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Report Summary

  • 84

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    88% of other websites

  • 95

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 86% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 95

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    90% of websites

branchout.co.za

Nursery in Pretoria - Branch-Out Tree Farms

Page Load Speed

5.6 sec in total

First Response

913 ms

Resources Loaded

4.4 sec

Page Rendered

269 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Branchout.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 913 ms and then it took 4.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 70% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

branchout.co.za performance score

84

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.4 s

71/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.4 s

66/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.3 s

58/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value80 ms

99/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.002

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value2.6 s

98/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

branchout.co.za

913 ms

jquery.js

930 ms

bootstrap.min.js

602 ms

layout.core.js

776 ms

CloudZoom.js

663 ms

Our browser made a total of 19 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that all of those requests were addressed to Branchout.co.za and no external sources were called. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.9 sec) belongs to the original domain Branchout.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 111.2 kB (10%)

Content Size

1.1 MB

After Optimization

978.9 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Branchout.co.za main page is 1.1 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. 40% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 892.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-72%

Potential reduce by 9.5 kB

  • Original 13.2 kB
  • After minification 11.7 kB
  • After compression 3.7 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 1.5 kB, which is 11% 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 9.5 kB or 72% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 43.6 kB

  • Original 892.8 kB
  • After minification 849.2 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. Branch Out images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-40%

Potential reduce by 48.2 kB

  • Original 120.4 kB
  • After minification 120.4 kB
  • After compression 72.2 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 48.2 kB or 40% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-15%

Potential reduce by 9.8 kB

  • Original 63.7 kB
  • After minification 63.7 kB
  • After compression 53.8 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. Branchout.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 9.8 kB or 15% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 4 (24%)

Requests Now

17

After Optimization

13

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 17 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Branch Out. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 5 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

branchout.co.za

branchout.co.za

913 ms

jquery.js

jquery.js

930 ms

bootstrap.min.js

bootstrap.min.js

602 ms

layout.core.js

layout.core.js

776 ms

CloudZoom.js

CloudZoom.js

663 ms

bootstrap.css

bootstrap.css

1226 ms

template.css

template.css

1915 ms

script.js

script.js

1207 ms

31c72a6114047a15539cbd2fedbc7679_HeadeBGmin.jpg

31c72a6114047a15539cbd2fedbc7679_HeadeBGmin.jpg

305 ms

9e53dadb3ac85305ad1a59031a3982c7_Header2min.jpg

9e53dadb3ac85305ad1a59031a3982c7_Header2min.jpg

912 ms

508e8c5dcc68e35e95d3ea8858546906_menumoduleheader.png

508e8c5dcc68e35e95d3ea8858546906_menumoduleheader.png

308 ms

branchout_tree_farm_1.jpg

branchout_tree_farm_1.jpg

621 ms

home1.jpg

home1.jpg

1196 ms

home2.jpg

home2.jpg

913 ms

home3.jpg

home3.jpg

910 ms

home4.jpg

home4.jpg

1226 ms

home5.jpg

home5.jpg

1237 ms

home6.jpg

home6.jpg

1516 ms

BillionWebFonts.woff

BillionWebFonts.woff

1460 ms

Accessibility Review

branchout.co.za accessibility score

95

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.

Best Practices

branchout.co.za best practices score

75

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

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

branchout.co.za SEO score

95

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 Branchout.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 Branchout.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

branchout.co.za

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Branch Out. 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: