered

1.7 sec

apexauctions.co.za screenshot

About Website

Welcome to apexauctions.co.za homepage info - get ready to check Apex Auctions best content for South Africa right away, or after learning these important things about apexauctions.co.za

Ready to buy? We hold over 250 used machinery auctions a year, selling in excess of 50,000 items globally. You'll be sure to find what you're looking for in one of our auctions.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Apexauctions.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 264 ms and then it took 10.2 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

apexauctions.co.za performance score

22

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.6 s

64/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value20.5 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value10.9 s

6/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value30,620 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value40.1 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

apexauctions.co.za

264 ms

apexauctions.co.za

348 ms

home.htm

1587 ms

css

56 ms

css

67 ms

Our browser made a total of 455 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 9% of them (40 requests) were addressed to the original Apexauctions.co.za, 90% (408 requests) were made to Res.cloudinary.com and 1% (3 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.6 sec) relates to the external source Res.cloudinary.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 2.0 MB (51%)

Content Size

3.9 MB

After Optimization

1.9 MB

In fact, the total size of Apexauctions.co.za main page is 3.9 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 1.5 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 548.3 kB

  • Original 649.9 kB
  • After minification 599.3 kB
  • After compression 101.6 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 548.3 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 343 B

  • Original 1.5 MB
  • After minification 1.5 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. Apex Auctions images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 1.2 MB

  • Original 1.5 MB
  • After minification 1.4 MB
  • After compression 318.1 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 1.2 MB or 79% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 258.4 kB

  • Original 313.6 kB
  • After minification 305.3 kB
  • After compression 55.2 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. Apexauctions.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 258.4 kB or 82% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 35 (8%)

Requests Now

451

After Optimization

416

The browser has sent 451 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Apex Auctions. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 14 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 8 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

apexauctions.co.za accessibility score

93

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.

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

apexauctions.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

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

apexauctions.co.za SEO score

100

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

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 Apexauctions.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 Apexauctions.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 description is not detected on the main page of Apex Auctions. 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: