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Report Summary

  • 29

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    49% of other websites

  • 69

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 35% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 97

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    91% of websites

cosmeticconnection.co.za

Cosmetic Connection

Page Load Speed

3.4 sec in total

First Response

531 ms

Resources Loaded

2.6 sec

Page Rendered

297 ms

cosmeticconnection.co.za screenshot

About Website

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

Cosmetic Connection is a leading retail store chain that specializes in hair, beauty, body, and home products. With 65 stores located throughout South Africa and Lesotho, Cosmetic Connection is commit...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Cosmeticconnection.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 531 ms and then it took 2.9 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

cosmeticconnection.co.za performance score

29

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.8 s

56/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.6 s

17/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.9 s

34/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,870 ms

1/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.031

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value17.4 s

4/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.cosmeticconnection.co.za

531 ms

lazysizes.min.js

29 ms

global.min.js

43 ms

preloads.js

78 ms

load_feature-87876fa245af19cbd14aa886ed59c6aa8a27c45d24dcd7a81cf2d2323506233e.js

32 ms

Our browser made a total of 71 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 90% of them (64 requests) were addressed to the original Cosmeticconnection.co.za, 1% (1 request) were made to Customerhub.b-cdn.net and 1% (1 request) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (531 ms) belongs to the original domain Cosmeticconnection.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 269.9 kB (36%)

Content Size

743.3 kB

After Optimization

473.4 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Cosmeticconnection.co.za main page is 743.3 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. 50% of websites need less resources to load. HTML takes 253.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 210.2 kB

  • Original 253.7 kB
  • After minification 243.8 kB
  • After compression 43.5 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 210.2 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 2.0 kB

  • Original 155.4 kB
  • After minification 153.4 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. Cosmetic Connection images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-21%

Potential reduce by 42.5 kB

  • Original 207.0 kB
  • After minification 207.0 kB
  • After compression 164.5 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 42.5 kB or 21% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-12%

Potential reduce by 15.2 kB

  • Original 127.2 kB
  • After minification 127.2 kB
  • After compression 112.0 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. Cosmeticconnection.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 15.2 kB or 12% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 58 (89%)

Requests Now

65

After Optimization

7

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 65 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Cosmetic Connection. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 13 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 30 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

www.cosmeticconnection.co.za

www.cosmeticconnection.co.za

531 ms

lazysizes.min.js

lazysizes.min.js

29 ms

global.min.js

global.min.js

43 ms

preloads.js

preloads.js

78 ms

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32 ms

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34 ms

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43 ms

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78 ms

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76 ms

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78 ms

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79 ms

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105 ms

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92 ms

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136 ms

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138 ms

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135 ms

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107 ms

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18 ms

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Accessibility Review

cosmeticconnection.co.za accessibility score

69

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

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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.

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

cosmeticconnection.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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

cosmeticconnection.co.za SEO score

97

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

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

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 Cosmeticconnection.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 Cosmeticconnection.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

cosmeticconnection.co.za

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