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Report Summary

  • 41

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    60% of other websites

  • 96

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 89% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 99

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    93% of websites

blindspecialist.co.za

All types of blinds Durban & Surrounding/ Blind Specialist

Page Load Speed

3.5 sec in total

First Response

395 ms

Resources Loaded

3 sec

Page Rendered

96 ms

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About Website

Welcome to blindspecialist.co.za homepage info - get ready to check Blind Specialist best content right away, or after learning these important things about blindspecialist.co.za

Blind Specialist brings you Top Quality Blinds at factory prices direct to the public. We are the leaders in all types of custom-made Window Blinds and also do the cleaning of Vertical/Venetian blinds...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Blindspecialist.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 395 ms and then it took 3.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 55% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

blindspecialist.co.za performance score

41

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.7 s

59/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.1 s

12/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.4 s

40/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value730 ms

40/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.001

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value13.0 s

13/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.blindspecialist.co.za

395 ms

originTrials.41d7301a.bundle.min.js

47 ms

minified.js

73 ms

focus-within-polyfill.js

68 ms

polyfill.min.js

525 ms

Our browser made a total of 76 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Blindspecialist.co.za, 43% (33 requests) were made to Static.wixstatic.com and 36% (27 requests) were made to Static.parastorage.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.5 sec) relates to the external source Static.wixstatic.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 921.8 kB (61%)

Content Size

1.5 MB

After Optimization

587.2 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript

In fact, the total size of Blindspecialist.co.za main page is 1.5 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. 50% of websites need less resources to load. HTML takes 1.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 908.0 kB

  • Original 1.1 MB
  • After minification 1.1 MB
  • After compression 205.5 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 908.0 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 11.0 kB

  • Original 166.7 kB
  • After minification 155.6 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. Blind Specialist images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 2.8 kB

  • Original 228.9 kB
  • After minification 228.8 kB
  • After compression 226.1 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.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 11 (22%)

Requests Now

49

After Optimization

38

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 49 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Blind Specialist. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 12 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

www.blindspecialist.co.za

www.blindspecialist.co.za

395 ms

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Accessibility Review

blindspecialist.co.za accessibility score

96

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.

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

blindspecialist.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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

blindspecialist.co.za SEO score

99

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Blindspecialist.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 Blindspecialist.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

blindspecialist.co.za

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