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Report Summary

  • 16

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    30% of other websites

  • 90

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 74% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 96

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    90% of websites

fastway.co.za

Fastway Couriers | Home

Page Load Speed

6.5 sec in total

First Response

879 ms

Resources Loaded

5.3 sec

Page Rendered

360 ms

fastway.co.za screenshot

About Website

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

Fastway Couriers currently operates across key metropolitan and regional locations across South Africa, offering a low cost and fast courier delivery service. Franchise opportunities also available.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Fastway.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 879 ms and then it took 5.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 75% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

fastway.co.za performance score

16

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value7.2 s

1/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value21.1 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value14.0 s

1/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,520 ms

1/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.006

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value26.7 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

fastway.co.za

879 ms

www.fastway.co.za

1528 ms

bootstrap.min.css

429 ms

fastway.css

650 ms

font-awesome.css

655 ms

Our browser made a total of 41 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 54% of them (22 requests) were addressed to the original Fastway.co.za, 12% (5 requests) were made to Youtube.com and 10% (4 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.5 sec) belongs to the original domain Fastway.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 170.4 kB (20%)

Content Size

871.9 kB

After Optimization

701.5 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Fastway.co.za main page is 871.9 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. 80% 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 464.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 27.3 kB

  • Original 34.0 kB
  • After minification 27.0 kB
  • After compression 6.7 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 7.0 kB, which is 21% 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 27.3 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-20%

Potential reduce by 91.5 kB

  • Original 464.9 kB
  • After minification 373.4 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. Obviously, Fastway needs image optimization as it can save up to 91.5 kB or 20% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-18%

Potential reduce by 49.4 kB

  • Original 280.3 kB
  • After minification 280.3 kB
  • After compression 231.0 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 49.4 kB or 18% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 2.2 kB

  • Original 92.6 kB
  • After minification 92.6 kB
  • After compression 90.3 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. Fastway.co.za has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 16 (44%)

Requests Now

36

After Optimization

20

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 36 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Fastway. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 14 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

fastway.co.za

fastway.co.za

879 ms

www.fastway.co.za

www.fastway.co.za

1528 ms

bootstrap.min.css

bootstrap.min.css

429 ms

fastway.css

fastway.css

650 ms

font-awesome.css

font-awesome.css

655 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

1084 ms

bootstrap.min.js

bootstrap.min.js

654 ms

jquery.validate.min.js

jquery.validate.min.js

23 ms

js

js

53 ms

js

js

88 ms

3560013.js

3560013.js

199 ms

fastwaycouriers.png

fastwaycouriers.png

222 ms

toolsicon_faf.png

toolsicon_faf.png

220 ms

icon_ccl.png

icon_ccl.png

221 ms

ecommerce.png

ecommerce.png

224 ms

icon_franchise.png

icon_franchise.png

220 ms

fw_ewallet_homepage_icon-01.png

fw_ewallet_homepage_icon-01.png

225 ms

iconcontact_courier.png

iconcontact_courier.png

562 ms

youre-in-good-company-01.png

youre-in-good-company-01.png

1085 ms

facebook.png

facebook.png

560 ms

instagram.png

instagram.png

560 ms

linkedin.png

linkedin.png

561 ms

fastway-couriers-whatsapp-web-banner.png

fastway-couriers-whatsapp-web-banner.png

1478 ms

js

js

52 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

91 ms

js

js

99 ms

EswTwDVROPY

EswTwDVROPY

171 ms

fastway-light-webfont.woff

fastway-light-webfont.woff

774 ms

fastway-regular-webfont.woff

fastway-regular-webfont.woff

608 ms

fontawesome-webfont.woff

fontawesome-webfont.woff

988 ms

collect

collect

54 ms

collect

collect

59 ms

www-player.css

www-player.css

6 ms

www-embed-player.js

www-embed-player.js

30 ms

base.js

base.js

54 ms

ad_status.js

ad_status.js

157 ms

--9dH29IQ9CksBulhkJupx8P-yH9Jquge0_97VfE0Pw.js

--9dH29IQ9CksBulhkJupx8P-yH9Jquge0_97VfE0Pw.js

102 ms

embed.js

embed.js

37 ms

id

id

117 ms

Create

Create

96 ms

GenerateIT

GenerateIT

13 ms

Accessibility Review

fastway.co.za accessibility score

90

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.

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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

fastway.co.za best practices score

75

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

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

fastway.co.za SEO score

96

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 Fastway.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 Fastway.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

fastway.co.za

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