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Report Summary

  • 25

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    45% of other websites

  • 67

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 32% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 83

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    46% of websites

roofrats.co.za

SA Roof Rats – We clean where others fear to tread!

Page Load Speed

3.6 sec in total

First Response

798 ms

Resources Loaded

2.2 sec

Page Rendered

599 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Roofrats.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 798 ms and then it took 2.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 45% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

roofrats.co.za performance score

25

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.2 s

42/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.3 s

10/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.2 s

43/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value5,160 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.153

75/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value10.4 s

24/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

roofrats.co.za

798 ms

system.base.css

57 ms

system.messages.css

59 ms

system.theme.css

59 ms

date.css

55 ms

Our browser made a total of 80 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 86% of them (69 requests) were addressed to the original Roofrats.co.za, 11% (9 requests) were made to Google.com and 1% (1 request) were made to Track.websiteceo.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1 sec) relates to the external source Track.websiteceo.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 449.0 kB (27%)

Content Size

1.6 MB

After Optimization

1.2 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Roofrats.co.za main page is 1.6 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. 35% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 39.5 kB

  • Original 50.8 kB
  • After minification 48.6 kB
  • After compression 11.3 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. 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 39.5 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 65.1 kB

  • Original 1.1 MB
  • After minification 1.1 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. Roof Rats images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-71%

Potential reduce by 225.8 kB

  • Original 317.0 kB
  • After minification 277.1 kB
  • After compression 91.2 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 225.8 kB or 71% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-89%

Potential reduce by 118.6 kB

  • Original 133.3 kB
  • After minification 99.8 kB
  • After compression 14.7 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. Roofrats.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 118.6 kB or 89% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 49 (62%)

Requests Now

79

After Optimization

30

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 79 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Roof Rats. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 22 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 21 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

roofrats.co.za

roofrats.co.za

798 ms

system.base.css

system.base.css

57 ms

system.messages.css

system.messages.css

59 ms

system.theme.css

system.theme.css

59 ms

date.css

date.css

55 ms

datepicker.1.7.css

datepicker.1.7.css

54 ms

field.css

field.css

58 ms

logintoboggan.css

logintoboggan.css

91 ms

node.css

node.css

91 ms

user.css

user.css

91 ms

extlink.css

extlink.css

92 ms

views.css

views.css

98 ms

ckeditor.css

ckeditor.css

100 ms

colorbox_style.css

colorbox_style.css

128 ms

ctools.css

ctools.css

129 ms

panels.css

panels.css

132 ms

onecol.css

onecol.css

133 ms

nice_menus.css

nice_menus.css

140 ms

nice_menus_default.css

nice_menus_default.css

148 ms

webform.css

webform.css

164 ms

normalize.css

normalize.css

177 ms

zen_roof.css

zen_roof.css

171 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

209 ms

jquery.once.js

jquery.once.js

178 ms

drupal.js

drupal.js

190 ms

jquery.bgiframe.js

jquery.bgiframe.js

226 ms

jquery.hoverIntent.js

jquery.hoverIntent.js

226 ms

superfish.js

superfish.js

227 ms

nice_menus.js

nice_menus.js

228 ms

extlink.js

extlink.js

236 ms

jquery.colorbox.js

jquery.colorbox.js

249 ms

colorbox.js

colorbox.js

251 ms

colorbox_style.js

colorbox_style.js

253 ms

colorbox_load.js

colorbox_load.js

256 ms

colorbox_inline.js

colorbox_inline.js

261 ms

captcha.js

captcha.js

278 ms

challenge

challenge

59 ms

textarea.js

textarea.js

284 ms

webform.js

webform.js

246 ms

script.js

script.js

252 ms

webceo.js

webceo.js

288 ms

body-bg.png

body-bg.png

24 ms

roof-bg.jpg

roof-bg.jpg

72 ms

rats_logo.png

rats_logo.png

113 ms

divider.png

divider.png

70 ms

menu-second.png

menu-second.png

70 ms

sidebar-right-bg.png

sidebar-right-bg.png

70 ms

702_award_half_in_jpg.jpg

702_award_half_in_jpg.jpg

98 ms

geyser001.jpg

geyser001.jpg

215 ms

2015-05-13_15.55.45.jpg

2015-05-13_15.55.45.jpg

154 ms

30-bullet.ico

30-bullet.ico

90 ms

download-purple.png

download-purple.png

99 ms

testimonial_rat.png

testimonial_rat.png

129 ms

testimonial_arrow.png

testimonial_arrow.png

138 ms

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2015-03-04_14.16.41a_1.jpg

144 ms

aeropink-logo.jpg

aeropink-logo.jpg

263 ms

HarvestPrint_logo.jpg

HarvestPrint_logo.jpg

170 ms

30-fb.png

30-fb.png

183 ms

30-tw.png

30-tw.png

181 ms

recaptcha.js

recaptcha.js

6 ms

y-Su-4k9eYyj6x-MrRcMqfwazYsXF-sdy8N0CzTUQBc.js

y-Su-4k9eYyj6x-MrRcMqfwazYsXF-sdy8N0CzTUQBc.js

33 ms

bite-top.png

bite-top.png

170 ms

bite-bottom.png

bite-bottom.png

196 ms

footer-rats.png

footer-rats.png

195 ms

1035 ms

map.png

map.png

186 ms

gauteng-rat.png

gauteng-rat.png

187 ms

kwazulu-natal-rat.png

kwazulu-natal-rat.png

189 ms

eastern-cape-rat.png

eastern-cape-rat.png

203 ms

north-west-rat.png

north-west-rat.png

201 ms

western-cape-rat.png

western-cape-rat.png

220 ms

extlink_s.png

extlink_s.png

225 ms

grippie.png

grippie.png

226 ms

refresh.gif

refresh.gif

6 ms

audio.gif

audio.gif

7 ms

text.gif

text.gif

10 ms

help.gif

help.gif

9 ms

sprite.png

sprite.png

6 ms

reload

reload

30 ms

dos_captcha.jpg

dos_captcha.jpg

56 ms

Accessibility Review

roofrats.co.za accessibility score

67

Accessibility Issues

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

roofrats.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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

roofrats.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

Links do not have descriptive text

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

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Roofrats.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 Roofrats.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

roofrats.co.za

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