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Report Summary

  • 56

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    72% of other websites

  • 79

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 47% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 81

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    43% of websites

insurancehound.co.za

Free Online Comparative Insurance Quotes | InsuranceHound.co.za | InsuranceHound.co.za

Page Load Speed

2 sec in total

First Response

92 ms

Resources Loaded

1.8 sec

Page Rendered

155 ms

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About Website

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

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Key Findings

We analyzed Insurancehound.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 92 ms and then it took 2 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

insurancehound.co.za performance score

56

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.2 s

79/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.6 s

61/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.0 s

94/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,260 ms

19/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.055

98/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value9.9 s

27/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

insurancehound.co.za

92 ms

insurancehound.co.za

307 ms

css

57 ms

bootstrap.min.css

51 ms

age-of-pets.css

167 ms

Our browser made a total of 50 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 56% of them (28 requests) were addressed to the original Insurancehound.co.za, 10% (5 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com and 8% (4 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (996 ms) belongs to the original domain Insurancehound.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 91.7 kB (38%)

Content Size

238.9 kB

After Optimization

147.2 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Insurancehound.co.za main page is 238.9 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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 101.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 32.0 kB

  • Original 41.2 kB
  • After minification 36.7 kB
  • After compression 9.2 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 4.5 kB, which is 11% 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 32.0 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-9%

Potential reduce by 9.4 kB

  • Original 101.6 kB
  • After minification 92.2 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. Insurance Hound images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-54%

Potential reduce by 48.9 kB

  • Original 90.7 kB
  • After minification 90.7 kB
  • After compression 41.8 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 48.9 kB or 54% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-24%

Potential reduce by 1.3 kB

  • Original 5.3 kB
  • After minification 5.3 kB
  • After compression 4.1 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. Insurancehound.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 1.3 kB or 24% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 22 (51%)

Requests Now

43

After Optimization

21

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 43 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Insurance Hound. 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 from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

insurancehound.co.za

insurancehound.co.za

92 ms

insurancehound.co.za

insurancehound.co.za

307 ms

css

css

57 ms

bootstrap.min.css

bootstrap.min.css

51 ms

age-of-pets.css

age-of-pets.css

167 ms

icomoon.css

icomoon.css

166 ms

style.css

style.css

181 ms

js

js

84 ms

jquery-3.1.0.min.js

jquery-3.1.0.min.js

24 ms

bootstrap.min.js

bootstrap.min.js

24 ms

moment.js

moment.js

33 ms

modernizr-2.8.3.js

modernizr-2.8.3.js

243 ms

jquery.validate.js

jquery.validate.js

242 ms

jquery.validate.unobtrusive.min.js

jquery.validate.unobtrusive.min.js

266 ms

custom.js

custom.js

266 ms

vehiclemileage-script.js

vehiclemileage-script.js

303 ms

myscript.js

myscript.js

309 ms

5.1.0

5.1.0

30 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

120 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

146 ms

new-logo.png

new-logo.png

449 ms

home-bg.jpg

home-bg.jpg

467 ms

auto-general_gray_40.png

auto-general_gray_40.png

466 ms

ffw_gray_40.png

ffw_gray_40.png

466 ms

budget_gray_40.png

budget_gray_40.png

466 ms

cake_gray_35.png

cake_gray_35.png

465 ms

dialdirect_gray_40.png

dialdirect_gray_40.png

464 ms

momentum_gray_40.png

momentum_gray_40.png

602 ms

king-price_gray_40.png

king-price_gray_40.png

602 ms

hippo_gray_40.png

hippo_gray_40.png

601 ms

virseker_gray_40.png

virseker_gray_40.png

604 ms

miway_gray_40.png

miway_gray_40.png

613 ms

lara.gif

lara.gif

602 ms

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84 ms

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120 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

148 ms

js

js

146 ms

js

js

145 ms

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138 ms

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139 ms

icomoon.ttf

icomoon.ttf

996 ms

icomoon.ttf

icomoon.ttf

728 ms

hotjar-1077171.js

hotjar-1077171.js

368 ms

fbevents.js

fbevents.js

305 ms

collect

collect

67 ms

collect

collect

21 ms

modules.842bcec28f9fd12bb79e.js

modules.842bcec28f9fd12bb79e.js

20 ms

ga-audiences

ga-audiences

39 ms

icomoon.woff

icomoon.woff

232 ms

icomoon.svg

icomoon.svg

226 ms

Accessibility Review

insurancehound.co.za accessibility score

79

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.

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

insurancehound.co.za best practices score

75

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

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

insurancehound.co.za SEO score

81

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

robots.txt is not valid

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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 Insurancehound.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 Insurancehound.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

insurancehound.co.za

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