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Report Summary

  • 40

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    60% of other websites

  • 52

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 21% of websites

  • 62

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 69

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    28% of websites

dixonbatteries.co.za

Dixon Batteries

Page Load Speed

7.5 sec in total

First Response

647 ms

Resources Loaded

6.6 sec

Page Rendered

281 ms

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About Website

Click here to check amazing Dixon Batteries content for South Africa. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about dixonbatteries.co.za

DIXON batteries' vision is to be the preferred supplier of lead acid automotive batteries in the Southern African replacement market. By continually building quality and efficient products, caring for...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Dixonbatteries.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 647 ms and then it took 6.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 80% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

dixonbatteries.co.za performance score

40

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.9 s

5/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.0 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value12.1 s

4/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value410 ms

68/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.018

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value8.6 s

37/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

dixonbatteries.co.za

647 ms

www.dixonbatteries.co.za

1401 ms

97a591a345798ad757adac24a69b511e.css

583 ms

81b0b5ea3b9c8df494d7741a510f1932.js

1584 ms

threesixty.js

638 ms

Our browser made a total of 52 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 77% of them (40 requests) were addressed to the original Dixonbatteries.co.za, 12% (6 requests) were made to Js.klevu.com and 4% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.8 sec) belongs to the original domain Dixonbatteries.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.1 MB (49%)

Content Size

2.2 MB

After Optimization

1.1 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Dixonbatteries.co.za main page is 2.2 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. 35% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 62.1 kB

  • Original 74.5 kB
  • After minification 55.9 kB
  • After compression 12.4 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 18.6 kB, which is 25% 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 62.1 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-24%

Potential reduce by 283.7 kB

  • Original 1.2 MB
  • After minification 911.1 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. Obviously, Dixon Batteries needs image optimization as it can save up to 283.7 kB or 24% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 617.6 kB

  • Original 793.9 kB
  • After minification 651.4 kB
  • After compression 176.2 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 617.6 kB or 78% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 108.9 kB

  • Original 125.9 kB
  • After minification 94.4 kB
  • After compression 17.1 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. Dixonbatteries.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 108.9 kB or 86% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 16 (32%)

Requests Now

50

After Optimization

34

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 50 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Dixon Batteries. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 9 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

dixonbatteries.co.za

dixonbatteries.co.za

647 ms

www.dixonbatteries.co.za

www.dixonbatteries.co.za

1401 ms

97a591a345798ad757adac24a69b511e.css

97a591a345798ad757adac24a69b511e.css

583 ms

81b0b5ea3b9c8df494d7741a510f1932.js

81b0b5ea3b9c8df494d7741a510f1932.js

1584 ms

threesixty.js

threesixty.js

638 ms

header-bg.gif

header-bg.gif

347 ms

middle-bg.png

middle-bg.png

545 ms

logo.png

logo.png

764 ms

dot.png

dot.png

520 ms

searchbg.png

searchbg.png

517 ms

cartbg2.png

cartbg2.png

503 ms

head-shade-blue.gif

head-shade-blue.gif

585 ms

homeicon.png

homeicon.png

767 ms

ul-nav-bg.png

ul-nav-bg.png

756 ms

ul-nav-bg-bottom.png

ul-nav-bg-bottom.png

757 ms

head_corner.png

head_corner.png

779 ms

block-bg.gif

block-bg.gif

857 ms

factory111.png

factory111.png

1788 ms

factory21.png

factory21.png

2112 ms

nav_closed.gif

nav_closed.gif

1026 ms

bullet.gif

bullet.gif

1025 ms

steps_1.jpg

steps_1.jpg

1079 ms

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2100 ms

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white-opacity-80.png

1158 ms

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2014-08-25-11-08-55651045077.jpg

1786 ms

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1769 ms

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1431 ms

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1698 ms

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2202 ms

2015-06-04-02-06-20177014477.jpg

2015-06-04-02-06-20177014477.jpg

2535 ms

628_100.jpg

628_100.jpg

2124 ms

652_100.jpg

652_100.jpg

2109 ms

652E_100.jpg

652E_100.jpg

2393 ms

j250p_lt.jpg

j250p_lt.jpg

2395 ms

pmp243020001.png

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2747 ms

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2772 ms

jmk2.png

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2517 ms

pin024351100.png

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2672 ms

cep241621010.png

cep241621010.png

2699 ms

cards_icon.png

cards_icon.png

2774 ms

ga.js

ga.js

26 ms

klevu-webstore.js

klevu-webstore.js

26 ms

klarnainvoice.js

klarnainvoice.js

642 ms

klarnapart.js

klarnapart.js

645 ms

arrows.png

arrows.png

2757 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

14 ms

klevu-14328206031141584.js

klevu-14328206031141584.js

212 ms

klevu_search_box_klevu-14328206031141584.min.css

klevu_search_box_klevu-14328206031141584.min.css

336 ms

klevu-layout-basic.js

klevu-layout-basic.js

7 ms

klevu-loader.GIF

klevu-loader.GIF

4 ms

poweredbyklevu.png

poweredbyklevu.png

5 ms

nr-892.min.js

nr-892.min.js

43 ms

Accessibility Review

dixonbatteries.co.za accessibility score

52

Accessibility Issues

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.

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 IDs are not unique

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

Low

No form fields have multiple labels

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Form elements do not have associated labels

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

Best Practices

dixonbatteries.co.za best practices score

62

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

High

Registers an unload listener

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

dixonbatteries.co.za SEO score

69

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Dixonbatteries.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 Dixonbatteries.co.za main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. 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

dixonbatteries.co.za

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Dixon Batteries. 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: