Report Summary

  • 24

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    43% of other websites

  • 83

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 56% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 77

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    36% of websites

homecomingrevolution.co.za

Home - HomecomingEX

Page Load Speed

12.1 sec in total

First Response

2 sec

Resources Loaded

9.9 sec

Page Rendered

225 ms

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About Website

Click here to check amazing Home Comingrevolution content. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about homecomingrevolution.co.za

Homecoming Revolution is a pan-African recruitment firm for global African professionals. We specialise in headhunting & placing global African talent.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Homecomingrevolution.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 2 sec and then it took 10.1 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

homecomingrevolution.co.za performance score

24

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value8.4 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value23.2 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value27.8 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value930 ms

30/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.022

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value20.1 s

2/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

homecomingrevolution.com

2027 ms

style.css

494 ms

admin-ajax.php

1058 ms

styles.css

497 ms

font-awesome.min.css

501 ms

Our browser made a total of 115 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Homecomingrevolution.co.za, 4% (5 requests) were made to Platform.twitter.com and 3% (4 requests) were made to Platform.linkedin.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (5.2 sec) relates to the external source Homecomingrevolution.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 5.4 MB (67%)

Content Size

8.1 MB

After Optimization

2.7 MB

In fact, the total size of Homecomingrevolution.co.za main page is 8.1 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. Images take 7.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 68.3 kB

  • Original 83.6 kB
  • After minification 73.1 kB
  • After compression 15.3 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 10.5 kB, which is 13% 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 68.3 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-66%

Potential reduce by 4.7 MB

  • Original 7.1 MB
  • After minification 2.4 MB

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, Home Comingrevolution needs image optimization as it can save up to 4.7 MB or 66% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-69%

Potential reduce by 445.5 kB

  • Original 643.8 kB
  • After minification 604.4 kB
  • After compression 198.2 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 445.5 kB or 69% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 176.2 kB

  • Original 215.6 kB
  • After minification 183.3 kB
  • After compression 39.3 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. Homecomingrevolution.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 176.2 kB or 82% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 69 (61%)

Requests Now

114

After Optimization

45

The browser has sent 114 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Home Comingrevolution. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 41 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 20 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

homecomingrevolution.co.za accessibility score

83

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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

homecomingrevolution.co.za best practices score

83

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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

homecomingrevolution.co.za SEO score

77

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

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Homecomingrevolution.co.za can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Homecomingrevolution.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

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