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Report Summary

  • 3

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    20% of other websites

  • 89

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 72% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 96

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    91% of websites

hychem.co.za

Superior Cleaning Chemicals & Products | HYCHEM Cleaning Chemicals

Page Load Speed

4.7 sec in total

First Response

819 ms

Resources Loaded

3.7 sec

Page Rendered

196 ms

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About Website

Welcome to hychem.co.za homepage info - get ready to check HYCHEM best content for South Africa right away, or after learning these important things about hychem.co.za

HYCHEM is a leading supplier of high quality cleaning chemicals and cleaning accessories into the Southern African market.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Hychem.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 819 ms and then it took 3.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 60% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

hychem.co.za performance score

3

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value13.3 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value42.9 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value63.6 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value45,730 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.434

22/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value69.3 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

hychem.co.za

819 ms

AC_RunActiveContent.js

265 ms

jquery-1.4.1.js

1028 ms

myjs.js

508 ms

shadowbox.css

509 ms

Our browser made a total of 46 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 96% of them (44 requests) were addressed to the original Hychem.co.za, 4% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.2 sec) belongs to the original domain Hychem.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 391.1 kB (53%)

Content Size

744.0 kB

After Optimization

352.9 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Hychem.co.za main page is 744.0 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. 25% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 391.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 22.9 kB

  • Original 28.9 kB
  • After minification 22.2 kB
  • After compression 6.0 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 6.6 kB, which is 23% 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 22.9 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-25%

Potential reduce by 78.6 kB

  • Original 316.7 kB
  • After minification 238.1 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, HYCHEM needs image optimization as it can save up to 78.6 kB or 25% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-73%

Potential reduce by 284.1 kB

  • Original 391.1 kB
  • After minification 302.3 kB
  • After compression 106.9 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 284.1 kB or 73% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 5.5 kB

  • Original 7.3 kB
  • After minification 6.8 kB
  • After compression 1.8 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. Hychem.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 5.5 kB or 75% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 18 (40%)

Requests Now

45

After Optimization

27

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 45 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of HYCHEM. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 19 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

hychem.co.za

hychem.co.za

819 ms

AC_RunActiveContent.js

AC_RunActiveContent.js

265 ms

jquery-1.4.1.js

jquery-1.4.1.js

1028 ms

myjs.js

myjs.js

508 ms

shadowbox.css

shadowbox.css

509 ms

shadowbox.js

shadowbox.js

510 ms

style3.css

style3.css

522 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

793 ms

jquery.cycle.all.js

jquery.cycle.all.js

764 ms

jquery.easing.1.3.js

jquery.easing.1.3.js

761 ms

sizzle.js

sizzle.js

265 ms

shadowbox-en.js

shadowbox-en.js

254 ms

shadowbox-img.js

shadowbox-img.js

263 ms

shadowbox-html.js

shadowbox-html.js

255 ms

shadowbox-iframe.js

shadowbox-iframe.js

256 ms

shadowbox-qt.js

shadowbox-qt.js

256 ms

shadowbox-wmp.js

shadowbox-wmp.js

508 ms

swfobject.js

swfobject.js

510 ms

shadowbox-swf.js

shadowbox-swf.js

512 ms

shadowbox-flv.js

shadowbox-flv.js

513 ms

shadowbox-jquery.js

shadowbox-jquery.js

523 ms

ga.js

ga.js

56 ms

blank.png

blank.png

263 ms

hy.jpg

hy.jpg

255 ms

chem.jpg

chem.jpg

524 ms

PHOTO_Chemicals.jpg

PHOTO_Chemicals.jpg

256 ms

Magnesol.jpg

Magnesol.jpg

510 ms

Dont%20waste%20a%20drop.jpg

Dont%20waste%20a%20drop.jpg

513 ms

Chrisal%20Logo%202.jpg

Chrisal%20Logo%202.jpg

510 ms

SACA%20logo%20-%20corporateSmall.jpg

SACA%20logo%20-%20corporateSmall.jpg

765 ms

HasaLogo.jpg

HasaLogo.jpg

524 ms

logo.jpg

logo.jpg

765 ms

sabs.gif

sabs.gif

766 ms

leftBarBlue.png

leftBarBlue.png

733 ms

boxTLC.jpg

boxTLC.jpg

750 ms

boxT.jpg

boxT.jpg

751 ms

boxTRC.jpg

boxTRC.jpg

982 ms

boxL.jpg

boxL.jpg

984 ms

boxH2.jpg

boxH2.jpg

985 ms

boxR.jpg

boxR.jpg

985 ms

boxBLC.jpg

boxBLC.jpg

1010 ms

boxB.jpg

boxB.jpg

1012 ms

boxBRC.jpg

boxBRC.jpg

1233 ms

boxH2white.jpg

boxH2white.jpg

1237 ms

bullet.png

bullet.png

1238 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

13 ms

Accessibility Review

hychem.co.za accessibility score

89

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

[aria-hidden="true"] elements contain focusable descendents

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

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

hychem.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

hychem.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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Hychem.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 Hychem.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

hychem.co.za

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