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Report Summary

  • 57

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    73% of other websites

  • 87

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 66% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    94% of websites

electricpencil.co.za

Strategic Web Design for Business Growth | Electric Pencil

Page Load Speed

6.8 sec in total

First Response

809 ms

Resources Loaded

4.5 sec

Page Rendered

1.5 sec

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Electricpencil.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 809 ms and then it took 6 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

electricpencil.co.za performance score

57

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.6 s

14/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.4 s

9/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.1 s

45/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.148

76/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value4.9 s

78/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

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809 ms

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2009 ms

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275 ms

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484 ms

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1203 ms

Our browser made a total of 38 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 37% of them (14 requests) were addressed to the original Electricpencil.co.za, 39% (15 requests) were made to Hb.wpmucdn.com and 24% (9 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2 sec) belongs to the original domain Electricpencil.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 741.5 kB (48%)

Content Size

1.5 MB

After Optimization

795.0 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript

In fact, the total size of Electricpencil.co.za main page is 1.5 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. 35% of websites need less resources to load. HTML takes 856.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 724.0 kB

  • Original 856.2 kB
  • After minification 853.6 kB
  • After compression 132.3 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. 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 724.0 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 4.9 kB

  • Original 511.6 kB
  • After minification 506.6 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. Electric Pencil images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 12.5 kB

  • Original 168.6 kB
  • After minification 168.6 kB
  • After compression 156.1 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.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 21 (81%)

Requests Now

26

After Optimization

5

  • Images
  • JavaScript

The browser has sent 26 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Electric Pencil. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 17 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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2009 ms

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275 ms

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484 ms

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965 ms

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Accessibility Review

electricpencil.co.za accessibility score

87

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

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

electricpencil.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

electricpencil.co.za SEO score

100

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

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 Electricpencil.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 Electricpencil.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

electricpencil.co.za

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