Report Summary

  • 98

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    95% of other websites

  • 78

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 46% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 77

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    36% of websites

computers.co.za

Computers.co.za - buy your Computer, notebook or netbook with best advice from the leading computer blog!

Page Load Speed

1.9 sec in total

First Response

405 ms

Resources Loaded

1.1 sec

Page Rendered

354 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Computers.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 405 ms and then it took 1.5 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

computers.co.za performance score

98

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.3 s

98/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value1.6 s

99/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value1.3 s

100/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.111

87/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value1.3 s

100/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

computers.co.za

405 ms

style.css

103 ms

wp-embed.min.js

203 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

104 ms

2349384744_3a31676005_m.jpg

188 ms

Our browser made a total of 14 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 64% of them (9 requests) were addressed to the original Computers.co.za, 14% (2 requests) were made to Farm3.static.flickr.com and 7% (1 request) were made to Blogs.tech-recipes.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (405 ms) belongs to the original domain Computers.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 43.3 kB (35%)

Content Size

124.8 kB

After Optimization

81.5 kB

In fact, the total size of Computers.co.za main page is 124.8 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 67.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-66%

Potential reduce by 10.7 kB

  • Original 16.3 kB
  • After minification 15.3 kB
  • After compression 5.6 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 10.7 kB or 66% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 917 B

  • Original 67.7 kB
  • After minification 66.7 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. Computers images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 27.1 kB

  • Original 35.2 kB
  • After minification 35.2 kB
  • After compression 8.1 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 27.1 kB or 77% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 4.5 kB

  • Original 5.6 kB
  • After minification 3.4 kB
  • After compression 1.1 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. Computers.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 4.5 kB or 81% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

12

After Optimization

12

The browser has sent 12 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Computers. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Accessibility Review

computers.co.za accessibility score

78

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

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>).

Best Practices

computers.co.za best practices score

67

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

SEO Factors

computers.co.za SEO score

77

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Computers.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 Computers.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 Computers. 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: