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Report Summary

  • 43

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    62% of other websites

  • 84

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 56% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 83

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    46% of websites

qvc.co.za

QVC

Page Load Speed

8.5 sec in total

First Response

505 ms

Resources Loaded

7.5 sec

Page Rendered

496 ms

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About Website

Welcome to qvc.co.za homepage info - get ready to check QVC best content for South Africa right away, or after learning these important things about qvc.co.za

Welcome to Quality Vacation Club. Log into the QVC booking portal from here or enter the website to view destinations and other club information.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Qvc.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 505 ms and then it took 8 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

qvc.co.za performance score

43

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.5 s

15/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value12.0 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value11.2 s

5/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value320 ms

76/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.001

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value9.7 s

28/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

qvc.co.za

505 ms

www.qvc.co.za

1027 ms

js

86 ms

gtm.js

116 ms

bootstrap.min.css

51 ms

Our browser made a total of 49 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 71% of them (35 requests) were addressed to the original Qvc.co.za, 8% (4 requests) were made to Cdn.jsdelivr.net and 6% (3 requests) were made to Code.jquery.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (5.7 sec) belongs to the original domain Qvc.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 43.1 kB (43%)

Content Size

100.7 kB

After Optimization

57.5 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Qvc.co.za main page is 100.7 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. 35% of websites need less resources to load. HTML takes 34.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 27.0 kB

  • Original 34.8 kB
  • After minification 29.2 kB
  • After compression 7.8 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 5.6 kB, which is 16% 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 27.0 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-10%

Potential reduce by 2.9 kB

  • Original 29.8 kB
  • After minification 26.9 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. QVC images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 50 B

  • Original 21.0 kB
  • After minification 21.0 kB
  • After compression 20.9 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-88%

Potential reduce by 13.1 kB

  • Original 15.0 kB
  • After minification 9.7 kB
  • After compression 1.9 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. Qvc.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 13.1 kB or 88% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 12 (27%)

Requests Now

44

After Optimization

32

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 44 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of QVC. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 13 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

qvc.co.za

qvc.co.za

505 ms

www.qvc.co.za

www.qvc.co.za

1027 ms

js

js

86 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

116 ms

bootstrap.min.css

bootstrap.min.css

51 ms

style.css

style.css

252 ms

css2

css2

45 ms

script.js

script.js

498 ms

bootstrap.min.js

bootstrap.min.js

38 ms

bootstrap.bundle.min.js

bootstrap.bundle.min.js

60 ms

jquery-3.4.1.slim.min.js

jquery-3.4.1.slim.min.js

28 ms

popper.min.js

popper.min.js

72 ms

js.cookie.min.js

js.cookie.min.js

71 ms

jquery-1.10.2.js

jquery-1.10.2.js

32 ms

jquery-ui.js

jquery-ui.js

41 ms

cookie.js

cookie.js

744 ms

custom.js

custom.js

749 ms

hotjar-3792702.js

hotjar-3792702.js

125 ms

logo.jpg

logo.jpg

733 ms

homebanner-01.jpg

homebanner-01.jpg

2970 ms

homebanner-06.jpg

homebanner-06.jpg

2234 ms

homebanner-05.jpg

homebanner-05.jpg

3217 ms

homebanner-04.jpg

homebanner-04.jpg

2774 ms

homebanner-02.jpg

homebanner-02.jpg

2035 ms

homebanner-03.jpg

homebanner-03.jpg

3467 ms

offers-banner.png

offers-banner.png

2283 ms

gomelo-small.png

gomelo-small.png

2482 ms

RCIsmall.png

RCIsmall.png

2532 ms

iExchange-logo.png

iExchange-logo.png

2732 ms

7across_partners.png

7across_partners.png

2782 ms

family.jpg

family.jpg

2982 ms

spa.jpg

spa.jpg

3021 ms

wildlife.jpg

wildlife.jpg

3031 ms

adventure.jpg

adventure.jpg

3217 ms

beach.jpg

beach.jpg

3230 ms

cultural.jpg

cultural.jpg

3270 ms

nature.jpg

nature.jpg

3280 ms

africa.jpg

africa.jpg

3465 ms

sub_urban.jpg

sub_urban.jpg

3465 ms

romantic.jpg

romantic.jpg

3479 ms

lone_traveller.jpg

lone_traveller.jpg

3518 ms

digital_detox.jpg

digital_detox.jpg

3528 ms

AfricanBlessings-white.png

AfricanBlessings-white.png

4209 ms

VOASA-white.png

VOASA-white.png

5700 ms

VRS_logo.png

VRS_logo.png

3713 ms

font

font

24 ms

modules.db8890ba82a7e392473f.js

modules.db8890ba82a7e392473f.js

13 ms

404.php

404.php

1005 ms

404.php

404.php

2496 ms

Accessibility Review

qvc.co.za accessibility score

84

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

qvc.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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

qvc.co.za SEO score

83

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

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

    N/A

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Qvc.co.za can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Unfortunately we cannot identify language used on the page (probably there is a mix of languages, too little text or something else), while the claimed language is English. Our system also found out that Qvc.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

qvc.co.za

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