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Report Summary

  • 58

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    75% of other websites

  • 86

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 63% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    57% of websites

  • 84

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    53% of websites

arcmedia.co.za

eCommerce Development, Management & Payments Solutions - Arc Media

Page Load Speed

3.1 sec in total

First Response

761 ms

Resources Loaded

1.9 sec

Page Rendered

425 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Arcmedia.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 761 ms and then it took 2.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 40% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

arcmedia.co.za performance score

58

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.6 s

63/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.5 s

36/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.4 s

56/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value630 ms

47/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value4.7 s

80/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

arcmedia.co.za

761 ms

font-icon.min.css

196 ms

css

71 ms

bootstrap.min.css

328 ms

style-1.6.min.css

316 ms

Our browser made a total of 30 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 80% of them (24 requests) were addressed to the original Arcmedia.co.za, 13% (4 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 3% (1 request) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (761 ms) belongs to the original domain Arcmedia.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 124.6 kB (24%)

Content Size

523.6 kB

After Optimization

399.0 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Arcmedia.co.za main page is 523.6 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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 293.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 88.6 kB

  • Original 104.0 kB
  • After minification 85.6 kB
  • After compression 15.5 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 18.5 kB, which is 18% 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 88.6 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-12%

Potential reduce by 35.4 kB

  • Original 293.8 kB
  • After minification 258.4 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, Arc Media needs image optimization as it can save up to 35.4 kB or 12% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 124 B

  • Original 37.8 kB
  • After minification 37.8 kB
  • After compression 37.6 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

-1%

Potential reduce by 504 B

  • Original 88.0 kB
  • After minification 88.0 kB
  • After compression 87.5 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. Arcmedia.co.za has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

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

Requests Now

23

After Optimization

15

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 23 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Arc Media. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 4 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

arcmedia.co.za

arcmedia.co.za

761 ms

font-icon.min.css

font-icon.min.css

196 ms

css

css

71 ms

bootstrap.min.css

bootstrap.min.css

328 ms

style-1.6.min.css

style-1.6.min.css

316 ms

plugins-1.6.css

plugins-1.6.css

304 ms

default.min.css

default.min.css

214 ms

jquery-3.3.1.min.js

jquery-3.3.1.min.js

344 ms

popper.min.js

popper.min.js

342 ms

bootstrap.min.js

bootstrap.min.js

548 ms

plugins-1.6.js

plugins-1.6.js

550 ms

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339 ms

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img_bg_product_small.jpg

117 ms

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img_bg_blog_small.jpg

136 ms

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220 ms

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217 ms

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115 ms

Accessibility Review

arcmedia.co.za accessibility score

86

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

Links do not have a discernible name

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.

Best Practices

arcmedia.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

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

arcmedia.co.za SEO score

84

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

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

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 Arcmedia.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 Arcmedia.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

arcmedia.co.za

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