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Report Summary

  • 34

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    54% of other websites

  • 60

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 26% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    20% of websites

  • 67

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    26% of websites

pricenet.co.za

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Page Load Speed

5.9 sec in total

First Response

1.5 sec

Resources Loaded

4.3 sec

Page Rendered

140 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Pricenet.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 1.5 sec and then it took 4.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 70% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

pricenet.co.za performance score

34

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value7.4 s

1/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.2 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value13.0 s

2/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value580 ms

51/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.002

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value9.4 s

30/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

pricenet.co.za

1473 ms

stylesheet.css

1343 ms

jquery.min.js

1772 ms

cufon-yui.js

1070 ms

Caecilia_LT_Std_700.font.js

1072 ms

Our browser made a total of 41 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 88% of them (36 requests) were addressed to the original Pricenet.co.za, 5% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 2% (1 request) were made to Googleadservices.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.9 sec) belongs to the original domain Pricenet.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 493.9 kB (65%)

Content Size

756.1 kB

After Optimization

262.2 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Pricenet.co.za main page is 756.1 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. 25% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 515.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 62.6 kB

  • Original 72.0 kB
  • After minification 64.5 kB
  • After compression 9.5 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 62.6 kB or 87% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-26%

Potential reduce by 31.2 kB

  • Original 118.4 kB
  • After minification 87.2 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. Obviously, Pricenet needs image optimization as it can save up to 31.2 kB or 26% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-69%

Potential reduce by 355.8 kB

  • Original 515.3 kB
  • After minification 498.9 kB
  • After compression 159.5 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 355.8 kB or 69% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-88%

Potential reduce by 44.3 kB

  • Original 50.3 kB
  • After minification 37.4 kB
  • After compression 6.1 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. Pricenet.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 44.3 kB or 88% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 16 (41%)

Requests Now

39

After Optimization

23

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 39 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Pricenet. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 10 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

pricenet.co.za

pricenet.co.za

1473 ms

stylesheet.css

stylesheet.css

1343 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

1772 ms

cufon-yui.js

cufon-yui.js

1070 ms

Caecilia_LT_Std_700.font.js

Caecilia_LT_Std_700.font.js

1072 ms

Caecilia_LT_Std_300.font.js

Caecilia_LT_Std_300.font.js

1078 ms

menu.css

menu.css

939 ms

stscode.js

stscode.js

1873 ms

WebResource.axd

WebResource.axd

1086 ms

ScriptResource.axd

ScriptResource.axd

1080 ms

ScriptResource.axd

ScriptResource.axd

854 ms

conversion.js

conversion.js

18 ms

ga.js

ga.js

24 ms

logo.png

logo.png

249 ms

f1.png

f1.png

240 ms

f2.png

f2.png

250 ms

Bulelwa_1%20BW.png

Bulelwa_1%20BW.png

254 ms

Ronnie_2.png

Ronnie_2.png

250 ms

Janine_1%20-%20Copy%20copy.png

Janine_1%20-%20Copy%20copy.png

247 ms

Lenore_1BW.png

Lenore_1BW.png

529 ms

bg_1.png

bg_1.png

502 ms

bg_2.png

bg_2.png

505 ms

bg_3.png

bg_3.png

502 ms

bg_4.png

bg_4.png

506 ms

bg_5.png

bg_5.png

503 ms

bg_6.png

bg_6.png

734 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

96 ms

ar2-1.png

ar2-1.png

695 ms

ar3.png

ar3.png

695 ms

ar4.png

ar4.png

696 ms

ar5.png

ar5.png

702 ms

ar6.png

ar6.png

701 ms

ar7.png

ar7.png

925 ms

ar8.png

ar8.png

933 ms

ar9.png

ar9.png

1555 ms

ar10.png

ar10.png

934 ms

arp1.png

arp1.png

933 ms

arp2.png

arp2.png

938 ms

ar.png

ar.png

1158 ms

100 ms

36 ms

Accessibility Review

pricenet.co.za accessibility score

60

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

pricenet.co.za best practices score

58

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

SEO Factors

pricenet.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

    UTF-8

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

pricenet.co.za

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