Report Summary

  • 66

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    79% of other websites

  • 70

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 36% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 77

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    36% of websites

cashloan.co.za

Cash Loans

Page Load Speed

2 sec in total

First Response

356 ms

Resources Loaded

1.4 sec

Page Rendered

255 ms

cashloan.co.za screenshot

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Cashloan.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 356 ms and then it took 1.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 30% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

cashloan.co.za performance score

66

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.7 s

30/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.0 s

27/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.6 s

71/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value160 ms

94/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.025

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value6.2 s

62/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

cashloan.co.za

356 ms

bootstrap.min.css

355 ms

custom.css

265 ms

jquery-1.10.2.min.js

311 ms

google-analytics.js

176 ms

Our browser made a total of 29 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 76% of them (22 requests) were addressed to the original Cashloan.co.za, 10% (3 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 3% (1 request) were made to Use.typekit.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (452 ms) belongs to the original domain Cashloan.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 345.8 kB (52%)

Content Size

666.5 kB

After Optimization

320.6 kB

In fact, the total size of Cashloan.co.za main page is 666.5 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. 25% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 265.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-67%

Potential reduce by 15.9 kB

  • Original 23.5 kB
  • After minification 20.3 kB
  • After compression 7.7 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 3.2 kB, which is 14% 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 15.9 kB or 67% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 11.8 kB

  • Original 222.7 kB
  • After minification 210.9 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. Cash Loan images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-70%

Potential reduce by 186.3 kB

  • Original 265.6 kB
  • After minification 212.2 kB
  • After compression 79.3 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 186.3 kB or 70% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 131.9 kB

  • Original 154.7 kB
  • After minification 128.8 kB
  • After compression 22.8 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. Cashloan.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 131.9 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 11 (39%)

Requests Now

28

After Optimization

17

The browser has sent 28 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Cash Loan. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 12 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

cashloan.co.za accessibility score

70

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.

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

High

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

cashloan.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

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

cashloan.co.za SEO score

77

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

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

robots.txt is not valid

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 Cashloan.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 Cashloan.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

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Cash Loan. 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: