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Report Summary

  • 24

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    44% of other websites

  • 97

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 93% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    57% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    84% of websites

blindspecialist.co.za

All types of blinds Durban & Surrounding/ Blind Specialist

Page Load Speed

4.1 sec in total

First Response

519 ms

Resources Loaded

3.4 sec

Page Rendered

123 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 519 ms and then it took 3.6 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

24

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.5 s

68/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.8 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.9 s

15/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value5,090 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value14.4 s

9/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.blindspecialist.co.za

519 ms

minified.js

196 ms

focus-within-polyfill.js

166 ms

polyfill.min.js

293 ms

bootstrap-features.88016560.bundle.min.js

433 ms

Our browser made a total of 64 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Blindspecialist.co.za, 48% (31 requests) were made to Static.parastorage.com and 44% (28 requests) were made to Static.wixstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.8 sec) relates to the external source Static.wixstatic.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.4 kB (1%)

Content Size

129.6 kB

After Optimization

128.2 kB

  • Images
  • JavaScript

In fact, the total size of Blindspecialist.co.za main page is 129.6 kB. 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. Javascripts take 90.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by -8 B

  • Original 0 B

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 web page is already compressed.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 1.2 kB

  • Original 39.0 kB
  • After minification 37.8 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

-0%

Potential reduce by 222 B

  • Original 90.7 kB
  • After minification 90.7 kB
  • After compression 90.4 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 10 (22%)

Requests Now

45

After Optimization

35

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 45 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 11 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

519 ms

minified.js

minified.js

196 ms

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focus-within-polyfill.js

166 ms

polyfill.min.js

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293 ms

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433 ms

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125 ms

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119 ms

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119 ms

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122 ms

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325 ms

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1330 ms

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1324 ms

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1313 ms

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1655 ms

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1655 ms

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1656 ms

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1659 ms

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1665 ms

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1676 ms

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1678 ms

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1687 ms

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1690 ms

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Accessibility Review

blindspecialist.co.za accessibility score

97

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

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

93

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • 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 neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. 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 description is not detected on the main page of Blind Specialist. 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: