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Report Summary

  • 85

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    89% of other websites

  • 88

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 69% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 50

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    18% of websites

bfor.co.za

BFor: Buy Cell Phones, Tablets, Laptops & Tech Online in South Africa

Page Load Speed

25.2 sec in total

First Response

7.7 sec

Resources Loaded

17.3 sec

Page Rendered

273 ms

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About Website

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

BFor is a tech-lover's paradise. Buy cell phones + free airtime, tablets, laptops & home entertainment products from your couch anywhere in South Africa.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Bfor.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 7.7 sec and then it took 17.5 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

bfor.co.za performance score

85

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.1 s

45/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.1 s

74/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.3 s

76/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value3.1 s

95/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

bfor.co.za

7686 ms

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Our browser made a total of 193 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 84% of them (163 requests) were addressed to the original Bfor.co.za, 5% (9 requests) were made to Static.olark.com and 3% (6 requests) were made to Assets.zendesk.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (7.7 sec) belongs to the original domain Bfor.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.0 MB (47%)

Content Size

2.2 MB

After Optimization

1.2 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Bfor.co.za main page is 2.2 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 879.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 173.5 kB

  • Original 201.2 kB
  • After minification 175.3 kB
  • After compression 27.7 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 25.9 kB, which is 13% 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 173.5 kB or 86% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 32.5 kB

  • Original 879.2 kB
  • After minification 846.7 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. BFor images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-61%

Potential reduce by 320.6 kB

  • Original 526.3 kB
  • After minification 504.4 kB
  • After compression 205.7 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 320.6 kB or 61% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 521.3 kB

  • Original 611.5 kB
  • After minification 494.8 kB
  • After compression 90.2 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. Bfor.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 521.3 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 79 (42%)

Requests Now

190

After Optimization

111

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 190 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of BFor. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 49 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 24 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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Accessibility Review

bfor.co.za accessibility score

88

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

Document doesn't have a <title> element

Best Practices

bfor.co.za best practices score

75

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

SEO Factors

bfor.co.za SEO score

50

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

Document doesn't have a <title> element

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

robots.txt is not valid

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    N/A

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Bfor.co.za can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Unfortunately we cannot identify language used on the page (probably there is a mix of languages, too little text or something else), while the claimed language is English. Our system also found out that Bfor.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

bfor.co.za

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