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Report Summary

  • 10

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    23% of other websites

  • 72

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 38% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 88

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    66% of websites

cbmafrica.co.za

Welcome | CBM Africa | Chew Bowen and Marais Africa | Consulting Engineers

Page Load Speed

7.3 sec in total

First Response

935 ms

Resources Loaded

6 sec

Page Rendered

413 ms

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About Website

Welcome to cbmafrica.co.za homepage info - get ready to check CBM Africa best content right away, or after learning these important things about cbmafrica.co.za

CBM Africa comprises a professional practice which provides a consulting service in the fields of Civil Engineering and Structural Engineering.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Cbmafrica.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 935 ms and then it took 6.4 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

cbmafrica.co.za performance score

10

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.3 s

3/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.3 s

10/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value11.9 s

4/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value7,280 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.264

46/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value21.2 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

cbmafrica.co.za

935 ms

www.cbmafrica.co.za

1349 ms

bootstrap.min.css

525 ms

bootstrap-theme.min.css

543 ms

main.css

582 ms

Our browser made a total of 52 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 56% of them (29 requests) were addressed to the original Cbmafrica.co.za, 12% (6 requests) were made to Youtube.com and 12% (6 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.2 sec) belongs to the original domain Cbmafrica.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 362.0 kB (21%)

Content Size

1.7 MB

After Optimization

1.4 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Cbmafrica.co.za main page is 1.7 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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-72%

Potential reduce by 10.8 kB

  • Original 15.0 kB
  • After minification 13.8 kB
  • After compression 4.1 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 10.8 kB or 72% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 15.4 kB

  • Original 1.2 MB
  • After minification 1.2 MB

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. CBM Africa images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-23%

Potential reduce by 24.3 kB

  • Original 105.1 kB
  • After minification 105.1 kB
  • After compression 80.8 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 24.3 kB or 23% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 311.4 kB

  • Original 368.5 kB
  • After minification 368.3 kB
  • After compression 57.0 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. Cbmafrica.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 311.4 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 19 (44%)

Requests Now

43

After Optimization

24

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 43 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of CBM Africa. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 14 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

cbmafrica.co.za

cbmafrica.co.za

935 ms

www.cbmafrica.co.za

www.cbmafrica.co.za

1349 ms

bootstrap.min.css

bootstrap.min.css

525 ms

bootstrap-theme.min.css

bootstrap-theme.min.css

543 ms

main.css

main.css

582 ms

modernizr-2.6.2-respond-1.1.0.min.js

modernizr-2.6.2-respond-1.1.0.min.js

607 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

13 ms

bootstrap.min.js

bootstrap.min.js

756 ms

flexslider-1.8.min.js

flexslider-1.8.min.js

610 ms

jquery.scrollUp.min.js

jquery.scrollUp.min.js

833 ms

jquery.colorbox-min.js

jquery.colorbox-min.js

825 ms

main.js

main.js

850 ms

css

css

17 ms

css

css

32 ms

css

css

34 ms

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old_mathematics.png

553 ms

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614 ms

lightpaperfibers.png

lightpaperfibers.png

1187 ms

CBM-Africa-Logo.jpg

CBM-Africa-Logo.jpg

1110 ms

slide-1.jpg

slide-1.jpg

1479 ms

slide-2.jpg

slide-2.jpg

1858 ms

slide-3.jpg

slide-3.jpg

1852 ms

slide-4.jpg

slide-4.jpg

1939 ms

slide-5.jpg

slide-5.jpg

2090 ms

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Gonubie-Main-Road-1.jpg

1844 ms

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cesa.jpg

1849 ms

ECSA.jpg

ECSA.jpg

1928 ms

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2124 ms

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246 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

100 ms

ajax.php

ajax.php

1932 ms

top.png

top.png

1968 ms

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65 ms

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79 ms

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bluprint-webfont.woff

2232 ms

collect

collect

138 ms

www-player.css

www-player.css

78 ms

www-embed-player.js

www-embed-player.js

76 ms

base.js

base.js

239 ms

fetch-polyfill.js

fetch-polyfill.js

60 ms

ad_status.js

ad_status.js

345 ms

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232 ms

embed.js

embed.js

31 ms

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116 ms

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285 ms

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280 ms

Create

Create

23 ms

GenerateIT

GenerateIT

15 ms

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260 ms

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276 ms

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16 ms

Accessibility Review

cbmafrica.co.za accessibility score

72

Accessibility Issues

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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

Best Practices

cbmafrica.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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

cbmafrica.co.za SEO score

88

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

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

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Cbmafrica.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 Cbmafrica.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

cbmafrica.co.za

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of CBM Africa. 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: