Access paulaschoice.co.za. Paula's Choice

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.5 s

6/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value10.4 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value12.5 s

3/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value6,320 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.059

98/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value28.3 s

0/100

10%

paulaschoice.co.za

361 ms

css

36 ms

styles.css

58 ms

styles.css

294 ms

iselector.css

60 ms

Our browser made a total of 105 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 12% of them (13 requests) were addressed to the original Paulaschoice.co.za, 22% (23 requests) were made to Cdn4.bigcommerce.com and 18% (19 requests) were made to S.sloyalty.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (398 ms) relates to the external source Sloyalty.com.

Content Size

1.4 MB

After Optimization

714.8 kB

In fact, the total size of Paulaschoice.co.za main page is 1.4 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. Javascripts take 664.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 41.1 kB

Original 50.7 kB
After minification 44.3 kB
After compression 9.7 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 6.5 kB, which is 13% 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 41.1 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-16%

Potential reduce by 80.0 kB

Original 513.1 kB
After minification 433.1 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, Paula S Choice needs image optimization as it can save up to 80.0 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

-63%

Potential reduce by 418.1 kB

Original 664.8 kB
After minification 610.1 kB
After compression 246.7 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 418.1 kB or 63% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 99.6 kB

Original 124.9 kB
After minification 114.8 kB
After compression 25.3 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. Paulaschoice.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 99.6 kB or 80% of the original size.

Requests Now

After Optimization

The browser has sent 97 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Paula S Choice. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 33 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 24 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Issues

These are opportunities to improve the legibility of your content.

High

Background and foreground colors do not have a sufficient contrast ratio.

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

High

[id] attributes on active, focusable elements are not unique

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.

High

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

High

Links do not have a discernible name

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Areas of Improvement

High

Does not use HTTPS

High

Includes front-end JavaScript libraries with known security vulnerabilities

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

High

Serves images with low resolution

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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/).

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 Paulaschoice.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 Paulaschoice.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

paulaschoice.co.za

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Paula S Choice. 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:

Report Summary

Performance

Accessibility

Best Practices

SEO

Paula's Choice

Page Load Speed

First Response

Resources Loaded

Page Rendered

About Website

Key Findings

Performance Metrics

Measured Metrics

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

SI (Speed Index)

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Network Requests Diagram

paulaschoice.co.za

css

styles.css

styles.css

iselector.css

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Content Size

After Optimization

HTML Optimization

Image Optimization

JavaScript Optimization

CSS Optimization

Requests Breakdown

Requests Now

After Optimization

Network Requests Diagram

paulaschoice.co.za

css

styles.css

styles.css

iselector.css

flexslider.css

slide-show.css

styles-slide-show.css

social.css

white.css

theme.css

custom.css

product.attributes.css

ui.all.css

product.quickview.css

imodal.css

store.css

jquery.min.js

menudrop.js

common.js

iselector.js

jquery.autobox.js

init.js

imagesLoaded.js

jquery-ui.min.js

quickview.js

jquery.form.js

imodal.js

quicksearch.js

sloyalty.bigcommerce.js

bigcommerce-storefront.js

jquery.flexslider.js

bc_pinstrumentation.min.js

jquery.bgiframe.min.js

superfish.js

visitor.js

css

analytics.min.js

ga.js

pattern.jpg

ajax-loader.gif

paulas_choice_skincare_black_1407077510__80275.png

Search.gif