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Report Summary

  • 77

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    85% of other websites

  • 51

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 21% of websites

  • 50

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    18% of websites

  • 42

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    18% of websites

davidwalters.co.za

South African ceramics and pottery. David Walters - designer craftsman

Page Load Speed

4 sec in total

First Response

1.1 sec

Resources Loaded

2.7 sec

Page Rendered

218 ms

davidwalters.co.za screenshot

About Website

Click here to check amazing David Walters content. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about davidwalters.co.za

South African master craftsman David Walters specialises in hand-thrown,reduction-fired fine porcelain, smoke-fired porcelain and slumped glass

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Key Findings

We analyzed Davidwalters.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 1.1 sec 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

davidwalters.co.za performance score

77

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.7 s

58/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.7 s

84/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.2 s

78/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value440 ms

63/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.066

97/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value4.0 s

87/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

davidwalters.co.za

1093 ms

dw.css

256 ms

nav.css

505 ms

jquery-1.5.js

21 ms

blogger.js

111 ms

Our browser made a total of 27 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 81% of them (22 requests) were addressed to the original Davidwalters.co.za, 7% (2 requests) were made to Mobile.twitter.com and 7% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.1 sec) belongs to the original domain Davidwalters.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 16.8 kB (16%)

Content Size

105.2 kB

After Optimization

88.4 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Davidwalters.co.za main page is 105.2 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. 20% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 67.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 10.6 kB

  • Original 13.3 kB
  • After minification 8.6 kB
  • After compression 2.7 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 4.7 kB, which is 35% 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 10.6 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 72 B

  • Original 67.1 kB
  • After minification 67.0 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. David Walters images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 34 B

  • Original 17.2 kB
  • After minification 17.2 kB
  • After compression 17.1 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 6.1 kB

  • Original 7.6 kB
  • After minification 6.3 kB
  • After compression 1.5 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. Davidwalters.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 6.1 kB or 80% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 6 (25%)

Requests Now

24

After Optimization

18

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

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

Network Requests Diagram

davidwalters.co.za

davidwalters.co.za

1093 ms

dw.css

dw.css

256 ms

nav.css

nav.css

505 ms

jquery-1.5.js

jquery-1.5.js

21 ms

blogger.js

blogger.js

111 ms

davidwalterssa.json

davidwalterssa.json

109 ms

header.jpg

header.jpg

259 ms

nav_home.gif

nav_home.gif

251 ms

nav_david.gif

nav_david.gif

489 ms

nav_sarah.gif

nav_sarah.gif

500 ms

nav_events.gif

nav_events.gif

500 ms

nav_gallery.gif

nav_gallery.gif

502 ms

nav_dinner_services.gif

nav_dinner_services.gif

510 ms

nav_techniques.gif

nav_techniques.gif

515 ms

nav_roubaix_house.gif

nav_roubaix_house.gif

731 ms

nav_contact.gif

nav_contact.gif

746 ms

home_page1.jpg

home_page1.jpg

995 ms

welcome.gif

welcome.gif

751 ms

dot.gif

dot.gif

763 ms

dinner_main_pic.jpg

dinner_main_pic.jpg

775 ms

dinnerware.gif

dinnerware.gif

976 ms

mailing_list.gif

mailing_list.gif

993 ms

security.gif

security.gif

1000 ms

subscribe.jpg

subscribe.jpg

1016 ms

footer_bg.jpg

footer_bg.jpg

945 ms

ga.js

ga.js

18 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

18 ms

Accessibility Review

davidwalters.co.za accessibility score

51

Accessibility Issues

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

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

High

<object> elements do not have alternate text

Best Practices

davidwalters.co.za best practices score

50

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

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

davidwalters.co.za SEO score

42

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

High

Links do not have descriptive text

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Document uses plugins

Crawling and Indexing

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

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    N/A

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Davidwalters.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 Davidwalters.co.za main page’s claimed encoding is . Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

davidwalters.co.za

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of David Walters. 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: