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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

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 95

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    90% of websites

thepromogroup.co.za

Corporate Gifts & Promotional Products South Africa | The Promo Group

Page Load Speed

23 sec in total

First Response

719 ms

Resources Loaded

21.3 sec

Page Rendered

1.1 sec

About Website

Welcome to thepromogroup.co.za homepage info - get ready to check The Promo Group best content for South Africa right away, or after learning these important things about thepromogroup.co.za

South Africa's leading supplier of promotional products, corporate gifts, and branded merchandise. Free delivery over R1,200. Free artwork redraws. 70+ years experience.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Thepromogroup.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 719 ms and then it took 22.3 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.

Performance Metrics

thepromogroup.co.za performance score

59

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.4 s

37/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.5 s

9/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.5 s

39/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value190 ms

90/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value5.5 s

70/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

thepromogroup.co.za

719 ms

thepromogroup.co.za

13424 ms

font-awesome.min.css

687 ms

fullmain.min.css

938 ms

woocommerce-layout.css

724 ms

Our browser made a total of 112 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 90% of them (101 requests) were addressed to the original Thepromogroup.co.za, 9% (10 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 1% (1 request) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (13.4 sec) belongs to the original domain Thepromogroup.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 2.4 MB (59%)

Content Size

4.1 MB

After Optimization

1.7 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Thepromogroup.co.za main page is 4.1 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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-90%

Potential reduce by 820.1 kB

  • Original 913.7 kB
  • After minification 901.4 kB
  • After compression 93.6 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 820.1 kB or 90% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-10%

Potential reduce by 119.8 kB

  • Original 1.2 MB
  • After minification 1.1 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. The Promo Group images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-69%

Potential reduce by 780.1 kB

  • Original 1.1 MB
  • After minification 1.1 MB
  • After compression 356.0 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 780.1 kB or 69% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 710.6 kB

  • Original 854.9 kB
  • After minification 819.7 kB
  • After compression 144.3 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. Thepromogroup.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 710.6 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 61 (64%)

Requests Now

95

After Optimization

34

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 95 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of The Promo Group. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 42 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 21 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

thepromogroup.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.

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

thepromogroup.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

thepromogroup.co.za SEO score

95

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 Thepromogroup.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 Thepromogroup.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 data is detected on the main page of The Promo Group. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: