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Report Summary

  • 16

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    30% of other websites

  • 96

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 88% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    20% of websites

  • 82

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    44% of websites

sharpedge.co.za

Sharp Edge Sharpedge Homepage

Page Load Speed

15.5 sec in total

First Response

27 ms

Resources Loaded

14.9 sec

Page Rendered

637 ms

sharpedge.co.za screenshot

About Website

Click here to check amazing Sharp Edge content for South Africa. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about sharpedge.co.za

The largest selection of Knives, Outdoor Equipment, and Tactical Gear in Southern Africa. Shop Online - Free Shipping On Orders Over R1500!

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Key Findings

We analyzed Sharpedge.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 27 ms and then it took 15.5 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

sharpedge.co.za performance score

16

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value7.6 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value32.0 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value38.6 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,210 ms

6/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.072

96/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value32.3 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

sharpedge.co.za

27 ms

www.sharpedge.co.za

1252 ms

calendar.css

28 ms

styles-m.css

43 ms

jquery.mmenu.all.css

35 ms

Our browser made a total of 304 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 96% of them (291 requests) were addressed to the original Sharpedge.co.za, 2% (6 requests) were made to Js.klevu.com and 1% (2 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (6.4 sec) belongs to the original domain Sharpedge.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 717.7 kB (10%)

Content Size

7.1 MB

After Optimization

6.4 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Sharpedge.co.za main page is 7.1 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. 80% 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. Images take 6.5 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 335.1 kB

  • Original 415.3 kB
  • After minification 411.1 kB
  • After compression 80.2 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 335.1 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 350.4 kB

  • Original 6.5 MB
  • After minification 6.1 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. Sharp Edge images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-28%

Potential reduce by 32.0 kB

  • Original 115.6 kB
  • After minification 115.6 kB
  • After compression 83.6 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 32.0 kB or 28% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 172 B

  • Original 102.1 kB
  • After minification 102.1 kB
  • After compression 102.0 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. Sharpedge.co.za has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 197 (67%)

Requests Now

296

After Optimization

99

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 296 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Sharp Edge. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 191 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 8 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

sharpedge.co.za

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1252 ms

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Accessibility Review

sharpedge.co.za accessibility score

96

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.

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

sharpedge.co.za best practices score

58

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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

sharpedge.co.za SEO score

82

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

High

robots.txt is not valid

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 Sharpedge.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 Sharpedge.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

sharpedge.co.za

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