Report Summary

  • 55

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    72% of other websites

  • 46

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 19% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 67

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    25% of websites

raceweb.co.za

High performance driver coaching, advanced driving, race car rental, racing experiences.

Page Load Speed

14.5 sec in total

First Response

1.7 sec

Resources Loaded

11.5 sec

Page Rendered

1.4 sec

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Raceweb.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 1.7 sec and then it took 12.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 90% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

raceweb.co.za performance score

55

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.8 s

57/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.8 s

84/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.0 s

63/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,220 ms

20/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value13.1 s

12/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

raceweb.co.za

1711 ms

ga.js

5 ms

all.js

71 ms

bg-big.jpg

2073 ms

index_02.jpg

1869 ms

Our browser made a total of 144 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 76% of them (110 requests) were addressed to the original Raceweb.co.za, 6% (8 requests) were made to Static.xx.fbcdn.net and 3% (4 requests) were made to Platform.twitter.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (4.6 sec) belongs to the original domain Raceweb.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 930.0 kB (19%)

Content Size

5.0 MB

After Optimization

4.0 MB

In fact, the total size of Raceweb.co.za main page is 5.0 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. 75% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Images take 4.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 58.2 kB

  • Original 68.5 kB
  • After minification 53.6 kB
  • After compression 10.3 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 14.9 kB, which is 22% 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 58.2 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-12%

Potential reduce by 531.4 kB

  • Original 4.4 MB
  • After minification 3.9 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. Obviously, Race Web needs image optimization as it can save up to 531.4 kB or 12% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-60%

Potential reduce by 137.9 kB

  • Original 228.3 kB
  • After minification 228.2 kB
  • After compression 90.4 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 137.9 kB or 60% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 202.6 kB

  • Original 244.2 kB
  • After minification 244.1 kB
  • After compression 41.5 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. Raceweb.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 202.6 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 17 (12%)

Requests Now

141

After Optimization

124

The browser has sent 141 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Race Web. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 15 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

raceweb.co.za accessibility score

46

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.

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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

Best Practices

raceweb.co.za best practices score

75

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

SEO Factors

raceweb.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

    N/A

  • 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 Raceweb.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) and no language is claimed in <html> or <meta> tags either. Our system also found out that Raceweb.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 Race Web. 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: