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Report Summary

  • 8

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    22% of other websites

  • 76

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 42% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 83

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    46% of websites

randforecasts.co.za

Home | Dynamic Outcomes | Rand Forecasts vs Dollar, Euro and Pound — Rand Forecasts - Expert Analysis & Predictions Since 2005

Page Load Speed

6.6 sec in total

First Response

255 ms

Resources Loaded

5.9 sec

Page Rendered

402 ms

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About Website

Visit randforecasts.co.za now to see the best up-to-date Rand Forecasts content and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about randforecasts.co.za

Providing South African Rand exchange rate predictions vs Dollar, Euro & Pound to help exporters, importers & individuals manage their Rand forex exposures

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Key Findings

We analyzed Randforecasts.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 255 ms and then it took 6.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 80% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

randforecasts.co.za performance score

8

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value7.7 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.9 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value19.4 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value6,200 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.246

50/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value29.8 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

randforecasts.co.za

255 ms

www.forexforecasts.co.za

2297 ms

js

72 ms

analytics.js

24 ms

js

113 ms

Our browser made a total of 105 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Randforecasts.co.za, 59% (62 requests) were made to Forexforecasts.co.za and 12% (13 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.3 sec) relates to the external source Forexforecasts.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 478.0 kB (25%)

Content Size

1.9 MB

After Optimization

1.4 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Randforecasts.co.za main page is 1.9 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. Javascripts take 868.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 110.6 kB

  • Original 140.0 kB
  • After minification 138.1 kB
  • After compression 29.4 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 110.6 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 12.1 kB

  • Original 475.0 kB
  • After minification 462.9 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. Rand Forecasts images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-17%

Potential reduce by 144.0 kB

  • Original 868.6 kB
  • After minification 866.2 kB
  • After compression 724.6 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 144.0 kB or 17% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-50%

Potential reduce by 211.3 kB

  • Original 419.1 kB
  • After minification 409.8 kB
  • After compression 207.8 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. Randforecasts.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 211.3 kB or 50% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 65 (72%)

Requests Now

90

After Optimization

25

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 90 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Rand Forecasts. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 48 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 19 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

randforecasts.co.za

randforecasts.co.za

255 ms

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Accessibility Review

randforecasts.co.za accessibility score

76

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 input fields do not have accessible names

High

[role]s do not have all required [aria-*] attributes

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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.

Best Practices

randforecasts.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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

randforecasts.co.za SEO score

83

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 doesn't use 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 Randforecasts.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 Randforecasts.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

randforecasts.co.za

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of Rand Forecasts. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: