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Report Summary

  • 56

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    72% of other websites

  • 98

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 94% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    94% of websites

instruments.co.za

AWR Smith Process Instrumentation Home :: Instruments.co.za - A.W.R. Smith Process Instrumentation

Page Load Speed

2.5 sec in total

First Response

671 ms

Resources Loaded

1.6 sec

Page Rendered

281 ms

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About Website

Visit instruments.co.za now to see the best up-to-date Instruments content for South Africa and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about instruments.co.za

Portable Test and Measuring Instruments for Environmental, Industrial and Process since 1987

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Key Findings

We analyzed Instruments.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 671 ms and then it took 1.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 40% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

instruments.co.za performance score

56

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.7 s

12/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.3 s

10/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.1 s

61/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value140 ms

95/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value9.2 s

32/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

instruments.co.za

671 ms

global.css

108 ms

compatibility.css

70 ms

jquery.fancybox.css

71 ms

blocksocial.css

69 ms

Our browser made a total of 72 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 89% of them (64 requests) were addressed to the original Instruments.co.za, 6% (4 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 1% (1 request) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (671 ms) belongs to the original domain Instruments.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 457.7 kB (48%)

Content Size

955.3 kB

After Optimization

497.6 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Instruments.co.za main page is 955.3 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. 45% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 372.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-88%

Potential reduce by 65.8 kB

  • Original 74.4 kB
  • After minification 55.8 kB
  • After compression 8.6 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 18.6 kB, which is 25% 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 65.8 kB or 88% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 11.8 kB

  • Original 372.7 kB
  • After minification 360.9 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. Instruments images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-69%

Potential reduce by 203.1 kB

  • Original 296.2 kB
  • After minification 273.7 kB
  • After compression 93.2 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 203.1 kB or 69% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 177.1 kB

  • Original 211.9 kB
  • After minification 173.9 kB
  • After compression 34.8 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. Instruments.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 177.1 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 43 (66%)

Requests Now

65

After Optimization

22

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 65 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Instruments. 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 18 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

instruments.co.za

instruments.co.za

671 ms

global.css

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108 ms

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70 ms

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71 ms

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69 ms

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69 ms

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72 ms

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93 ms

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95 ms

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95 ms

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96 ms

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120 ms

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119 ms

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121 ms

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120 ms

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130 ms

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140 ms

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139 ms

css

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38 ms

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170 ms

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139 ms

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147 ms

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169 ms

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162 ms

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186 ms

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211 ms

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210 ms

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215 ms

trigger.js

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214 ms

blocksocial.js

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216 ms

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73 ms

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28 ms

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234 ms

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193 ms

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193 ms

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192 ms

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192 ms

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214 ms

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189 ms

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190 ms

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Accessibility Review

instruments.co.za accessibility score

98

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.

Best Practices

instruments.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

instruments.co.za SEO score

100

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

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 Instruments.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 Instruments.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

instruments.co.za

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