Report Summary

  • 83

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    88% of other websites

  • 73

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 39% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 87

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    66% of websites

essentialoils.co.za

Redirecting to https://agelesshealth.co.za/

Page Load Speed

12.3 sec in total

First Response

369 ms

Resources Loaded

4.7 sec

Page Rendered

7.2 sec

essentialoils.co.za screenshot

About Website

Welcome to essentialoils.co.za homepage info - get ready to check Essentialoils best content for United States right away, or after learning these important things about essentialoils.co.za

We supply essential oils for aromatherapy and also have hundred of pages of free information about essential oils, aromatherapy and other related topics.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Essentialoils.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 369 ms and then it took 11.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 90% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

essentialoils.co.za performance score

83

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.4 s

97/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.6 s

62/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value1.4 s

100/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value240 ms

85/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.055

98/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value4.7 s

80/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

essentialoils.co.za

369 ms

style.css

32 ms

analytics.js

1470 ms

ctfa-logo.jpg

2080 ms

pci_dss_compliant.jpg

1758 ms

Our browser made a total of 23 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 52% of them (12 requests) were addressed to the original Essentialoils.co.za, 39% (9 requests) were made to Sallamanderconcepts.com and 9% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (3.5 sec) relates to the external source Sallamanderconcepts.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 35.6 kB (11%)

Content Size

331.0 kB

After Optimization

295.3 kB

In fact, the total size of Essentialoils.co.za main page is 331.0 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. 30% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 284.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 18.5 kB

  • Original 23.7 kB
  • After minification 22.2 kB
  • After compression 5.1 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 18.5 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 15.8 kB

  • Original 284.8 kB
  • After minification 269.0 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. Essentialoils images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 50 B

  • Original 21.0 kB
  • After minification 21.0 kB
  • After compression 20.9 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.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 1.3 kB

  • Original 1.6 kB
  • After minification 1.1 kB
  • After compression 250 B

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. Essentialoils.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 1.3 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

22

After Optimization

22

The browser has sent 22 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Essentialoils. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Accessibility Review

essentialoils.co.za accessibility score

73

Accessibility Issues

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

essentialoils.co.za best practices score

67

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

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

SEO Factors

essentialoils.co.za SEO score

87

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

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

    WINDOWS-1252

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Essentialoils.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 Essentialoils.co.za main page’s claimed encoding is windows-1252. 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

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