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Report Summary

  • 68

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    80% of other websites

  • 63

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 28% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 67

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    26% of websites

internationalgroup.co.za

Packaging Company | Packaging Suppliers | The International Group of Companies

Page Load Speed

3.3 sec in total

First Response

805 ms

Resources Loaded

2.3 sec

Page Rendered

216 ms

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About Website

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

The packaging company International Group of Companies offer a wide range of packaging products ranging from shade cloth, plastic bags, twines, styrofoam packaging, moulded plastic etc.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Internationalgroup.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 805 ms and then it took 2.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

internationalgroup.co.za performance score

68

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.9 s

54/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.2 s

5/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.4 s

74/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value40 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.042

99/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value3.9 s

89/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

internationalgroup.co.za

805 ms

main.css

216 ms

css

21 ms

jquery.min.js

21 ms

jquery.kwicks-1.5.1.pack.js

428 ms

Our browser made a total of 27 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 70% of them (19 requests) were addressed to the original Internationalgroup.co.za, 7% (2 requests) were made to Apis.google.com and 7% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (859 ms) belongs to the original domain Internationalgroup.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 68.3 kB (12%)

Content Size

558.4 kB

After Optimization

490.1 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Internationalgroup.co.za main page is 558.4 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. 35% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 356.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-67%

Potential reduce by 4.8 kB

  • Original 7.1 kB
  • After minification 6.3 kB
  • After compression 2.4 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 794 B, 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 4.8 kB or 67% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 1.5 kB

  • Original 356.1 kB
  • After minification 354.6 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. International Group images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-25%

Potential reduce by 42.1 kB

  • Original 169.1 kB
  • After minification 168.8 kB
  • After compression 127.0 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 42.1 kB or 25% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 20.0 kB

  • Original 26.2 kB
  • After minification 22.1 kB
  • After compression 6.2 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. Internationalgroup.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 20.0 kB or 76% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 9 (38%)

Requests Now

24

After Optimization

15

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 24 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of International Group. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 5 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

internationalgroup.co.za

internationalgroup.co.za

805 ms

main.css

main.css

216 ms

css

css

21 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

21 ms

jquery.kwicks-1.5.1.pack.js

jquery.kwicks-1.5.1.pack.js

428 ms

accordion-slider.css

accordion-slider.css

427 ms

plusone.js

plusone.js

29 ms

reset.css

reset.css

216 ms

layout.css

layout.css

427 ms

global-styles.css

global-styles.css

426 ms

cb=gapi.loaded_0

cb=gapi.loaded_0

46 ms

home-bg-green-center.jpg

home-bg-green-center.jpg

859 ms

div.png

div.png

216 ms

logos.png

logos.png

430 ms

mainbanner-shadow.png

mainbanner-shadow.png

218 ms

image1.jpg

image1.jpg

640 ms

btn-read-more.png

btn-read-more.png

433 ms

image2.jpg

image2.jpg

642 ms

image3.jpg

image3.jpg

653 ms

image4.jpg

image4.jpg

646 ms

fb.png

fb.png

645 ms

home-bg-green-right.png

home-bg-green-right.png

854 ms

home-bg-green-left.png

home-bg-green-left.png

856 ms

ga.js

ga.js

30 ms

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4iCs6KVjbNBYlgoKfw7z.ttf

25 ms

4iCv6KVjbNBYlgoCjC3jsGyI.ttf

4iCv6KVjbNBYlgoCjC3jsGyI.ttf

25 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

13 ms

Accessibility Review

internationalgroup.co.za accessibility score

63

Accessibility Issues

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

internationalgroup.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

SEO Factors

internationalgroup.co.za SEO score

67

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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 Internationalgroup.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 Internationalgroup.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

internationalgroup.co.za

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