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Report Summary

  • 27

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    47% of other websites

  • 91

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 77% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 87

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    66% of websites

efax.co.za

Online Fax - Send & Receive Faxes by Email or Online with eFax

Page Load Speed

8.9 sec in total

First Response

586 ms

Resources Loaded

6.7 sec

Page Rendered

1.6 sec

efax.co.za screenshot

About Website

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

eFax's world renowned online faxing service allows you to send and receive faxes over the internet safely and securely using your email account or the eFax mobile app. Faxes can be sent via PC or...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Efax.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 586 ms and then it took 8.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 85% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

efax.co.za performance score

27

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.9 s

26/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.4 s

21/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.6 s

54/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,090 ms

24/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.488

17/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value8.4 s

39/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.efax.eu

586 ms

dg.js

96 ms

jquery-3.5.1.min.js

2321 ms

RightNow.Client-2.7.0.js

2320 ms

bundle.tracing.min.js

85 ms

Our browser made a total of 65 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Efax.co.za, 12% (8 requests) were made to C.evidon.com and 9% (6 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.3 sec) relates to the external source Efax.eu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 632.8 kB (61%)

Content Size

1.0 MB

After Optimization

406.7 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Efax.co.za main page is 1.0 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 764.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-74%

Potential reduce by 35.7 kB

  • Original 48.6 kB
  • After minification 47.9 kB
  • After compression 12.9 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 35.7 kB or 74% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 1.5 kB

  • Original 223.7 kB
  • After minification 222.2 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. EFax images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 595.0 kB

  • Original 764.7 kB
  • After minification 764.5 kB
  • After compression 169.8 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 595.0 kB or 78% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-23%

Potential reduce by 566 B

  • Original 2.5 kB
  • After minification 2.5 kB
  • After compression 1.9 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. Efax.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 566 B or 23% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 37 (66%)

Requests Now

56

After Optimization

19

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 56 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of EFax. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 25 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

www.efax.eu

www.efax.eu

586 ms

dg.js

dg.js

96 ms

jquery-3.5.1.min.js

jquery-3.5.1.min.js

2321 ms

RightNow.Client-2.7.0.js

RightNow.Client-2.7.0.js

2320 ms

bundle.tracing.min.js

bundle.tracing.min.js

85 ms

lozad.js

lozad.js

2316 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

463 ms

evidon-sitenotice-tag.js

evidon-sitenotice-tag.js

271 ms

country.js

country.js

426 ms

snthemes.js

snthemes.js

426 ms

j.php

j.php

957 ms

bootstrap.min.css

bootstrap.min.css

727 ms

css

css

705 ms

font-awesome.min.css

font-awesome.min.css

830 ms

global.min.css

global.min.css

758 ms

c.js

c.js

668 ms

settingsV2.js

settingsV2.js

150 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

938 ms

conversion_async.js

conversion_async.js

924 ms

insight.min.js

insight.min.js

1053 ms

bat.js

bat.js

1038 ms

v.gif

v.gif

671 ms

bootstrap.min.js

bootstrap.min.js

590 ms

logo-efax.png

logo-efax.png

576 ms

pano-new-hp.jpg

pano-new-hp.jpg

525 ms

pano-30day-trial.jpg

pano-30day-trial.jpg

606 ms

bg-gradient-dark-blue.jpg

bg-gradient-dark-blue.jpg

609 ms

ktag.js

ktag.js

803 ms

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NaPDcZTIAOhVxoMyOr9n_E7ffBzCGItzZg.ttf

755 ms

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NaPDcZTIAOhVxoMyOr9n_E7ffHjDGItzZg.ttf

870 ms

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NaPDcZTIAOhVxoMyOr9n_E7ffEDBGItzZg.ttf

1364 ms

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NaPecZTIAOhVxoMyOr9n_E7fdMPmCA.ttf

1363 ms

NaPDcZTIAOhVxoMyOr9n_E7ffGjEGItzZg.ttf

NaPDcZTIAOhVxoMyOr9n_E7ffGjEGItzZg.ttf

1363 ms

NaPDcZTIAOhVxoMyOr9n_E7ffAzHGItzZg.ttf

NaPDcZTIAOhVxoMyOr9n_E7ffAzHGItzZg.ttf

1365 ms

fontawesome-webfont.woff

fontawesome-webfont.woff

667 ms

en.js

en.js

336 ms

evidon-banner.js

evidon-banner.js

335 ms

efax-swirl.png

efax-swirl.png

704 ms

logo-wired.png

logo-wired.png

773 ms

logo-forbes.png

logo-forbes.png

624 ms

logo-yahoo-smb.png

logo-yahoo-smb.png

825 ms

logo-cnn-money.png

logo-cnn-money.png

938 ms

logo-inc.png

logo-inc.png

708 ms

alpha.png

alpha.png

769 ms

icon-web.png

icon-web.png

823 ms

icon-smartphoneb6d70fce24f56cc6acd0ff0000199d84.png

icon-smartphoneb6d70fce24f56cc6acd0ff0000199d84.png

821 ms

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911 ms

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grpb0d70fce24f56cc6acd0ff0000199d84.png

1476 ms

thumbup-_1_.png

thumbup-_1_.png

1314 ms

logo-db.png

logo-db.png

1314 ms

logo-portwise.png

logo-portwise.png

1475 ms

clicktrue_invocation.js

clicktrue_invocation.js

916 ms

1

1

914 ms

769 ms

1258 ms

1288 ms

linkid.js

linkid.js

138 ms

collect

collect

398 ms

collect

collect

993 ms

collect

collect

505 ms

618 ms

ct

ct

611 ms

47 ms

44 ms

31 ms

Accessibility Review

efax.co.za accessibility score

91

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

[role] values are not valid

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

efax.co.za best practices score

67

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

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

efax.co.za SEO score

87

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 Efax.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 Efax.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

efax.co.za

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