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Report Summary

  • 39

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    58% of other websites

  • 72

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 37% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 57

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    20% of websites

flowers.co.za

Online Florist | Flower Shop | Delivery | South Africa - FLOWERS.CO.ZA

Page Load Speed

30.9 sec in total

First Response

902 ms

Resources Loaded

18.4 sec

Page Rendered

11.5 sec

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About Website

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

Flowers.co.za is a leading online florist and flower shop we have a wide range of flower arrangements and gift hampers. Shop online today!

Visit flowers.co.za

Key Findings

We analyzed Flowers.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 902 ms and then it took 30 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is an excellent result, as only a small number of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

flowers.co.za performance score

39

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.5 s

6/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value11.9 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value14.0 s

1/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value410 ms

67/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value10.0 s

27/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

flowers.co.za

902 ms

www.flowers.co.za

2393 ms

analytics.js

75 ms

style.css

1026 ms

style-top.css

936 ms

Our browser made a total of 69 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 94% of them (65 requests) were addressed to the original Flowers.co.za, 3% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 1% (1 request) were made to Stats.g.doubleclick.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (5.6 sec) belongs to the original domain Flowers.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.1 MB (60%)

Content Size

1.8 MB

After Optimization

736.6 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Flowers.co.za main page is 1.8 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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 1.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 67.3 kB

  • Original 81.7 kB
  • After minification 73.8 kB
  • After compression 14.3 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 67.3 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 21.1 kB

  • Original 436.3 kB
  • After minification 415.2 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. FLOWERS images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 795.1 kB

  • Original 1.1 MB
  • After minification 865.0 kB
  • After compression 271.8 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 795.1 kB or 75% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 202.9 kB

  • Original 238.2 kB
  • After minification 187.4 kB
  • After compression 35.3 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. Flowers.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 202.9 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 26 (39%)

Requests Now

67

After Optimization

41

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 67 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of FLOWERS. 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 14 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

flowers.co.za

flowers.co.za

902 ms

www.flowers.co.za

www.flowers.co.za

2393 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

75 ms

style.css

style.css

1026 ms

style-top.css

style-top.css

936 ms

style-nav.css

style-nav.css

936 ms

style-billboard.css

style-billboard.css

935 ms

style-links.css

style-links.css

936 ms

style-footer.css

style-footer.css

975 ms

jquery-menu.css

jquery-menu.css

974 ms

jquery-1.10.2.min.js

jquery-1.10.2.min.js

1286 ms

angular.min.js

angular.min.js

1661 ms

ui-bootstrap-tpls-0.10.0.js

ui-bootstrap-tpls-0.10.0.js

1082 ms

bootstrap.css

bootstrap.css

1265 ms

jquery-latest.js

jquery-latest.js

2534 ms

rmenu.js

rmenu.js

1032 ms

collect

collect

226 ms

collect

collect

259 ms

jquery-jqsimplemenu.css

jquery-jqsimplemenu.css

301 ms

jqsimplemenu.js

jqsimplemenu.js

260 ms

jquery-responsiveslides.css

jquery-responsiveslides.css

1582 ms

responsiveslides.min.js

responsiveslides.min.js

1583 ms

jquery-ui.css

jquery-ui.css

1583 ms

jquery-ui.min.js

jquery-ui.min.js

2086 ms

prettify_bootstrap.css

prettify_bootstrap.css

1583 ms

prettify.js

prettify.js

1583 ms

jqBootstrapValidation.js

jqBootstrapValidation.js

1567 ms

jquery.placeholder.js

jquery.placeholder.js

2036 ms

wt-arrow.png

wt-arrow.png

621 ms

wn-logo-flowers.jpg

wn-logo-flowers.jpg

571 ms

flag-us.png

flag-us.png

572 ms

flag-uk.png

flag-uk.png

571 ms

flag-au.png

flag-au.png

571 ms

flag-nz.png

flag-nz.png

604 ms

flag-de.png

flag-de.png

604 ms

flag-za.png

flag-za.png

602 ms

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589 ms

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589 ms

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586 ms

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578 ms

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654 ms

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654 ms

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688 ms

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688 ms

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727 ms

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728 ms

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1095 ms

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1094 ms

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1094 ms

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1094 ms

wf-logos.png

wf-logos.png

1078 ms

wt-social.png

wt-social.png

839 ms

wt-icon-search.png

wt-icon-search.png

841 ms

wt-icon-basket.png

wt-icon-basket.png

809 ms

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835 ms

icon-loyalty.png

icon-loyalty.png

292 ms

icon-signup.png

icon-signup.png

250 ms

arrow-green.png

arrow-green.png

596 ms

icon-truck.png

icon-truck.png

223 ms

basket.png

basket.png

324 ms

wl-social.png

wl-social.png

428 ms

wl-satisfaction.png

wl-satisfaction.png

5636 ms

jquery.livehelp.js

jquery.livehelp.js

2525 ms

ui-bg_flat_75_ffffff_40x100.png

ui-bg_flat_75_ffffff_40x100.png

2282 ms

settings.php

settings.php

242 ms

css

css

33 ms

styles.css

styles.css

349 ms

visitor.php

visitor.php

1159 ms

Accessibility Review

flowers.co.za accessibility score

72

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

flowers.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

flowers.co.za SEO score

57

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

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 Flowers.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 Flowers.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

flowers.co.za

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