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Report Summary

  • 100

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    97% of other websites

  • 54

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 23% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 69

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    28% of websites

plantzafrica.com

PlantZAfrica.com Homepage

Page Load Speed

2.2 sec in total

First Response

779 ms

Resources Loaded

1.3 sec

Page Rendered

168 ms

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About Website

Welcome to plantzafrica.com homepage info - get ready to check PlantZ Africa best content for South Africa right away, or after learning these important things about plantzafrica.com

All about plants indigenous to southern Africa and related topics presented by the National Botanical Institute,SA.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Plantzafrica.com page load time and found that the first response time was 779 ms and then it took 1.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 30% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

plantzafrica.com performance score

100

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.4 s

96/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value1.4 s

100/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value1.7 s

100/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value1.4 s

100/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

plantzafrica.com

779 ms

plantzafricalogo.jpg

504 ms

facebooklogo.jpg

506 ms

twitterlogo.jpg

507 ms

LOGO%20Black%20and%20White_cropped_sm_sca.jpg

509 ms

Our browser made a total of 5 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that all of those requests were addressed to Plantzafrica.com and no external sources were called. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (779 ms) belongs to the original domain Plantzafrica.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 11.9 kB (36%)

Content Size

32.8 kB

After Optimization

20.9 kB

  • HTML
  • Images

In fact, the total size of Plantzafrica.com main page is 32.8 kB. This result falls within a vast category (top 1 000 000) of heavyweight, probably not optimized, and thus slow loading web pages. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Images take 20.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 10.4 kB

  • Original 12.5 kB
  • After minification 8.7 kB
  • After compression 2.1 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 3.8 kB, which is 30% 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 10.4 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 1.5 kB

  • Original 20.3 kB
  • After minification 18.8 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. PlantZ Africa images are well optimized though.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

4

After Optimization

4

  • Images

The browser has sent 4 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of PlantZ Africa. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Network Requests Diagram

plantzafrica.com

plantzafrica.com

779 ms

plantzafricalogo.jpg

plantzafricalogo.jpg

504 ms

facebooklogo.jpg

facebooklogo.jpg

506 ms

twitterlogo.jpg

twitterlogo.jpg

507 ms

LOGO%20Black%20and%20White_cropped_sm_sca.jpg

LOGO%20Black%20and%20White_cropped_sm_sca.jpg

509 ms

Accessibility Review

plantzafrica.com accessibility score

54

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.

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

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

plantzafrica.com best practices score

67

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

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

High

Serves images with low resolution

SEO Factors

plantzafrica.com SEO score

69

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

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Plantzafrica.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Plantzafrica.com main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. 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

plantzafrica.com

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