Report Summary

  • 54

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    72% of other websites

  • 75

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 42% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 95

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    91% of websites

dodos.co.za

Dodos Shoes | Shoe Shops South Africa | Buy Shoes Online

Page Load Speed

21.1 sec in total

First Response

1.9 sec

Resources Loaded

16.3 sec

Page Rendered

2.9 sec

dodos.co.za screenshot

About Website

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

With 120 shoe stores spread across South Africa, Botswana, Namibia, Lesotho and Swaziland, Dodos has a footprint in urban, metropolitan and rural areas.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Dodos.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 1.9 sec and then it took 19.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is an excellent result, as only a small number of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

dodos.co.za performance score

54

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.2 s

3/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.2 s

11/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value14.2 s

1/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value10 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.001

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value6.2 s

62/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.dodos.co.za

1893 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

446 ms

styles.css

532 ms

style.css

526 ms

jquery.fancybox-1.3.4.css

528 ms

Our browser made a total of 186 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 92% of them (172 requests) were addressed to the original Dodos.co.za, 2% (4 requests) were made to Use.fontawesome.com and 1% (2 requests) were made to Maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (7.7 sec) belongs to the original domain Dodos.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.4 MB (26%)

Content Size

5.5 MB

After Optimization

4.1 MB

In fact, the total size of Dodos.co.za main page is 5.5 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. 85% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Images take 4.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-94%

Potential reduce by 271.2 kB

  • Original 288.9 kB
  • After minification 151.1 kB
  • After compression 17.7 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 137.9 kB, which is 48% 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 271.2 kB or 94% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-12%

Potential reduce by 514.6 kB

  • Original 4.3 MB
  • After minification 3.8 MB

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, Dodos needs image optimization as it can save up to 514.6 kB or 12% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-69%

Potential reduce by 394.3 kB

  • Original 571.5 kB
  • After minification 507.4 kB
  • After compression 177.3 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 394.3 kB or 69% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 264.0 kB

  • Original 343.2 kB
  • After minification 316.9 kB
  • After compression 79.2 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. Dodos.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 264.0 kB or 77% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 48 (27%)

Requests Now

181

After Optimization

133

The browser has sent 181 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Dodos. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 30 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 20 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

dodos.co.za accessibility score

75

Accessibility Issues

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

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

dodos.co.za best practices score

92

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

SEO Factors

dodos.co.za SEO score

95

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