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Report Summary

  • 22

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    40% of other websites

  • 93

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 80% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 95

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    90% of websites

gridfreedomgroup.co.za

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Page Load Speed

13 sec in total

First Response

1.6 sec

Resources Loaded

10.6 sec

Page Rendered

831 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Gridfreedomgroup.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 1.6 sec and then it took 11.4 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

gridfreedomgroup.co.za performance score

22

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value7.1 s

1/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value27.1 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value20.3 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,170 ms

21/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.005

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value23.6 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

gridfreedomgroup.co.za

1612 ms

cookieblocker.min.css

593 ms

style.min.css

733 ms

theme.min.css

725 ms

header-footer.min.css

740 ms

Our browser made a total of 109 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 96% of them (105 requests) were addressed to the original Gridfreedomgroup.co.za, 2% (2 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com and 1% (1 request) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.5 sec) belongs to the original domain Gridfreedomgroup.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 220.4 kB (43%)

Content Size

510.6 kB

After Optimization

290.2 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript

In fact, the total size of Gridfreedomgroup.co.za main page is 510.6 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. 55% of websites need less resources to load. HTML takes 292.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 218.4 kB

  • Original 292.4 kB
  • After minification 280.7 kB
  • After compression 74.0 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 218.4 kB or 75% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-15%

Potential reduce by 1.7 kB

  • Original 11.3 kB
  • After minification 9.7 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, Gridfreedomgroup needs image optimization as it can save up to 1.7 kB or 15% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 376 B

  • Original 206.9 kB
  • After minification 206.9 kB
  • After compression 206.5 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 59 (61%)

Requests Now

96

After Optimization

37

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 96 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Gridfreedomgroup. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 27 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 34 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

gridfreedomgroup.co.za

gridfreedomgroup.co.za

1612 ms

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593 ms

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Accessibility Review

gridfreedomgroup.co.za accessibility score

93

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

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

gridfreedomgroup.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

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

gridfreedomgroup.co.za SEO score

95

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 Gridfreedomgroup.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 Gridfreedomgroup.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

gridfreedomgroup.co.za

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