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Report Summary

  • 13

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    25% of other websites

  • 92

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 80% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 89

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    67% of websites

b2bcentral.co.za

B2B Central | Hub for South Africa's largest business-to-business titles

Page Load Speed

9.6 sec in total

First Response

1.6 sec

Resources Loaded

7.2 sec

Page Rendered

823 ms

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About Website

Click here to check amazing B2B Central content for South Africa. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about b2bcentral.co.za

News platform for professionals across all business industries in southern Africa, including architecture, finance, manufacturing, laboratory, and more.

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Key Findings

We analyzed B2bcentral.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 1.6 sec and then it took 8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 85% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

b2bcentral.co.za performance score

13

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.7 s

2/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value16.3 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value15.6 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value820 ms

35/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value1

2/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value11.5 s

18/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.b2bcentral.co.za

1625 ms

style.min.css

22 ms

frontend.min.css

30 ms

flatpickr.min.css

34 ms

select2.min.css

33 ms

Our browser made a total of 42 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 64% of them (27 requests) were addressed to the original B2bcentral.co.za, 7% (3 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 5% (2 requests) were made to Connect.facebook.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (3.5 sec) belongs to the original domain B2bcentral.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 110.4 kB (5%)

Content Size

2.3 MB

After Optimization

2.2 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of B2bcentral.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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 2.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 58.1 kB

  • Original 73.8 kB
  • After minification 73.8 kB
  • After compression 15.7 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 58.1 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 36.7 kB

  • Original 2.0 MB
  • After minification 2.0 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. B2B Central images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 273 B

  • Original 120.3 kB
  • After minification 120.3 kB
  • After compression 120.1 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-20%

Potential reduce by 15.3 kB

  • Original 77.0 kB
  • After minification 61.8 kB
  • After compression 61.7 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. B2bcentral.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 15.3 kB or 20% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 22 (69%)

Requests Now

32

After Optimization

10

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 32 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of B2B Central. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 17 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

www.b2bcentral.co.za

www.b2bcentral.co.za

1625 ms

style.min.css

style.min.css

22 ms

frontend.min.css

frontend.min.css

30 ms

flatpickr.min.css

flatpickr.min.css

34 ms

select2.min.css

select2.min.css

33 ms

style.css

style.css

39 ms

fontawesome.all.min.css

fontawesome.all.min.css

35 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

48 ms

jquery-migrate.min.js

jquery-migrate.min.js

52 ms

flatpickr.min.js

flatpickr.min.js

49 ms

select2.min.js

select2.min.js

50 ms

js

js

136 ms

addthis_widget.js

addthis_widget.js

87 ms

sdk.js

sdk.js

36 ms

frontend.min.js

frontend.min.js

49 ms

uikit.min.js

uikit.min.js

48 ms

scripts.js

scripts.js

49 ms

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v84a3a4012de94ce1a686ba8c167c359c1696973893317

121 ms

css2

css2

24 ms

hotjar-1835953.js

hotjar-1835953.js

308 ms

B2Bcentral-logo-2020.png

B2Bcentral-logo-2020.png

1904 ms

b2b-central-logo-white.png

b2b-central-logo-white.png

1159 ms

johannesburg-skyline-and-railway-station-b2b.jpg

johannesburg-skyline-and-railway-station-b2b.jpg

1272 ms

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pxiEyp8kv8JHgFVrFJA.ttf

260 ms

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284 ms

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pxiByp8kv8JHgFVrLCz7V1s.ttf

294 ms

sdk.js

sdk.js

212 ms

75 ms

main.js

main.js

42 ms

fa-solid-900.woff

fa-solid-900.woff

2285 ms

fa-regular-400.woff

fa-regular-400.woff

1595 ms

fa-brands-400.woff

fa-brands-400.woff

1863 ms

modules.478d49d6cc21ec95d184.js

modules.478d49d6cc21ec95d184.js

44 ms

47 ms

ideas3.webp

ideas3.webp

1955 ms

LADInt2.jpg

LADInt2.jpg

2108 ms

feature-wild-dog-chantelle_melzer.webp

feature-wild-dog-chantelle_melzer.webp

2664 ms

EO_300x250.gif

EO_300x250.gif

3505 ms

COSMOGEN-LANCOME-x-LOUVRE.jpg

COSMOGEN-LANCOME-x-LOUVRE.jpg

2921 ms

RAF-Mumbai-terminal-opening-160.jpg

RAF-Mumbai-terminal-opening-160.jpg

3083 ms

16 ms

15 ms

Accessibility Review

b2bcentral.co.za accessibility score

92

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

b2bcentral.co.za best practices score

83

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

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

b2bcentral.co.za SEO score

89

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 B2bcentral.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 B2bcentral.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

b2bcentral.co.za

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of B2B Central. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: