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Report Summary

  • 31

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    51% of other websites

  • 73

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 38% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 82

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    44% of websites

livingstones.co.za

Shop Specialised Garden & Home Equipment Online

Page Load Speed

23.1 sec in total

First Response

5.2 sec

Resources Loaded

17 sec

Page Rendered

902 ms

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About Website

Visit livingstones.co.za now to see the best up-to-date Livingstones content for South Africa and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about livingstones.co.za

Discover premium garden and home equipment at Livingstones. Enjoy personalised service and reliable delivery across South Africa for all your outdoor needs.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Livingstones.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 5.2 sec and then it took 17.9 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

livingstones.co.za performance score

31

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value9.8 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value13.3 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value22.4 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value490 ms

59/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.144

78/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value13.2 s

12/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

livingstones.co.za

5204 ms

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966 ms

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969 ms

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972 ms

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975 ms

Our browser made a total of 139 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 75% of them (104 requests) were addressed to the original Livingstones.co.za, 17% (23 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 7% (10 requests) were made to Lh3.googleusercontent.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (5.2 sec) belongs to the original domain Livingstones.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 2.5 MB (16%)

Content Size

15.6 MB

After Optimization

13.1 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Livingstones.co.za main page is 15.6 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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 14.9 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 321.0 kB

  • Original 370.7 kB
  • After minification 366.0 kB
  • After compression 49.7 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 321.0 kB or 87% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-15%

Potential reduce by 2.2 MB

  • Original 14.9 MB
  • After minification 12.7 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, Livingstones needs image optimization as it can save up to 2.2 MB or 15% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 3.5 kB

  • Original 249.6 kB
  • After minification 249.6 kB
  • After compression 246.0 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

-1%

Potential reduce by 432 B

  • Original 63.1 kB
  • After minification 63.1 kB
  • After compression 62.6 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. Livingstones.co.za has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 49 (44%)

Requests Now

112

After Optimization

63

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 112 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Livingstones. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 32 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 19 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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Accessibility Review

livingstones.co.za accessibility score

73

Accessibility Issues

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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.

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

livingstones.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

livingstones.co.za SEO score

82

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 doesn't use 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 Livingstones.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 Livingstones.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

livingstones.co.za

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Livingstones. Lack of Open Graph description can be counter-productive for their social media presence, as such a description allows converting a website homepage (or other pages) into good-looking, rich and well-structured posts, when it is being shared on Facebook and other social media. For example, adding the following code snippet into HTML <head> tag will help to represent this web page correctly in social networks: