Report Summary

  • 16

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    30% of other websites

  • 85

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 58% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 77

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    36% of websites

labourguide.co.za

Your Guide to Labour Law in South Africa | Labour Guide

Page Load Speed

43.9 sec in total

First Response

6.1 sec

Resources Loaded

37.2 sec

Page Rendered

608 ms

labourguide.co.za screenshot

About Website

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

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Key Findings

We analyzed Labourguide.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 6.1 sec and then it took 37.8 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

labourguide.co.za performance score

16

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.8 s

4/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value26.3 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value31.2 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,410 ms

15/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.146

77/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value41.9 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

labourguide.co.za

6054 ms

frontend.css

1257 ms

extendify-utilities.css

1380 ms

shortcode.css

1411 ms

utility-minimum.css

1283 ms

Our browser made a total of 148 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 79% of them (117 requests) were addressed to the original Labourguide.co.za, 12% (18 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 2% (3 requests) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (16.9 sec) belongs to the original domain Labourguide.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.4 MB (13%)

Content Size

11.2 MB

After Optimization

9.8 MB

In fact, the total size of Labourguide.co.za main page is 11.2 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. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Images take 10.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 256.6 kB

  • Original 293.9 kB
  • After minification 293.9 kB
  • After compression 37.3 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 256.6 kB or 87% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-11%

Potential reduce by 1.2 MB

  • Original 10.4 MB
  • After minification 9.2 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. Obviously, Labour Guide needs image optimization as it can save up to 1.2 MB or 11% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 5.1 kB

  • Original 333.2 kB
  • After minification 333.2 kB
  • After compression 328.1 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 16.1 kB

  • Original 204.1 kB
  • After minification 204.0 kB
  • After compression 188.0 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. Labourguide.co.za has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 98 (78%)

Requests Now

125

After Optimization

27

The browser has sent 125 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Labour Guide. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 53 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 47 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

labourguide.co.za accessibility score

85

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

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

labourguide.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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

labourguide.co.za SEO score

77

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

Crawling and Indexing

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

Impact

Issue

High

Page is blocked from indexing

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