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Report Summary

  • 19

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    37% of other websites

  • 56

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 23% of websites

  • 0

    Best Practices

  • 81

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    43% of websites

safetyfirst.co.za

Road Safety Equipment | Safety Products | Safetyfirst.co.za

Page Load Speed

10.9 sec in total

First Response

981 ms

Resources Loaded

9.6 sec

Page Rendered

306 ms

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About Website

Welcome to safetyfirst.co.za homepage info - get ready to check Safetyfirst best content right away, or after learning these important things about safetyfirst.co.za

Road Safety Equipment and Safety Products. Safety first is South Africa's leading Road Safety Equipment manufacturer and supplier. Road Safety equipment for pedestrian and traffic control, constru...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Safetyfirst.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 981 ms and then it took 9.9 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

safetyfirst.co.za performance score

19

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.4 s

6/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.1 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value15.6 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,830 ms

1/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value10.5 s

24/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

safetyfirst.co.za

981 ms

www.safetyfirst.co.za

2321 ms

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601 ms

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1459 ms

js

64 ms

Our browser made a total of 50 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 90% of them (45 requests) were addressed to the original Safetyfirst.co.za, 4% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 2% (1 request) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.3 sec) belongs to the original domain Safetyfirst.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 847.3 kB (24%)

Content Size

3.5 MB

After Optimization

2.7 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript

In fact, the total size of Safetyfirst.co.za main page is 3.5 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. 45% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 3.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 50.3 kB

  • Original 59.4 kB
  • After minification 46.3 kB
  • After compression 9.1 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 13.1 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 50.3 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-23%

Potential reduce by 796.7 kB

  • Original 3.4 MB
  • After minification 2.6 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, Safetyfirst needs image optimization as it can save up to 796.7 kB or 23% 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 226 B

  • Original 21.9 kB
  • After minification 21.9 kB
  • After compression 21.7 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.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 11 (23%)

Requests Now

48

After Optimization

37

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 48 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Safetyfirst. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 4 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

safetyfirst.co.za

safetyfirst.co.za

981 ms

www.safetyfirst.co.za

www.safetyfirst.co.za

2321 ms

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601 ms

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1459 ms

js

js

64 ms

ajaxRFQForm.js

ajaxRFQForm.js

1045 ms

topbackground.jpg

topbackground.jpg

435 ms

bottombackground.jpg

bottombackground.jpg

398 ms

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295 ms

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icon3.png

408 ms

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1815 ms

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539 ms

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1076 ms

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0001093_wheel-clamps_225.png

802 ms

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0001686_roadquip-pedestrian-barrier_200.png

1303 ms

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0001505_roadquip-convex-mirror-800mm-orange_200.png

1076 ms

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0000509_barrier-net-plastic-1m_200.png

1819 ms

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1657 ms

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0000370_first-aid-reg3-metal-box-contents_200.png

1319 ms

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0000018_first-aid-kit-home-away_200.jpeg

1337 ms

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0001453_under-vehicle-inspection-mirror_200.png

1853 ms

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0000783_contractor-road-cone-orange-750mm_200.png

1572 ms

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0001664_contractor-road-cone-750mm-various-colours_200.png

1600 ms

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0001082_barrier-cone-18m_200.png

2055 ms

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Comalytics-default.png

1870 ms

icon4.png

icon4.png

1801 ms

nav-left.png

nav-left.png

1883 ms

nav-right.png

nav-right.png

1880 ms

loading.gif

loading.gif

1926 ms

icon-phone.png

icon-phone.png

1939 ms

icon-cellphone.png

icon-cellphone.png

1993 ms

icon-email.png

icon-email.png

2114 ms

bullet6.png

bullet6.png

2115 ms

payment_sprite.png

payment_sprite.png

2122 ms

icon5.png

icon5.png

2183 ms

noise.png

noise.png

2090 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

88 ms

collect

collect

13 ms

collect

collect

42 ms

ga-audiences

ga-audiences

58 ms

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538 ms

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975 ms

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499 ms

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1309 ms

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1813 ms

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972 ms

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749 ms

arrow-left.png

arrow-left.png

801 ms

arrow-right.png

arrow-right.png

993 ms

bullets.png

bullets.png

1067 ms

Accessibility Review

safetyfirst.co.za accessibility score

56

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.

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

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.

SEO Factors

safetyfirst.co.za SEO score

81

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

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

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

safetyfirst.co.za

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