Report Summary

  • 55

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    72% of other websites

  • 74

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 41% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 85

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    56% of websites

remax-central.co.za

Property in Southern Africa | RE/MAX of Southern Africa

Page Load Speed

7.2 sec in total

First Response

462 ms

Resources Loaded

5.1 sec

Page Rendered

1.7 sec

remax-central.co.za screenshot

About Website

Welcome to remax-central.co.za homepage info - get ready to check RE MAX Central best content for South Africa right away, or after learning these important things about remax-central.co.za

Whether buying, selling, renting, or simply looking for advice about property – visit the world’s largest real estate company. RE/MAX of Southern Africa.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Remax-central.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 462 ms and then it took 6.8 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

remax-central.co.za performance score

55

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.5 s

34/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.1 s

24/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.7 s

69/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value370 ms

71/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.024

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value11.4 s

19/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

remax-central.co.za

462 ms

www.remax.co.za

595 ms

bootstrap.min.css

142 ms

main.css

204 ms

tagify.css

342 ms

Our browser made a total of 54 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Remax-central.co.za, 35% (19 requests) were made to Remax.co.za and 13% (7 requests) were made to Cdn.remax.co.za. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.8 sec) relates to the external source Remax.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 146.2 kB (43%)

Content Size

338.3 kB

After Optimization

192.1 kB

In fact, the total size of Remax-central.co.za main page is 338.3 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. 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. HTML takes 163.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 142.3 kB

  • Original 163.2 kB
  • After minification 142.5 kB
  • After compression 20.9 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 20.7 kB, which is 13% 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 142.3 kB or 87% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-16%

Potential reduce by 3.0 kB

  • Original 18.7 kB
  • After minification 15.7 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, RE MAX Central needs image optimization as it can save up to 3.0 kB or 16% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 742 B

  • Original 90.1 kB
  • After minification 90.1 kB
  • After compression 89.3 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

-0%

Potential reduce by 115 B

  • Original 66.4 kB
  • After minification 66.4 kB
  • After compression 66.3 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. Remax-central.co.za has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 28 (58%)

Requests Now

48

After Optimization

20

The browser has sent 48 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of RE MAX Central. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 24 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

remax-central.co.za accessibility score

74

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] values are not valid

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

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

remax-central.co.za best practices score

75

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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

remax-central.co.za SEO score

85

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

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

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • 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 Remax-central.co.za can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Remax-central.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 RE MAX Central. 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: