Report Summary

  • 13

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    25% of other websites

  • 88

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 68% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 98

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    92% of websites

psaafrica.co.za

Specialised Safety Equipment, Suppliers | PSA Africa

Page Load Speed

8.6 sec in total

First Response

543 ms

Resources Loaded

2.2 sec

Page Rendered

5.9 sec

psaafrica.co.za screenshot

About Website

Click here to check amazing PSA Africa content. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about psaafrica.co.za

PSA Africa supplies precision gas detection, respiratory protective equipment, breathalysers and safety equipment. Authorised supplier of MSA.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Psaafrica.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 543 ms and then it took 8.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 85% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

psaafrica.co.za performance score

13

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.6 s

33/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value16.1 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value11.6 s

4/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,150 ms

2/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.214

58/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value25.4 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

psaafrica.co.za

543 ms

psaafrica.co.za

60 ms

premium-addons.min.css

40 ms

bbpress.min.css

33 ms

style.css

32 ms

Our browser made a total of 172 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 75% of them (129 requests) were addressed to the original Psaafrica.co.za, 16% (27 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 2% (4 requests) were made to Cdn.amcharts.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (965 ms) belongs to the original domain Psaafrica.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 616.3 kB (13%)

Content Size

4.7 MB

After Optimization

4.1 MB

In fact, the total size of Psaafrica.co.za main page is 4.7 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. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Images take 4.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 235.1 kB

  • Original 275.9 kB
  • After minification 269.7 kB
  • After compression 40.8 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 235.1 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-9%

Potential reduce by 372.8 kB

  • Original 4.1 MB
  • After minification 3.7 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. PSA Africa images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 8.4 kB

  • Original 369.6 kB
  • After minification 369.6 kB
  • After compression 361.2 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 113 (83%)

Requests Now

136

After Optimization

23

The browser has sent 136 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of PSA Africa. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 56 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 59 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

psaafrica.co.za accessibility score

88

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

[aria-*] attributes do not match their roles

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

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

psaafrica.co.za best practices score

83

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

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

psaafrica.co.za SEO score

98

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

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

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 Psaafrica.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 Psaafrica.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 data is detected on the main page of PSA Africa. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: