Report Summary

  • 7

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    22% of other websites

  • 87

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 66% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 88

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    65% of websites

koshcom.co.za

Want Fast, Reliable Internet? Fibre | Wireless | Internet - Herotel

Page Load Speed

12.1 sec in total

First Response

1.8 sec

Resources Loaded

9.7 sec

Page Rendered

604 ms

koshcom.co.za screenshot

About Website

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

Herotel is the largest fixed wireless internet service provider in South Africa. We connect over 100 000 home and business users to the internet across more than 400 towns and cities.

Visit koshcom.co.za

Key Findings

We analyzed Koshcom.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 1.8 sec and then it took 10.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 90% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

koshcom.co.za performance score

7

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value10.6 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value20.9 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value13.0 s

2/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value4,240 ms

1/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.298

40/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value20.4 s

2/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

koshcom.co.za

1792 ms

css

25 ms

css

38 ms

bootstrap.css

2088 ms

style.css

1358 ms

Our browser made a total of 62 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 73% of them (45 requests) were addressed to the original Koshcom.co.za, 16% (10 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 3% (2 requests) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (4.1 sec) belongs to the original domain Koshcom.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 955.0 kB (51%)

Content Size

1.9 MB

After Optimization

920.3 kB

In fact, the total size of Koshcom.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. 45% of websites need less resources to load. CSS take 736.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 36.7 kB

  • Original 44.6 kB
  • After minification 26.6 kB
  • After compression 7.9 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 18.0 kB, which is 40% 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 36.7 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 10.3 kB

  • Original 685.6 kB
  • After minification 675.3 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. Koshcom images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-67%

Potential reduce by 274.4 kB

  • Original 408.3 kB
  • After minification 383.3 kB
  • After compression 133.9 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 274.4 kB or 67% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 633.6 kB

  • Original 736.9 kB
  • After minification 625.9 kB
  • After compression 103.3 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. Koshcom.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 633.6 kB or 86% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 26 (52%)

Requests Now

50

After Optimization

24

The browser has sent 50 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Koshcom. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 20 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 8 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

koshcom.co.za accessibility score

87

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

[aria-*] attributes do not match their roles

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

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

koshcom.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

koshcom.co.za SEO score

88

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

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

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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