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Report Summary

  • 32

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    52% of other websites

  • 64

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 30% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    84% of websites

patio-life.co.za

Patio Furniture | Outdoor Furniture | Garden Furniture

Page Load Speed

18 sec in total

First Response

3.7 sec

Resources Loaded

14.2 sec

Page Rendered

148 ms

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About Website

Welcome to patio-life.co.za homepage info - get ready to check Patio Life best content for South Africa right away, or after learning these important things about patio-life.co.za

High quality patio furniture solutions that make you happy! Specialising in customised, South African made products.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Patio-life.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 3.7 sec and then it took 14.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 90% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

patio-life.co.za performance score

32

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value11.3 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value11.5 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value31.1 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value190 ms

90/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.332

34/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value24.4 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.patio-life.co.za

3702 ms

reset.css

519 ms

bootstrap.css

1539 ms

style.css

1031 ms

dashicons.min.css

1034 ms

Our browser made a total of 77 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 90% of them (69 requests) were addressed to the original Patio-life.co.za, 4% (3 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 3% (2 requests) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (5.7 sec) belongs to the original domain Patio-life.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.0 MB (27%)

Content Size

3.7 MB

After Optimization

2.7 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Patio-life.co.za main page is 3.7 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. 45% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 2.5 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 62.3 kB

  • Original 72.7 kB
  • After minification 69.1 kB
  • After compression 10.3 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 62.3 kB or 86% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 103.4 kB

  • Original 2.5 MB
  • After minification 2.4 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. Patio Life images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-68%

Potential reduce by 373.3 kB

  • Original 546.9 kB
  • After minification 536.6 kB
  • After compression 173.6 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 373.3 kB or 68% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 478.2 kB

  • Original 585.6 kB
  • After minification 495.0 kB
  • After compression 107.4 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. Patio-life.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 478.2 kB or 82% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 53 (74%)

Requests Now

72

After Optimization

19

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 72 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Patio Life. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 34 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 15 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

www.patio-life.co.za

www.patio-life.co.za

3702 ms

reset.css

reset.css

519 ms

bootstrap.css

bootstrap.css

1539 ms

style.css

style.css

1031 ms

dashicons.min.css

dashicons.min.css

1034 ms

thickbox.css

thickbox.css

519 ms

css

css

24 ms

style.css

style.css

1788 ms

settings.css

settings.css

1286 ms

dynamic-captions.css

dynamic-captions.css

1034 ms

style.css

style.css

1555 ms

style.css

style.css

1312 ms

style.css

style.css

2580 ms

custom.css

custom.css

1811 ms

custom.css

custom.css

1807 ms

jquery.js

jquery.js

2597 ms

jquery-migrate.min.js

jquery-migrate.min.js

1820 ms

jquery.hoverIntent.minified.js

jquery.hoverIntent.minified.js

2058 ms

jquery.cookie.js

jquery.cookie.js

2324 ms

jquery.dcjqaccordion.2.9.js

jquery.dcjqaccordion.2.9.js

2328 ms

jquery.themepunch.plugins.min.js

jquery.themepunch.plugins.min.js

3105 ms

jquery.themepunch.revolution.min.js

jquery.themepunch.revolution.min.js

3339 ms

functions.js

functions.js

2841 ms

css

css

13 ms

thickbox.js

thickbox.js

2594 ms

underscore.min.js

underscore.min.js

2843 ms

shortcode.min.js

shortcode.min.js

2846 ms

media-upload.min.js

media-upload.min.js

3119 ms

jquery.colorbox-min.js

jquery.colorbox-min.js

3119 ms

jquery.easing.js

jquery.easing.js

3357 ms

masonry.min.js

masonry.min.js

3615 ms

jquery.masonry.min.js

jquery.masonry.min.js

3368 ms

jquery.flexslider-min.js

jquery.flexslider-min.js

3857 ms

jquery.custom.js

jquery.custom.js

3878 ms

responsive.js

responsive.js

3625 ms

comment-reply.min.js

comment-reply.min.js

3871 ms

jquery.blockUI.min.js

jquery.blockUI.min.js

3884 ms

woocommerce.min.js

woocommerce.min.js

4127 ms

jquery.cookie.min.js

jquery.cookie.min.js

4136 ms

cart-fragments.min.js

cart-fragments.min.js

4366 ms

responsive.js

responsive.js

4380 ms

hoverIntent.min.js

hoverIntent.min.js

3873 ms

jquery.superfish.js

jquery.superfish.js

3877 ms

jquery.placeholder.js

jquery.placeholder.js

4121 ms

twitter-text.js

twitter-text.js

4137 ms

jquery.tipsy.js

jquery.tipsy.js

3858 ms

jquery.cycle.min.js

jquery.cycle.min.js

4112 ms

shortcodes.js

shortcodes.js

3862 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

wp-emoji-release.min.js

3962 ms

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fb.jpg

517 ms

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2151 ms

Carpet-world-outdoor-carpets.jpg

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4371 ms

Riversdale-SW-2lo-res.jpg

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3612 ms

PP-Standing-LS3.jpg

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3859 ms

GS-Table-Bench-set1.jpg

GS-Table-Bench-set1.jpg

4370 ms

Fairway-four-seat-set.jpg

Fairway-four-seat-set.jpg

4900 ms

Concrete-seats-west-coast-ecru-cushions.jpg

Concrete-seats-west-coast-ecru-cushions.jpg

5660 ms

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523 ms

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521 ms

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11 ms

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10 ms

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analytics.js

analytics.js

27 ms

collect

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11 ms

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timer.png

2743 ms

loader.gif

loader.gif

2742 ms

small_left.png

small_left.png

2757 ms

small_right.png

small_right.png

3004 ms

loadingAnimation.gif

loadingAnimation.gif

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menu-arrow.png

3260 ms

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3275 ms

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3276 ms

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controls.png

3522 ms

Accessibility Review

patio-life.co.za accessibility score

64

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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

patio-life.co.za best practices score

75

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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

patio-life.co.za SEO score

93

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

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

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    N/A

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Patio-life.co.za can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Unfortunately we cannot identify language used on the page (probably there is a mix of languages, too little text or something else), while the claimed language is English. Our system also found out that Patio-life.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

patio-life.co.za

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