Report Summary

  • 55

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    72% of other websites

  • 79

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 48% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    84% of websites

pixelcandy.co.za

Pixel Candy Development Studio | Potchefstroom

Page Load Speed

14.3 sec in total

First Response

3.4 sec

Resources Loaded

10.3 sec

Page Rendered

514 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Pixelcandy.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 3.4 sec and then it took 10.9 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

pixelcandy.co.za performance score

55

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.4 s

16/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.4 s

39/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.8 s

10/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value90 ms

99/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.342

33/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value5.0 s

77/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.pixelcandy.co.za

3416 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

522 ms

layerslider.css

539 ms

css

21 ms

styles.css

546 ms

Our browser made a total of 108 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 66% of them (71 requests) were addressed to the original Pixelcandy.co.za, 15% (16 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 7% (8 requests) were made to Scontent-iad3-1.xx.fbcdn.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (3.4 sec) belongs to the original domain Pixelcandy.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 3.0 MB (60%)

Content Size

5.1 MB

After Optimization

2.0 MB

In fact, the total size of Pixelcandy.co.za main page is 5.1 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. CSS take 2.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 60.8 kB

  • Original 72.7 kB
  • After minification 70.1 kB
  • After compression 11.9 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 60.8 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 48.9 kB

  • Original 1.4 MB
  • After minification 1.4 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. Pixel Candy images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-73%

Potential reduce by 1.2 MB

  • Original 1.6 MB
  • After minification 1.5 MB
  • After compression 423.6 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 1.2 MB or 73% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-89%

Potential reduce by 1.8 MB

  • Original 2.0 MB
  • After minification 1.9 MB
  • After compression 216.5 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. Pixelcandy.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 1.8 MB or 89% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 52 (59%)

Requests Now

88

After Optimization

36

The browser has sent 88 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Pixel Candy. 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 21 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

pixelcandy.co.za accessibility score

79

Accessibility Issues

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

pixelcandy.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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

pixelcandy.co.za SEO score

93

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Pixelcandy.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 Pixelcandy.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 Pixel Candy. 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: