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Report Summary

  • 13

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    25% of other websites

  • 92

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 78% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    94% of websites

clarins.co.za

CLARINS: Natural Beauty, Skincare and Make-up powered by plants.

Page Load Speed

2.9 sec in total

First Response

239 ms

Resources Loaded

2.4 sec

Page Rendered

251 ms

clarins.co.za screenshot

About Website

Visit clarins.co.za now to see the best up-to-date CLARINS content for South Africa and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about clarins.co.za

The Science of Skincare since 1954. Shop Clarins’ range of ultra-effective targeted skincare formulas, made from sustainable natural ingredients.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Clarins.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 239 ms and then it took 2.6 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

clarins.co.za performance score

13

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.9 s

10/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.4 s

10/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.5 s

18/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,810 ms

9/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.418

23/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value12.7 s

14/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

clarins.co.za

239 ms

clarins.co.za

321 ms

www.clarins.co.za

716 ms

global_styles.css

39 ms

152bd49a058c0c792fca8d88d8572015.js

112 ms

Our browser made a total of 44 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 95% of them (42 requests) were addressed to the original Clarins.co.za, 2% (1 request) were made to Try.abtasty.com and 2% (1 request) were made to Cdn.cquotient.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (716 ms) belongs to the original domain Clarins.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 81.8 kB (17%)

Content Size

474.3 kB

After Optimization

392.5 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Clarins.co.za main page is 474.3 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. 45% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 287.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 81.5 kB

  • Original 100.5 kB
  • After minification 100.5 kB
  • After compression 18.9 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 81.5 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 33 B

  • Original 53.1 kB
  • After minification 53.0 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. CLARINS images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 197 B

  • Original 287.9 kB
  • After minification 287.9 kB
  • After compression 287.7 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 60 B

  • Original 32.9 kB
  • After minification 32.9 kB
  • After compression 32.9 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. Clarins.co.za has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 34 (83%)

Requests Now

41

After Optimization

7

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 41 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of CLARINS. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 24 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 12 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

clarins.co.za

clarins.co.za

239 ms

clarins.co.za

clarins.co.za

321 ms

www.clarins.co.za

www.clarins.co.za

716 ms

global_styles.css

global_styles.css

39 ms

152bd49a058c0c792fca8d88d8572015.js

152bd49a058c0c792fca8d88d8572015.js

112 ms

define_core_components.css

define_core_components.css

28 ms

custom-pagedesigner.css

custom-pagedesigner.css

339 ms

webcomponents-loader.js

webcomponents-loader.js

27 ms

pagedesignerbase_styles.css

pagedesignerbase_styles.css

347 ms

tagging.js

tagging.js

45 ms

base_tagging.js

base_tagging.js

46 ms

navigation_styles.css

navigation_styles.css

16 ms

custom-rewardsboutique-hamburger-menu.css

custom-rewardsboutique-hamburger-menu.css

14 ms

custom-logo-70years.css

custom-logo-70years.css

15 ms

cba-rewards-join-the-club-link.css

cba-rewards-join-the-club-link.css

26 ms

generics_lookup_dll.js

generics_lookup_dll.js

33 ms

commons_lookup_dll.js

commons_lookup_dll.js

31 ms

components_lookup_dll.js

components_lookup_dll.js

31 ms

global_script.js

global_script.js

39 ms

app_components_lib.js

app_components_lib.js

53 ms

app_components_account_lib.js

app_components_account_lib.js

47 ms

int_components_janrain_lib.js

int_components_janrain_lib.js

46 ms

app_components_tagging_lib.js

app_components_tagging_lib.js

51 ms

app_components_bonus_lib.js

app_components_bonus_lib.js

58 ms

app_components_rb_lib.js

app_components_rb_lib.js

61 ms

int_components_integrationplatform_lib.js

int_components_integrationplatform_lib.js

64 ms

int_components_mobicred_lib.js

int_components_mobicred_lib.js

67 ms

app_components_eu_lib.js

app_components_eu_lib.js

70 ms

priority_components.js

priority_components.js

75 ms

define_core_components.js

define_core_components.js

79 ms

dwanalytics-22.2.js

dwanalytics-22.2.js

79 ms

dwac-21.7.js

dwac-21.7.js

82 ms

gretel.min.js

gretel.min.js

12 ms

fonts.css

fonts.css

55 ms

polyfills.js

polyfills.js

484 ms

webcomponents-sd-ce-pf.js

webcomponents-sd-ce-pf.js

410 ms

logo-cba-70years.svg

logo-cba-70years.svg

28 ms

CBA_HP_Aspot-Desktop_LIPOIL_POWEROFCOLORS_2024.jpg

CBA_HP_Aspot-Desktop_LIPOIL_POWEROFCOLORS_2024.jpg

27 ms

expertadvice_icon.svg

expertadvice_icon.svg

23 ms

ui-overlay-shadow.png

ui-overlay-shadow.png

334 ms

Services_LiveConsultation-ZA-2.jpg

Services_LiveConsultation-ZA-2.jpg

43 ms

fonts.css

fonts.css

13 ms

fonts.css

fonts.css

12 ms

fonts.css

fonts.css

12 ms

Accessibility Review

clarins.co.za accessibility score

92

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-*] attributes are not valid or misspelled

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

clarins.co.za best practices score

83

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

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

clarins.co.za SEO score

100

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

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 Clarins.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 Clarins.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

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Open Graph data is detected on the main page of CLARINS. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: