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Report Summary

  • 36

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    55% of other websites

  • 64

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 29% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 62

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    23% of websites

bottlesdirect.co.za

Bottles Direct is a manufacturer of stylish, unique and high quality bottles at competitive prices - Home

Page Load Speed

6.9 sec in total

First Response

1.4 sec

Resources Loaded

5.3 sec

Page Rendered

170 ms

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About Website

Click here to check amazing Bottles Direct content. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about bottlesdirect.co.za

Bottles Direct is a manufacturer of stylish, unique and high quality bottles at competitive prices. All of our products are designed and manufactured in Gauteng South Africa. Our bottles are BPA free,...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Bottlesdirect.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 1.4 sec and then it took 5.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 75% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

bottlesdirect.co.za performance score

36

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.8 s

11/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.0 s

26/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.8 s

23/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,190 ms

21/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.002

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value7.7 s

45/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

bottlesdirect.co.za

1429 ms

mootools-core.js

1279 ms

core.js

542 ms

caption.js

536 ms

template_css.css

774 ms

Our browser made a total of 41 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 95% of them (39 requests) were addressed to the original Bottlesdirect.co.za, 5% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.6 sec) belongs to the original domain Bottlesdirect.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 108.6 kB (11%)

Content Size

977.1 kB

After Optimization

868.5 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Bottlesdirect.co.za main page is 977.1 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. 40% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 815.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 13.4 kB

  • Original 17.1 kB
  • After minification 14.0 kB
  • After compression 3.6 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 3.0 kB, which is 18% 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 13.4 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 7.1 kB

  • Original 815.1 kB
  • After minification 808.1 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. Bottles Direct images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-58%

Potential reduce by 74.6 kB

  • Original 129.6 kB
  • After minification 127.0 kB
  • After compression 55.0 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 74.6 kB or 58% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-88%

Potential reduce by 13.5 kB

  • Original 15.3 kB
  • After minification 11.9 kB
  • After compression 1.8 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. Bottlesdirect.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 13.5 kB or 88% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 11 (28%)

Requests Now

40

After Optimization

29

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 40 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Bottles Direct. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 6 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

bottlesdirect.co.za

bottlesdirect.co.za

1429 ms

mootools-core.js

mootools-core.js

1279 ms

core.js

core.js

542 ms

caption.js

caption.js

536 ms

template_css.css

template_css.css

774 ms

motiongallery.js

motiongallery.js

651 ms

show-hide.js

show-hide.js

642 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

398 ms

background.jpg

background.jpg

370 ms

header-background.jpg

header-background.jpg

572 ms

spacer.gif

spacer.gif

347 ms

main_menu_split.png

main_menu_split.png

344 ms

main_menu_over.png

main_menu_over.png

345 ms

home-background.jpg

home-background.jpg

831 ms

news-top.png

news-top.png

604 ms

news-bottom.png

news-bottom.png

579 ms

water-purifier.png

water-purifier.png

1088 ms

alu-650ml.png

alu-650ml.png

828 ms

aqua-650ml.png

aqua-650ml.png

1115 ms

curve-350ml.png

curve-350ml.png

1090 ms

curve-500ml.png

curve-500ml.png

1139 ms

curve-750ml.png

curve-750ml.png

1337 ms

dumpy-550ml.png

dumpy-550ml.png

1338 ms

namib-550ml.png

namib-550ml.png

1575 ms

namib-750ml.png

namib-750ml.png

1619 ms

oasis-1000ml.png

oasis-1000ml.png

1622 ms

regular-500ml.png

regular-500ml.png

1637 ms

regular-750ml.png

regular-750ml.png

1840 ms

regular-1000ml.png

regular-1000ml.png

1840 ms

ringer-500ml.png

ringer-500ml.png

2086 ms

splash-500ml.png

splash-500ml.png

2140 ms

splash-750ml.png

splash-750ml.png

1894 ms

torrent-600ml.png

torrent-600ml.png

2136 ms

custom-design.png

custom-design.png

2347 ms

cover-left.png

cover-left.png

2086 ms

cover-right.png

cover-right.png

2142 ms

red-banner-background.png

red-banner-background.png

2316 ms

footer-background.png

footer-background.png

2578 ms

CartoGothicStd-Book-webfont.woff

CartoGothicStd-Book-webfont.woff

2117 ms

CartoGothicStd-Bold-webfont.woff

CartoGothicStd-Bold-webfont.woff

2122 ms

collect

collect

79 ms

Accessibility Review

bottlesdirect.co.za accessibility score

64

Accessibility Issues

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

bottlesdirect.co.za best practices score

75

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

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

bottlesdirect.co.za SEO score

62

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

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 Bottlesdirect.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 Bottlesdirect.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

bottlesdirect.co.za

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