Report Summary

  • 12

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    25% of other websites

  • 71

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 37% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 85

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    56% of websites

prepaid24.co.za

Home | Prepaid24

Page Load Speed

35.4 sec in total

First Response

2.1 sec

Resources Loaded

32.7 sec

Page Rendered

596 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Prepaid24.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 2.1 sec and then it took 33.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 95% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

prepaid24.co.za performance score

12

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.5 s

6/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value16.8 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value17.0 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,520 ms

4/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.184

66/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value26.7 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

prepaid24.co.za

2108 ms

prepaid24.co.za

1283 ms

www.prepaid24.co.za

2014 ms

www.prepaid24.co.za

4889 ms

base.css

1244 ms

Our browser made a total of 147 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 71% of them (105 requests) were addressed to the original Prepaid24.co.za, 5% (8 requests) were made to Apis.google.com and 3% (5 requests) were made to Livechat.pp24seven.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (10.8 sec) belongs to the original domain Prepaid24.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.2 MB (68%)

Content Size

1.8 MB

After Optimization

597.5 kB

In fact, the total size of Prepaid24.co.za main page is 1.8 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. Javascripts take 1.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 93.8 kB

  • Original 113.6 kB
  • After minification 94.5 kB
  • After compression 19.7 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 19.1 kB, which is 17% 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 93.8 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 1.8 kB

  • Original 132.6 kB
  • After minification 130.8 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. Prepaid24 images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-70%

Potential reduce by 926.6 kB

  • Original 1.3 MB
  • After minification 1.2 MB
  • After compression 406.3 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 926.6 kB or 70% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 221.6 kB

  • Original 262.3 kB
  • After minification 205.8 kB
  • After compression 40.7 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. Prepaid24.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 221.6 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 81 (59%)

Requests Now

137

After Optimization

56

The browser has sent 137 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Prepaid24. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 58 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 18 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

prepaid24.co.za accessibility score

71

Accessibility Issues

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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

Best Practices

prepaid24.co.za best practices score

67

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

High

Includes front-end JavaScript libraries with known security vulnerabilities

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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

prepaid24.co.za SEO score

85

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Prepaid24.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 Prepaid24.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 Prepaid24. 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: