Report Summary

  • 92

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    92% of other websites

  • 96

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 89% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    84% of websites

itworx.co.za

Home - ITWorx

Page Load Speed

4.5 sec in total

First Response

1.3 sec

Resources Loaded

2.8 sec

Page Rendered

410 ms

itworx.co.za screenshot

About Website

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ITWorx offers IT hardware, software, and web hosting solutions. ITWorx was established in 2001.We sell leading IT technology brands; and offer web solutions to our clients in South Africa.ITWorx web s...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Itworx.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 1.3 sec and then it took 3.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 55% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

itworx.co.za performance score

92

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.7 s

92/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value1.7 s

99/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.7 s

51/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value180 ms

92/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value1.9 s

100/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

itworx.co.za

1321 ms

style.css

250 ms

juiz-odpm-styles.css

472 ms

comment-reply.min.js

538 ms

wp-embed.min.js

539 ms

Our browser made a total of 31 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 87% of them (27 requests) were addressed to the original Itworx.co.za, 6% (2 requests) were made to Staticxx.facebook.com and 3% (1 request) were made to Connect.facebook.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.3 sec) belongs to the original domain Itworx.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 203.5 kB (46%)

Content Size

438.3 kB

After Optimization

234.8 kB

In fact, the total size of Itworx.co.za main page is 438.3 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. 25% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 175.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 49.2 kB

  • Original 63.7 kB
  • After minification 62.5 kB
  • After compression 14.5 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. HTML code on this page is well minified. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 49.2 kB or 77% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 9.3 kB

  • Original 175.5 kB
  • After minification 166.1 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. ITWorx images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-67%

Potential reduce by 94.5 kB

  • Original 140.1 kB
  • After minification 139.9 kB
  • After compression 45.5 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 94.5 kB or 67% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 50.5 kB

  • Original 59.1 kB
  • After minification 41.8 kB
  • After compression 8.6 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. Itworx.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 50.5 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 6 (20%)

Requests Now

30

After Optimization

24

The browser has sent 30 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of ITWorx. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 7 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

itworx.co.za accessibility score

96

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Best Practices

itworx.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

SEO Factors

itworx.co.za SEO score

93

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 Itworx.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 Itworx.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 ITWorx. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: