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Report Summary

  • 16

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    30% of other websites

  • 86

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 61% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 97

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    91% of websites

botanica.co.za

Botanica - Pots, Planters and Water Features - South Africa

Page Load Speed

8.8 sec in total

First Response

2.2 sec

Resources Loaded

6 sec

Page Rendered

494 ms

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About Website

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

Botanica specialises in the creation and finishing of a wide range of planters, urns troughs, vats, containers and water features with a variety of finishes.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Botanica.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 2.2 sec and then it took 6.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 80% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

botanica.co.za performance score

16

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value10.7 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value15.5 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value22.2 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,230 ms

6/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.101

89/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value17.9 s

4/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.botanica.co.za

2240 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

166 ms

flick.css

256 ms

www.botanica.co.za

341 ms

layerslider.css

268 ms

Our browser made a total of 134 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 87% of them (117 requests) were addressed to the original Botanica.co.za, 4% (5 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 2% (3 requests) were made to Reports.calltracking.co.za. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.2 sec) belongs to the original domain Botanica.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.9 MB (61%)

Content Size

3.1 MB

After Optimization

1.2 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Botanica.co.za main page is 3.1 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 1.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 155.6 kB

  • Original 186.6 kB
  • After minification 174.8 kB
  • After compression 30.9 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 155.6 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 13.3 kB

  • Original 743.8 kB
  • After minification 730.5 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. Botanica images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-71%

Potential reduce by 789.5 kB

  • Original 1.1 MB
  • After minification 951.2 kB
  • After compression 317.2 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 789.5 kB or 71% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-88%

Potential reduce by 957.2 kB

  • Original 1.1 MB
  • After minification 909.3 kB
  • After compression 132.0 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. Botanica.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 957.2 kB or 88% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 91 (74%)

Requests Now

123

After Optimization

32

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 123 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Botanica. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 67 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 26 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

www.botanica.co.za

www.botanica.co.za

2240 ms

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wp-emoji-release.min.js

166 ms

flick.css

flick.css

256 ms

www.botanica.co.za

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341 ms

layerslider.css

layerslider.css

268 ms

css

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26 ms

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179 ms

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960 ms

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571 ms

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558 ms

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586 ms

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524 ms

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524 ms

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460 ms

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480 ms

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480 ms

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owl.carousel.js

570 ms

gtm.js

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80 ms

imagesloaded.pkgd.min.js

imagesloaded.pkgd.min.js

525 ms

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521 ms

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42 ms

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525 ms

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486 ms

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516 ms

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777 ms

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778 ms

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611 ms

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571 ms

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Accessibility Review

botanica.co.za accessibility score

86

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

[aria-*] attributes do not match their roles

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

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Some elements have a [tabindex] value greater than 0

Best Practices

botanica.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

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

botanica.co.za SEO score

97

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

    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 Botanica.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 Botanica.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

botanica.co.za

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