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Report Summary

  • 50

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    68% of other websites

  • 51

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 21% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    20% of websites

  • 75

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    32% of websites

electricity.co.za

Prepaid Electricity, Water, Gas, Airtime & more.. | Prepaid | Top-Up | Recharge | 24 Hours Online prepaid Products & Services

Page Load Speed

8.7 sec in total

First Response

1.2 sec

Resources Loaded

7.2 sec

Page Rendered

262 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Electricity.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 1.2 sec and then it took 7.5 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

electricity.co.za performance score

50

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.4 s

2/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.3 s

2/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value10.2 s

8/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value70 ms

99/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.022

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value8.2 s

40/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

electricity.co.za

1165 ms

www.electricity.co.za

2073 ms

styles.css

616 ms

jquery-3.3.1.min.js

1536 ms

sdk.js

22 ms

Our browser made a total of 30 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 70% of them (21 requests) were addressed to the original Electricity.co.za, 13% (4 requests) were made to Platform.twitter.com and 7% (2 requests) were made to Connect.facebook.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.6 sec) belongs to the original domain Electricity.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 123.5 kB (21%)

Content Size

601.0 kB

After Optimization

477.5 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Electricity.co.za main page is 601.0 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. 45% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 451.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 31.6 kB

  • Original 39.9 kB
  • After minification 28.8 kB
  • After compression 8.3 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 11.2 kB, which is 28% 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 31.6 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 16.7 kB

  • Original 451.5 kB
  • After minification 434.8 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. Electricity images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-65%

Potential reduce by 56.4 kB

  • Original 86.9 kB
  • After minification 86.9 kB
  • After compression 30.5 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 56.4 kB or 65% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 18.8 kB

  • Original 22.7 kB
  • After minification 15.7 kB
  • After compression 3.9 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. Electricity.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 18.8 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 4 (15%)

Requests Now

26

After Optimization

22

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 26 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Electricity. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 5 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

electricity.co.za

electricity.co.za

1165 ms

www.electricity.co.za

www.electricity.co.za

2073 ms

styles.css

styles.css

616 ms

jquery-3.3.1.min.js

jquery-3.3.1.min.js

1536 ms

sdk.js

sdk.js

22 ms

widgets.js

widgets.js

97 ms

bg8.jpg

bg8.jpg

924 ms

logo-static.jpg

logo-static.jpg

619 ms

logo-text.png

logo-text.png

614 ms

profile.png

profile.png

922 ms

1.png

1.png

929 ms

2.png

2.png

1151 ms

3.png

3.png

1174 ms

4.png

4.png

1178 ms

about-about.png

about-about.png

1534 ms

question.png

question.png

1233 ms

about-elec.png

about-elec.png

1547 ms

menu.png

menu.png

1442 ms

facebook1.png

facebook1.png

1468 ms

twitter1.png

twitter1.png

1473 ms

instagram1.png

instagram1.png

1526 ms

sdk.js

sdk.js

48 ms

widget_iframe.2f70fb173b9000da126c79afe2098f02.html

widget_iframe.2f70fb173b9000da126c79afe2098f02.html

76 ms

Steinerlight.ttf

Steinerlight.ttf

1693 ms

pakenham%20rg.ttf

pakenham%20rg.ttf

2648 ms

54 ms

settings

settings

101 ms

button.856debeac157d9669cf51e73a08fbc93.js

button.856debeac157d9669cf51e73a08fbc93.js

21 ms

embeds

embeds

38 ms

follow_button.2f70fb173b9000da126c79afe2098f02.en.html

follow_button.2f70fb173b9000da126c79afe2098f02.en.html

35 ms

Accessibility Review

electricity.co.za accessibility score

51

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

[id] attributes on active, focusable elements are not unique

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

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

electricity.co.za best practices score

58

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

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

electricity.co.za SEO score

75

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

Crawling and Indexing

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

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Electricity.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 Electricity.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

electricity.co.za

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