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Report Summary

  • 14

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    26% of other websites

  • 88

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 68% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

sapvia.co.za

SAPVIA - The South African Photovoltaic Industry Association

Page Load Speed

12.2 sec in total

First Response

1.2 sec

Resources Loaded

10.1 sec

Page Rendered

862 ms

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About Website

Welcome to sapvia.co.za homepage info - get ready to check SAPVIA best content for South Africa right away, or after learning these important things about sapvia.co.za

SAPVIA is a non-profit industry association established to promote, develop and grow the Photovoltaic industry as part of the wider renewable energy sector in South Africa.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Sapvia.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 1.2 sec and then it took 11 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

sapvia.co.za performance score

14

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value11.0 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value16.6 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value25.4 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value7,410 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.087

93/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value22.2 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.sapvia.co.za

1160 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

243 ms

dashicons.min.css

708 ms

thickbox.css

482 ms

riw.css

483 ms

Our browser made a total of 164 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 95% of them (156 requests) were addressed to the original Sapvia.co.za, 2% (3 requests) were made to Urvenue.co.za and 2% (3 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2 sec) relates to the external source Urvenue.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 966.3 kB (40%)

Content Size

2.4 MB

After Optimization

1.5 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Sapvia.co.za main page is 2.4 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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 31.4 kB

  • Original 40.0 kB
  • After minification 37.7 kB
  • After compression 8.6 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 31.4 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-14%

Potential reduce by 191.8 kB

  • Original 1.4 MB
  • After minification 1.2 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, SAPVIA needs image optimization as it can save up to 191.8 kB or 14% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-70%

Potential reduce by 467.8 kB

  • Original 669.9 kB
  • After minification 596.1 kB
  • After compression 202.2 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 467.8 kB or 70% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 275.4 kB

  • Original 340.9 kB
  • After minification 317.6 kB
  • After compression 65.5 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. Sapvia.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 275.4 kB or 81% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 40 (25%)

Requests Now

162

After Optimization

122

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 162 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of SAPVIA. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 23 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 19 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

www.sapvia.co.za

www.sapvia.co.za

1160 ms

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485 ms

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Accessibility Review

sapvia.co.za accessibility score

88

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

Best Practices

sapvia.co.za best practices score

92

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

sapvia.co.za SEO score

86

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

    UTF-8

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

sapvia.co.za

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