Report Summary

  • 79

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    86% of other websites

  • 94

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 84% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 91

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    71% of websites

petsplace.co.za

Home page of dogs  puppies, and  breeders in South Africa

Page Load Speed

1.3 sec in total

First Response

329 ms

Resources Loaded

775 ms

Page Rendered

170 ms

petsplace.co.za screenshot

About Website

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

Find delightful KUSA registered puppies direct from various breeders in South Africa.

Visit petsplace.co.za

Key Findings

We analyzed Petsplace.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 329 ms and then it took 945 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 15% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

petsplace.co.za performance score

79

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.6 s

93/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.2 s

72/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.5 s

88/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value360 ms

72/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.04

99/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value6.1 s

63/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

petsplace.co.za

329 ms

urchin.js

22 ms

addthis_widget.js

17 ms

variousbreedstiny.jpg

110 ms

ga.js

72 ms

Our browser made a total of 32 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 38% of them (12 requests) were addressed to the original Petsplace.co.za, 22% (7 requests) were made to Apis.google.com and 13% (4 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (329 ms) belongs to the original domain Petsplace.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 286.0 kB (54%)

Content Size

526.2 kB

After Optimization

240.1 kB

In fact, the total size of Petsplace.co.za main page is 526.2 kB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 30% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 396.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-70%

Potential reduce by 45.6 kB

  • Original 65.6 kB
  • After minification 64.5 kB
  • After compression 20.0 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 45.6 kB or 70% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 64.3 kB
  • After minification 64.3 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. Petsplace images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-61%

Potential reduce by 240.4 kB

  • Original 396.2 kB
  • After minification 396.2 kB
  • After compression 155.8 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 240.4 kB or 61% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 12 (40%)

Requests Now

30

After Optimization

18

The browser has sent 30 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Petsplace. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 13 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

petsplace.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

petsplace.co.za best practices score

75

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

SEO Factors

petsplace.co.za SEO score

91

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

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    WINDOWS-1252

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Petsplace.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 Petsplace.co.za main page’s claimed encoding is windows-1252. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

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