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Report Summary

  • 11

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    24% of other websites

  • 84

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 58% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    19% of websites

  • 82

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    44% of websites

bds.org.za

Bird Deterrent Specialists | Your defence against Pest Bird Infestation

Page Load Speed

8.6 sec in total

First Response

976 ms

Resources Loaded

7.1 sec

Page Rendered

508 ms

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About Website

Visit bds.org.za now to see the best up-to-date Bds content and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about bds.org.za

Bird Deterrent Specialists (previously known as Bird Control Services – Western Cape ) is your defence against Pest Bird Infestation.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Bds.org.za page load time and found that the first response time was 976 ms and then it took 7.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 80% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

bds.org.za performance score

11

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value9.1 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value10.4 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value13.7 s

2/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,320 ms

17/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.329

35/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value14.1 s

9/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

bds.org.za

976 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

316 ms

custom.css

399 ms

magnific-popup.css

413 ms

jquery.bxslider.css

402 ms

Our browser made a total of 95 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 83% of them (79 requests) were addressed to the original Bds.org.za, 9% (9 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 3% (3 requests) were made to Static.addtoany.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.3 sec) belongs to the original domain Bds.org.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 162.4 kB (4%)

Content Size

3.9 MB

After Optimization

3.7 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Bds.org.za main page is 3.9 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. 75% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Images take 3.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 80.3 kB

  • Original 98.0 kB
  • After minification 96.9 kB
  • After compression 17.6 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 80.3 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 62.7 kB

  • Original 3.3 MB
  • After minification 3.3 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. Bds images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 13.0 kB

  • Original 239.3 kB
  • After minification 239.3 kB
  • After compression 226.3 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

-3%

Potential reduce by 6.3 kB

  • Original 198.3 kB
  • After minification 198.3 kB
  • After compression 192.0 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. Bds.org.za has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 62 (75%)

Requests Now

83

After Optimization

21

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 83 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Bds. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 34 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 30 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

bds.org.za

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976 ms

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1621 ms

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1657 ms

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1710 ms

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140 ms

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2007 ms

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Accessibility Review

bds.org.za accessibility score

84

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

bds.org.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

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

bds.org.za SEO score

82

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

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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 Bds.org.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 Bds.org.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

bds.org.za

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