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Report Summary

  • 15

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    27% of other websites

  • 86

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 61% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 98

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    92% of websites

appleby.co.za

Analytical & Packaging Equipment Sales & Support | Appleby Instrumentation

Page Load Speed

28.4 sec in total

First Response

1.1 sec

Resources Loaded

27 sec

Page Rendered

280 ms

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About Website

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

Appleby Instrumentation has been in operation since 1995, providing sales and support to the Analytical and Packaging markets in South Africa and the African continent.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Appleby.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 1.1 sec and then it took 27.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is an excellent result, as only a small number of websites can load faster. Unfortunately, there were 10 request timeouts, which can generally increase the web page load time, as the browser stays idle while waiting for website response.

Performance Metrics

appleby.co.za performance score

15

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value7.3 s

1/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value42.9 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value26.1 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value24,550 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.004

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value47.2 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

appleby.co.za

1087 ms

style.min.css

433 ms

styles.css

646 ms

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685 ms

style.dev.css

923 ms

Our browser made a total of 114 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 38% of them (43 requests) were addressed to the original Appleby.co.za, 32% (36 requests) were made to Youtube.com and 13% (15 requests) were made to Jnn-pa.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (20.2 sec) relates to the external source Youtube.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 368.2 kB (16%)

Content Size

2.3 MB

After Optimization

2.0 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Appleby.co.za main page is 2.3 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. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 79.7 kB

  • Original 94.6 kB
  • After minification 86.9 kB
  • After compression 15.0 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. 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 79.7 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-16%

Potential reduce by 225.9 kB

  • Original 1.4 MB
  • After minification 1.2 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. Obviously, Appleby needs image optimization as it can save up to 225.9 kB or 16% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-10%

Potential reduce by 51.4 kB

  • Original 531.6 kB
  • After minification 531.4 kB
  • After compression 480.2 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 11.2 kB

  • Original 275.7 kB
  • After minification 275.7 kB
  • After compression 264.5 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. Appleby.co.za has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 33 (45%)

Requests Now

74

After Optimization

41

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 74 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Appleby. 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 11 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

appleby.co.za

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Accessibility Review

appleby.co.za accessibility score

86

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.

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

Links do not have a discernible name

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

appleby.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

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

appleby.co.za SEO score

98

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

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 Appleby.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 Appleby.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

appleby.co.za

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