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Report Summary

  • 25

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    44% of other websites

  • 90

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 74% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 87

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    65% of websites

midas.co.za

Midas | Car Parts, Accessories & Auto Services

Page Load Speed

18.4 sec in total

First Response

1 sec

Resources Loaded

17.2 sec

Page Rendered

224 ms

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About Website

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

Midas is your trusted source for top-quality car parts, accessories, and auto services in South Africa. Visit a branch near you.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Midas.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 1 sec and then it took 17.4 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

midas.co.za performance score

25

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.0 s

24/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value18.4 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value14.4 s

1/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,120 ms

23/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.001

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value22.6 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

midas.co.za

1018 ms

calendar.css

59 ms

styles-m.css

40 ms

cookienotice.css

32 ms

paygate_checkout.css

39 ms

Our browser made a total of 146 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 92% of them (135 requests) were addressed to the original Midas.co.za, 3% (4 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 2% (3 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (4.5 sec) belongs to the original domain Midas.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 292.3 kB (11%)

Content Size

2.8 MB

After Optimization

2.5 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Midas.co.za main page is 2.8 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. 75% 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 2.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 148.5 kB

  • Original 170.7 kB
  • After minification 165.8 kB
  • After compression 22.2 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 148.5 kB or 87% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 20.0 kB

  • Original 2.0 MB
  • After minification 2.0 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. Midas images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-26%

Potential reduce by 119.9 kB

  • Original 464.7 kB
  • After minification 460.6 kB
  • After compression 344.7 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 119.9 kB or 26% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 3.8 kB

  • Original 111.0 kB
  • After minification 111.0 kB
  • After compression 107.2 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. Midas.co.za has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 121 (91%)

Requests Now

133

After Optimization

12

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 133 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Midas. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 113 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 10 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

midas.co.za

midas.co.za

1018 ms

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calendar.css

59 ms

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styles-m.css

40 ms

cookienotice.css

cookienotice.css

32 ms

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39 ms

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35 ms

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56 ms

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57 ms

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75 ms

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80 ms

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79 ms

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main.js

96 ms

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121 ms

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99 ms

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697 ms

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693 ms

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697 ms

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67 ms

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65 ms

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688 ms

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835 ms

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1371 ms

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1351 ms

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2257 ms

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2807 ms

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64 ms

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38 ms

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1456 ms

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1461 ms

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1492 ms

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2694 ms

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3919 ms

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4144 ms

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3701 ms

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77 ms

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template.js

3191 ms

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3483 ms

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widget.js

3931 ms

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4190 ms

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bootstrap.js

4196 ms

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types.js

4171 ms

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layout.js

4301 ms

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4156 ms

smart-keyboard-handler.js

smart-keyboard-handler.js

4196 ms

mage.js

mage.js

4193 ms

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ie-class-fixer.js

4516 ms

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text.js

4186 ms

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cookies.js

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3135 ms

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underscore.js

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translate.js

2090 ms

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modal.js

2131 ms

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version.js

1967 ms

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main.js

1710 ms

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knockout.js

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engine.js

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2400 ms

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2497 ms

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2228 ms

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2845 ms

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2074 ms

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mage-init.js

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keyboard.js

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datepicker.js

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Accessibility Review

midas.co.za accessibility score

90

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.

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 IDs are not unique

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

midas.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

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

midas.co.za SEO score

87

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 Midas.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 Midas.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

midas.co.za

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Midas. 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: