Report Summary

  • 75

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    84% of other websites

  • 94

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 84% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 85

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    56% of websites

potchefstroom.olx.co.za

OLX South Africa is no longer available

Page Load Speed

49.2 sec in total

First Response

593 ms

Resources Loaded

29.6 sec

Page Rendered

19 sec

potchefstroom.olx.co.za screenshot

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Key Findings

We analyzed Potchefstroom.olx.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 593 ms and then it took 48.6 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

potchefstroom.olx.co.za performance score

75

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.0 s

24/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.0 s

51/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.1 s

61/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.042

99/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value4.0 s

88/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.olx.co.za

593 ms

styles.acfbd8b7730490c88cdcf455db8b62e1.css

124 ms

manifest.8b00ddd94857f5c2a61a.js

4000 ms

vendor.f2b1cc6decf494ced577.js

4380 ms

app.8934bf78e25742f3de37.js

8791 ms

Our browser made a total of 29 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Potchefstroom.olx.co.za, 31% (9 requests) were made to Olx.co.za. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (13.5 sec) relates to the external source Apollo-ireland.akamaized.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 874.2 kB (60%)

Content Size

1.5 MB

After Optimization

593.1 kB

In fact, the total size of Potchefstroom.olx.co.za main page is 1.5 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. 50% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 577.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 132.2 kB

  • Original 163.3 kB
  • After minification 162.6 kB
  • After compression 31.1 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 132.2 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-16%

Potential reduce by 59.4 kB

  • Original 378.4 kB
  • After minification 319.0 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. Obviously, Potchefstroom OLX needs image optimization as it can save up to 59.4 kB or 16% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-68%

Potential reduce by 395.5 kB

  • Original 577.5 kB
  • After minification 577.5 kB
  • After compression 182.1 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 395.5 kB or 68% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 287.1 kB

  • Original 348.0 kB
  • After minification 318.6 kB
  • After compression 60.8 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. Potchefstroom.olx.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 287.1 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 22 (88%)

Requests Now

25

After Optimization

3

The browser has sent 25 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Potchefstroom OLX. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 4 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

potchefstroom.olx.co.za accessibility score

94

Accessibility Issues

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

Best Practices

potchefstroom.olx.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

SEO Factors

potchefstroom.olx.co.za SEO score

85

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

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

Impact

Issue

High

robots.txt is not valid

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

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Potchefstroom.olx.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 Potchefstroom.olx.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 Potchefstroom OLX. 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: