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Report Summary

  • 86

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    89% of other websites

  • 68

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 33% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 67

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    25% of websites

capepotterysupplies.co.za

Cape Pottery Supplies for clay, glazes, kilns, underglazes, pottery wheels

Page Load Speed

3.8 sec in total

First Response

874 ms

Resources Loaded

2.7 sec

Page Rendered

239 ms

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About Website

Click here to check amazing Cape Pottery Supplies content for South Africa. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about capepotterysupplies.co.za

Cape Pottery Supplies supplies stoneware, earthenware clay, porcelain, casting slip, glazes, kilns, underglazes, pottery wheels, stains, bisque ware, books, acrylic bisque paint, pugmilss, shelves.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Capepotterysupplies.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 874 ms and then it took 3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

capepotterysupplies.co.za performance score

86

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.0 s

100/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.8 s

83/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.3 s

90/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.281

43/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value1.0 s

100/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

capepotterysupplies.co.za

874 ms

kilnstyles.css

262 ms

site.js

516 ms

home_1549888844.jpg

1314 ms

home_2_1516872835.jpg

1308 ms

Our browser made a total of 18 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 61% of them (11 requests) were addressed to the original Capepotterysupplies.co.za, 39% (7 requests) were made to Kilncontracts.co.za. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.3 sec) relates to the external source Kilncontracts.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 34.8 kB (17%)

Content Size

208.2 kB

After Optimization

173.4 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Capepotterysupplies.co.za main page is 208.2 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. 15% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 173.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-91%

Potential reduce by 30.1 kB

  • Original 33.1 kB
  • After minification 18.2 kB
  • After compression 3.0 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 15.0 kB, which is 45% 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 30.1 kB or 91% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 4.5 kB

  • Original 173.8 kB
  • After minification 169.3 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. Cape Pottery Supplies images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-10%

Potential reduce by 79 B

  • Original 771 B
  • After minification 771 B
  • After compression 692 B

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.

CSS Optimization

-14%

Potential reduce by 73 B

  • Original 506 B
  • After minification 506 B
  • After compression 433 B

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. Capepotterysupplies.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 73 B or 14% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

17

After Optimization

17

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 17 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Cape Pottery Supplies. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Network Requests Diagram

capepotterysupplies.co.za

capepotterysupplies.co.za

874 ms

kilnstyles.css

kilnstyles.css

262 ms

site.js

site.js

516 ms

home_1549888844.jpg

home_1549888844.jpg

1314 ms

home_2_1516872835.jpg

home_2_1516872835.jpg

1308 ms

news_thumb_1518613724.jpg

news_thumb_1518613724.jpg

792 ms

news_thumb_1630071533.jpg

news_thumb_1630071533.jpg

790 ms

news_thumb_1502457979.jpg

news_thumb_1502457979.jpg

797 ms

news_thumb_1507642786.jpg

news_thumb_1507642786.jpg

798 ms

news_thumb_1502457298.jpg

news_thumb_1502457298.jpg

1054 ms

lbg.jpg

lbg.jpg

265 ms

sp.gif

sp.gif

264 ms

topleft.jpg

topleft.jpg

519 ms

topright.jpg

topright.jpg

774 ms

cart.gif

cart.gif

517 ms

hors.gif

hors.gif

527 ms

newsbg.jpg

newsbg.jpg

525 ms

rbg.jpg

rbg.jpg

525 ms

Accessibility Review

capepotterysupplies.co.za accessibility score

68

Accessibility Issues

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

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

Best Practices

capepotterysupplies.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

SEO Factors

capepotterysupplies.co.za SEO score

67

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Capepotterysupplies.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 Capepotterysupplies.co.za main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

capepotterysupplies.co.za

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Cape Pottery Supplies. 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: