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Report Summary

  • 59

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    74% of other websites

  • 87

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 66% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    20% of websites

  • 77

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    36% of websites

avidarchitecture.co.za

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Page Load Speed

6.5 sec in total

First Response

969 ms

Resources Loaded

5.4 sec

Page Rendered

62 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Avidarchitecture.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 969 ms and then it took 5.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 75% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

avidarchitecture.co.za performance score

59

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.8 s

12/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.1 s

12/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.1 s

14/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.037

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value4.8 s

79/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

avidarchitecture.co.za

969 ms

Default.asp

1189 ms

default.asp

318 ms

www.avidarchitecture.co.za

346 ms

flexslider.css

334 ms

Our browser made a total of 20 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 85% of them (17 requests) were addressed to the original Avidarchitecture.co.za, 10% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 5% (1 request) were made to Ajax.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.9 sec) belongs to the original domain Avidarchitecture.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 19.7 kB (2%)

Content Size

830.8 kB

After Optimization

811.0 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Avidarchitecture.co.za main page is 830.8 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. 25% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 746.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 9.1 kB

  • Original 12.1 kB
  • After minification 11.4 kB
  • After compression 3.0 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 9.1 kB or 75% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 219 B

  • Original 746.3 kB
  • After minification 746.1 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. Avid Architecture images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-14%

Potential reduce by 9.4 kB

  • Original 69.4 kB
  • After minification 69.4 kB
  • After compression 60.0 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 9.4 kB or 14% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-34%

Potential reduce by 973 B

  • Original 2.9 kB
  • After minification 2.9 kB
  • After compression 1.9 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. Avidarchitecture.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 973 B or 34% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 3 (19%)

Requests Now

16

After Optimization

13

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 16 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Avid Architecture. 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 as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

avidarchitecture.co.za

avidarchitecture.co.za

969 ms

Default.asp

Default.asp

1189 ms

default.asp

default.asp

318 ms

www.avidarchitecture.co.za

www.avidarchitecture.co.za

346 ms

flexslider.css

flexslider.css

334 ms

styles.css

styles.css

630 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

12 ms

jquery.flexslider.js

jquery.flexslider.js

1001 ms

scripts.js

scripts.js

671 ms

background.gif

background.gif

339 ms

avid-architects-logo.gif

avid-architects-logo.gif

331 ms

menu-background.png

menu-background.png

344 ms

6-abrey-road.jpg

6-abrey-road.jpg

1915 ms

sandy-center.jpg

sandy-center.jpg

1611 ms

village-center.jpg

village-center.jpg

1629 ms

the-quarrey.jpg

the-quarrey.jpg

1615 ms

homepage-image-3.jpg

homepage-image-3.jpg

1302 ms

homepage-image-1.jpg

homepage-image-1.jpg

1329 ms

ga.js

ga.js

8 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

13 ms

Accessibility Review

avidarchitecture.co.za accessibility score

87

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.

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

Best Practices

avidarchitecture.co.za best practices score

58

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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

avidarchitecture.co.za SEO score

77

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    N/A

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Avidarchitecture.co.za can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Avidarchitecture.co.za main page’s claimed encoding is . Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

avidarchitecture.co.za

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Avid Architecture. 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: