Report Summary

  • 99

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    96% of other websites

  • 38

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 18% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 67

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    25% of websites

ports.co.za

Ports and Ships - Port news and Shipping Movements in African and Southern African Ports and Harbours

Page Load Speed

2.8 sec in total

First Response

371 ms

Resources Loaded

1.4 sec

Page Rendered

1.1 sec

ports.co.za screenshot

About Website

Visit ports.co.za now to see the best up-to-date Ports content for South Africa and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about ports.co.za

Ports and Ships offer news and reporting from the harbours of Southern and South Africa including shipping movements and port developments

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Key Findings

We analyzed Ports.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 371 ms and then it took 2.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 45% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

ports.co.za performance score

99

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value0.9 s

100/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value1.0 s

100/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value1.6 s

100/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value10 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.084

93/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value1.0 s

100/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

ports.co.za

371 ms

ports.css

91 ms

cipher_02.gif

436 ms

world_odyssey_ex_deutschland_2016_march_15_480.jpg

33 ms

supertanker_470.jpg

35 ms

Our browser made a total of 41 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 44% of them (18 requests) were addressed to the original Ports.co.za, 7% (3 requests) were made to S.ytimg.com and 5% (2 requests) were made to S7.postimg.org. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1 sec) belongs to the original domain Ports.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 412.9 kB (46%)

Content Size

897.5 kB

After Optimization

484.6 kB

In fact, the total size of Ports.co.za main page is 897.5 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. 55% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 399.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 36.6 kB

  • Original 48.7 kB
  • After minification 46.2 kB
  • After compression 12.1 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. 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 36.6 kB or 75% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-10%

Potential reduce by 39.2 kB

  • Original 399.1 kB
  • After minification 359.9 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. Ports images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-65%

Potential reduce by 134.3 kB

  • Original 205.3 kB
  • After minification 205.2 kB
  • After compression 70.9 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 134.3 kB or 65% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 202.8 kB

  • Original 244.4 kB
  • After minification 244.2 kB
  • After compression 41.6 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. Ports.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 202.8 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 8 (21%)

Requests Now

38

After Optimization

30

The browser has sent 38 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Ports. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 4 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

ports.co.za accessibility score

38

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

ports.co.za 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

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

ports.co.za SEO score

67

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 Ports.co.za 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 Ports.co.za 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

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