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Report Summary

  • 43

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    62% of other websites

  • 59

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 26% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 73

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    31% of websites

bidvest.com

Home | Bidvest Group

Page Load Speed

35.2 sec in total

First Response

5.1 sec

Resources Loaded

28.8 sec

Page Rendered

1.4 sec

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About Website

Visit bidvest.com now to see the best up-to-date Bidvest content for South Africa and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about bidvest.com

We're an international services, trading and distribution company, listed on the JSE, South Africa and operating on four continents. We employ 137 000 people worldwide, but our roots remain South Afri...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Bidvest.com page load time and found that the first response time was 5.1 sec and then it took 30.2 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. Unfortunately, there were 3 request timeouts, which can generally increase the web page load time, as the browser stays idle while waiting for website response.

Performance Metrics

bidvest.com performance score

43

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.5 s

2/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.6 s

8/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value16.1 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value290 ms

80/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.077

95/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value9.7 s

28/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

bidvest.com

5051 ms

stylesheet.css

1505 ms

main.css

2402 ms

modernizr.custom.js

1566 ms

jquery.min.js

21 ms

Our browser made a total of 48 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 79% of them (38 requests) were addressed to the original Bidvest.com, 13% (6 requests) were made to Irhosted.profiledata.co.za and 4% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (20.2 sec) belongs to the original domain Bidvest.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 382.3 kB (33%)

Content Size

1.2 MB

After Optimization

767.9 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Bidvest.com main page is 1.2 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. 20% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 933.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-92%

Potential reduce by 80.6 kB

  • Original 88.1 kB
  • After minification 31.8 kB
  • After compression 7.4 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 56.3 kB, which is 64% 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 80.6 kB or 92% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-24%

Potential reduce by 220.6 kB

  • Original 933.4 kB
  • After minification 712.7 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. Obviously, Bidvest needs image optimization as it can save up to 220.6 kB or 24% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-50%

Potential reduce by 38.1 kB

  • Original 76.9 kB
  • After minification 68.8 kB
  • After compression 38.8 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 38.1 kB or 50% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 43.0 kB

  • Original 51.9 kB
  • After minification 38.3 kB
  • After compression 9.0 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. Bidvest.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 43.0 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 12 (32%)

Requests Now

38

After Optimization

26

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 38 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Bidvest. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 9 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

bidvest.com

bidvest.com

5051 ms

stylesheet.css

stylesheet.css

1505 ms

main.css

main.css

2402 ms

modernizr.custom.js

modernizr.custom.js

1566 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

21 ms

jquery.mmenu.min.js

jquery.mmenu.min.js

1625 ms

slidorion.css

slidorion.css

1585 ms

homepage.css

homepage.css

2165 ms

owl.carousel.css

owl.carousel.css

2213 ms

cbpHorizontalMenu.min.js

cbpHorizontalMenu.min.js

893 ms

jquery.easing.js

jquery.easing.js

988 ms

jquery.slidorion.min.js

jquery.slidorion.min.js

1007 ms

jquery.accordion.js

jquery.accordion.js

1532 ms

owl.carousel.min.js

owl.carousel.min.js

1687 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

420 ms

intradayticker.htm

intradayticker.htm

634 ms

number_People.png

number_People.png

10734 ms

bidvest_logo_invert.png

bidvest_logo_invert.png

4756 ms

bidvest_logo_small_inverted.png

bidvest_logo_small_inverted.png

2088 ms

People_slide.jpg

People_slide.jpg

11191 ms

people_slider.png

people_slider.png

10344 ms

Products_slide.jpg

Products_slide.jpg

11138 ms

products_services.png

products_services.png

13256 ms

Performance_slide.jpg

Performance_slide.jpg

19267 ms

performance.png

performance.png

20198 ms

Planet_slide.jpg

Planet_slide.jpg

20198 ms

planet.png

planet.png

17978 ms

annual_integrated_report_2015.jpg

annual_integrated_report_2015.jpg

14601 ms

icon_whyInvest.png

icon_whyInvest.png

14214 ms

investor-alerts-icon-grey.png

investor-alerts-icon-grey.png

15133 ms

audio_icon.png

audio_icon.png

15566 ms

directory2015.jpg

directory2015.jpg

16334 ms

bidvoice-cover-issue-4-2015.jpg

bidvoice-cover-issue-4-2015.jpg

18560 ms

myBookpic.jpg

myBookpic.jpg

19178 ms

fb.png

fb.png

18922 ms

tweet.png

tweet.png

19388 ms

ln.png

ln.png

19764 ms

g_plus.png

g_plus.png

20002 ms

youtube_white.png

youtube_white.png

20069 ms

gothambook-webfont.woff

gothambook-webfont.woff

19893 ms

collect

collect

667 ms

intradayticker.htm

intradayticker.htm

1741 ms

collect

collect

263 ms

up_sml.png

up_sml.png

337 ms

blank_sml.png

blank_sml.png

693 ms

gothambook-webfont.woff

gothambook-webfont.woff

1083 ms

gothambook-webfont.ttf

gothambook-webfont.ttf

3601 ms

gothambook-webfont.ttf

gothambook-webfont.ttf

2203 ms

Accessibility Review

bidvest.com accessibility score

59

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

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

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

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Lists do not contain only <li> elements and script supporting elements (<script> and <template>).

Best Practices

bidvest.com best practices score

67

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

SEO Factors

bidvest.com SEO score

73

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

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 Bidvest.com 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 Bidvest.com 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

bidvest.com

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