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Report Summary

  • 8

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    22% of other websites

  • 80

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 50% of websites

  • 0

    Best Practices

  • 77

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    36% of websites

quicktrade.co.za

QuickTrade (Pty) Ltd - Start Trading Today

Page Load Speed

3.4 sec in total

First Response

582 ms

Resources Loaded

2.2 sec

Page Rendered

679 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Quicktrade.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 582 ms and then it took 2.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

quicktrade.co.za performance score

8

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value12.7 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value29.4 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value13.7 s

1/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value6,980 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.234

53/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value33.8 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

quicktrade.co.za

582 ms

bootstrap.min.css

49 ms

bootstrap-theme.min.css

47 ms

font-awesome.min.css

31 ms

css.css

548 ms

Our browser made a total of 19 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 42% of them (8 requests) were addressed to the original Quicktrade.co.za, 32% (6 requests) were made to Maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com and 11% (2 requests) were made to S.ytimg.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.6 sec) belongs to the original domain Quicktrade.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 651.2 kB (67%)

Content Size

971.5 kB

After Optimization

320.3 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Quicktrade.co.za main page is 971.5 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. 40% of websites need less resources to load. CSS take 422.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 38.6 kB

  • Original 46.2 kB
  • After minification 34.7 kB
  • After compression 7.5 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 11.5 kB, which is 25% 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 38.6 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-13%

Potential reduce by 18.0 kB

  • Original 135.7 kB
  • After minification 117.6 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, Quick Trade needs image optimization as it can save up to 18.0 kB or 13% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-66%

Potential reduce by 242.6 kB

  • Original 367.1 kB
  • After minification 365.7 kB
  • After compression 124.5 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 242.6 kB or 66% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 352.0 kB

  • Original 422.6 kB
  • After minification 419.5 kB
  • After compression 70.6 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. Quicktrade.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 352.0 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 10 (67%)

Requests Now

15

After Optimization

5

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 15 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Quick Trade. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 7 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

quicktrade.co.za

quicktrade.co.za

582 ms

bootstrap.min.css

bootstrap.min.css

49 ms

bootstrap-theme.min.css

bootstrap-theme.min.css

47 ms

font-awesome.min.css

font-awesome.min.css

31 ms

css.css

css.css

548 ms

jquery-2.1.1.min.js

jquery-2.1.1.min.js

1313 ms

bootstrap.min.js

bootstrap.min.js

50 ms

jquery.cookie.js

jquery.cookie.js

538 ms

docs.min.js

docs.min.js

807 ms

tooltip-viewport.js

tooltip-viewport.js

585 ms

logoQT.png

logoQT.png

1384 ms

protrader.png

protrader.png

1584 ms

ZpguVMGd2lI

ZpguVMGd2lI

65 ms

www-embed-player-vflfNyN_r.css

www-embed-player-vflfNyN_r.css

28 ms

www-embed-player.js

www-embed-player.js

48 ms

Tqng9ngJVK4Gqvh3e602hP-HqlN49KFEUSDtmrOPmWo.js

Tqng9ngJVK4Gqvh3e602hP-HqlN49KFEUSDtmrOPmWo.js

62 ms

ad_status.js

ad_status.js

60 ms

fontawesome-webfont.woff

fontawesome-webfont.woff

16 ms

glyphicons-halflings-regular.woff

glyphicons-halflings-regular.woff

3 ms

Accessibility Review

quicktrade.co.za accessibility score

80

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

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

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

SEO Factors

quicktrade.co.za SEO score

77

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

Links do not have descriptive text

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Crawling and Indexing

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

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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 Quicktrade.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 Quicktrade.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

quicktrade.co.za

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