Report Summary

  • 15

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    27% of other websites

  • 61

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 27% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 80

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    42% of websites

networkassociates.co.za

Network Associates. Supporting your business with Sage Pastel Accounting, Payroll and Evolution software

Page Load Speed

9.1 sec in total

First Response

1.2 sec

Resources Loaded

7.6 sec

Page Rendered

294 ms

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About Website

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Provision of quality IT solutions to the Small & Medium Business & Corporate Market in the Eastern Cape & Garden Route.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Networkassociates.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 1.2 sec and then it took 7.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 85% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

networkassociates.co.za performance score

15

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value8.1 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value16.8 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value19.5 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value8,010 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.001

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value23.5 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

networkassociates.co.za

1205 ms

general.css

1332 ms

attention_box.css

537 ms

jquery-1.3.2.min.js

2142 ms

script.js

539 ms

Our browser made a total of 54 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 63% of them (34 requests) were addressed to the original Networkassociates.co.za, 9% (5 requests) were made to Cdn.cnetcontent.com and 9% (5 requests) were made to Ws.cnetcontent.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (4.7 sec) belongs to the original domain Networkassociates.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 321.4 kB (26%)

Content Size

1.2 MB

After Optimization

913.8 kB

In fact, the total size of Networkassociates.co.za main page is 1.2 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. 55% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 829.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 27.5 kB

  • Original 35.3 kB
  • After minification 31.5 kB
  • After compression 7.8 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 3.8 kB, which is 11% 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 27.5 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 14.6 kB

  • Original 829.3 kB
  • After minification 814.7 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. Network Associates images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-74%

Potential reduce by 236.3 kB

  • Original 318.7 kB
  • After minification 253.8 kB
  • After compression 82.3 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 236.3 kB or 74% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 42.9 kB

  • Original 51.9 kB
  • After minification 38.1 kB
  • After compression 9.0 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. Networkassociates.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 42.9 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 23 (44%)

Requests Now

52

After Optimization

29

The browser has sent 52 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Network Associates. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 15 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

networkassociates.co.za accessibility score

61

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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.

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

networkassociates.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

networkassociates.co.za SEO score

80

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

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

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Networkassociates.co.za can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Networkassociates.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 description is not detected on the main page of Network Associates. 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: