Report Summary

  • 17

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    32% of other websites

  • 78

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 46% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

kyknet.co.za

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Page Load Speed

31.1 sec in total

First Response

853 ms

Resources Loaded

29.7 sec

Page Rendered

486 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Kyknet.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 853 ms and then it took 30.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is an excellent result, as only a small number of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

kyknet.co.za performance score

17

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.4 s

37/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value13.0 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value12.7 s

3/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value4,900 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.112

86/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value22.1 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

kyknet.co.za

853 ms

kyknet.dstv.com

4481 ms

style.css

803 ms

style-events.css

518 ms

widget.css

520 ms

Our browser made a total of 150 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Kyknet.co.za, 48% (72 requests) were made to Kyknet.dstv.com and 11% (17 requests) were made to Cdn.dstv.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (16.1 sec) relates to the external source Connect.dstv.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.9 MB (31%)

Content Size

6.2 MB

After Optimization

4.3 MB

In fact, the total size of Kyknet.co.za main page is 6.2 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. 80% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Images take 3.7 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 195.8 kB

  • Original 253.2 kB
  • After minification 242.9 kB
  • After compression 57.4 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 195.8 kB or 77% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 175.4 kB

  • Original 3.7 MB
  • After minification 3.6 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. KykNET images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-69%

Potential reduce by 1.4 MB

  • Original 2.0 MB
  • After minification 2.0 MB
  • After compression 634.1 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 1.4 MB or 69% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 156.5 kB

  • Original 191.7 kB
  • After minification 175.0 kB
  • After compression 35.2 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. Kyknet.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 156.5 kB or 82% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 83 (63%)

Requests Now

131

After Optimization

48

The browser has sent 131 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of KykNET. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 59 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 15 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

kyknet.co.za accessibility score

78

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.

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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

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

kyknet.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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

kyknet.co.za SEO score

86

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

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

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    AF

  • Language Claimed

    AF

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Kyknet.co.za can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that Afrikaans is used on the page, and it matches the claimed language. Our system also found out that Kyknet.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 KykNET. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: