Report Summary

  • 29

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    49% of other websites

  • 84

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 57% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 91

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    71% of websites

karoospace.co.za

Karoo Space - Home Page

Page Load Speed

7 sec in total

First Response

1.4 sec

Resources Loaded

5.1 sec

Page Rendered

447 ms

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About Website

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

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Key Findings

We analyzed Karoospace.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 1.4 sec and then it took 5.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 75% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

karoospace.co.za performance score

29

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.3 s

7/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value11.4 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value12.2 s

3/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value720 ms

41/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.002

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value17.2 s

4/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

karoospace.co.za

1412 ms

widget.css

217 ms

woocommerce.css

437 ms

mappress.css

433 ms

mtsw.css

440 ms

Our browser made a total of 89 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 64% of them (57 requests) were addressed to the original Karoospace.co.za, 11% (10 requests) were made to Static.xx.fbcdn.net and 9% (8 requests) were made to Scontent.xx.fbcdn.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.2 sec) belongs to the original domain Karoospace.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 459.7 kB (24%)

Content Size

1.9 MB

After Optimization

1.5 MB

In fact, the total size of Karoospace.co.za main page is 1.9 MB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 50% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 46.8 kB

  • Original 59.2 kB
  • After minification 57.1 kB
  • After compression 12.4 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. 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 46.8 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 25.8 kB

  • Original 1.4 MB
  • After minification 1.3 MB

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. Karoo Space images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-64%

Potential reduce by 173.2 kB

  • Original 268.6 kB
  • After minification 247.8 kB
  • After compression 95.4 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 173.2 kB or 64% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 213.9 kB

  • Original 253.8 kB
  • After minification 201.3 kB
  • After compression 39.9 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. Karoospace.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 213.9 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 43 (51%)

Requests Now

85

After Optimization

42

The browser has sent 85 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Karoo Space. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 25 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 20 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

karoospace.co.za accessibility score

84

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

High

Some elements have a [tabindex] value greater than 0

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

karoospace.co.za best practices score

75

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

karoospace.co.za SEO score

91

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

Links do not have descriptive text

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

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Karoospace.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 Karoospace.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 Karoo Space. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: