Report Summary

  • 15

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    27% of other websites

  • 79

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 48% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 84

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    53% of websites

bigcountry.co.za

Big Country 4x4 - Canopies | Roof Racks | Accessories | Tents

Page Load Speed

10 sec in total

First Response

2.2 sec

Resources Loaded

7.4 sec

Page Rendered

340 ms

bigcountry.co.za screenshot

About Website

Welcome to bigcountry.co.za homepage info - get ready to check Big Country best content for South Africa right away, or after learning these important things about bigcountry.co.za

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Key Findings

We analyzed Bigcountry.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 2.2 sec and then it took 7.8 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

bigcountry.co.za performance score

15

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value7.8 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value19.5 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value18.4 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,520 ms

4/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.101

89/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value25.0 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

bigcountry.co.za

2242 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

734 ms

styles.css

497 ms

font-awesome.min.css

747 ms

bootstrap.css

1505 ms

Our browser made a total of 88 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 82% of them (72 requests) were addressed to the original Bigcountry.co.za, 5% (4 requests) were made to Maps.googleapis.com and 3% (3 requests) were made to Maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (3.3 sec) belongs to the original domain Bigcountry.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.5 MB (55%)

Content Size

2.7 MB

After Optimization

1.2 MB

In fact, the total size of Bigcountry.co.za main page is 2.7 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. 45% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 895.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 84.7 kB

  • Original 101.7 kB
  • After minification 94.3 kB
  • After compression 17.0 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 84.7 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 73.3 kB

  • Original 895.7 kB
  • After minification 822.4 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. Big Country images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-70%

Potential reduce by 623.8 kB

  • Original 891.1 kB
  • After minification 848.6 kB
  • After compression 267.3 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 623.8 kB or 70% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 686.6 kB

  • Original 786.2 kB
  • After minification 651.8 kB
  • After compression 99.7 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. Bigcountry.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 686.6 kB or 87% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 50 (60%)

Requests Now

84

After Optimization

34

The browser has sent 84 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Big Country. 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 18 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

bigcountry.co.za accessibility score

79

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Elements with an ARIA [role] that require children to contain a specific [role] are missing some or all of those required children.

High

[aria-*] attributes do not have valid values

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.

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

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>).

High

List items (<li>) are not contained within <ul> or <ol> parent elements.

Best Practices

bigcountry.co.za 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

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

bigcountry.co.za SEO score

84

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

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 Bigcountry.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 Bigcountry.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 description is not detected on the main page of Big Country. 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: