Report Summary

  • 7

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    22% of other websites

  • 76

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 43% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 0

    SEO

cigars.co.za

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Page Load Speed

5.4 sec in total

First Response

1.2 sec

Resources Loaded

3.8 sec

Page Rendered

473 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Cigars.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 1.2 sec and then it took 4.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 65% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

cigars.co.za performance score

7

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.5 s

33/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value36.6 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value31.3 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value30,240 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.399

25/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value49.2 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

cigars.co.za

1182 ms

modernizr.js

5 ms

theme-e3ee74d0-6a04-0135-ea99-525400970412.css

113 ms

css

14 ms

bundle.js

10 ms

Our browser made a total of 80 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 4% of them (3 requests) were addressed to the original Cigars.co.za, 80% (64 requests) were made to Cdn3.bigcommerce.com and 8% (6 requests) were made to Cdn4.bigcommerce.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.8 sec) relates to the external source Cdn3.bigcommerce.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 341.8 kB (6%)

Content Size

5.6 MB

After Optimization

5.2 MB

In fact, the total size of Cigars.co.za main page is 5.6 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. 75% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Images take 5.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 209.1 kB

  • Original 241.3 kB
  • After minification 212.0 kB
  • After compression 32.2 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 29.3 kB, which is 12% 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 209.1 kB or 87% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 69.5 kB

  • Original 5.2 MB
  • After minification 5.2 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. Cigars images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-65%

Potential reduce by 63.2 kB

  • Original 97.4 kB
  • After minification 97.3 kB
  • After compression 34.2 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 63.2 kB or 65% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 5 (7%)

Requests Now

73

After Optimization

68

The browser has sent 73 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Cigars. 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.

Accessibility Review

cigars.co.za accessibility score

76

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

[aria-hidden="true"] elements contain focusable descendents

High

ARIA IDs are not unique

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.

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

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

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Lists do not contain only <li> elements and script supporting elements (<script> and <template>).

High

List items (<li>) are not contained within <ul> or <ol> parent elements.

Best practices

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

cigars.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

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

cigars.co.za SEO score

0

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 Cigars.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 Cigars.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 Cigars. 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: