Report Summary

  • 29

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    49% of other websites

  • 98

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 94% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    95% of websites

sm-accounting.co.za

SM Accounting | Tax Consultant | Business Registrations | BBBEE | CIDB | Annual Returns | CSD | Financials| UIF|

Page Load Speed

2.1 sec in total

First Response

616 ms

Resources Loaded

1.3 sec

Page Rendered

114 ms

sm-accounting.co.za screenshot

About Website

Click here to check amazing SM Accounting content for South Africa. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about sm-accounting.co.za

SM Accounting and Tax Consultants is accounting firm based in Richards bay Kwa-Zulu Natal

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Key Findings

We analyzed Sm-accounting.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 616 ms and then it took 1.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 25% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

sm-accounting.co.za performance score

29

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.1 s

8/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.3 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value28.7 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value350 ms

73/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.372

28/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value11.1 s

20/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

sm-accounting.co.za

616 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

56 ms

front.css

62 ms

style.css

60 ms

styles.css

64 ms

Our browser made a total of 38 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 79% of them (30 requests) were addressed to the original Sm-accounting.co.za, 16% (6 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 5% (2 requests) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (616 ms) belongs to the original domain Sm-accounting.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 257.6 kB (39%)

Content Size

657.6 kB

After Optimization

400.0 kB

In fact, the total size of Sm-accounting.co.za main page is 657.6 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. 30% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 298.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 16.4 kB

  • Original 20.8 kB
  • After minification 18.7 kB
  • After compression 4.4 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 16.4 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 13.3 kB

  • Original 298.5 kB
  • After minification 285.2 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. SM Accounting images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-67%

Potential reduce by 134.3 kB

  • Original 201.7 kB
  • After minification 197.8 kB
  • After compression 67.4 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 134.3 kB or 67% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-69%

Potential reduce by 93.6 kB

  • Original 136.6 kB
  • After minification 106.9 kB
  • After compression 43.0 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. Sm-accounting.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 93.6 kB or 69% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 23 (74%)

Requests Now

31

After Optimization

8

The browser has sent 31 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of SM Accounting. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 13 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 12 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

sm-accounting.co.za accessibility score

98

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.

Best Practices

sm-accounting.co.za best practices score

67

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

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

sm-accounting.co.za SEO score

100

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

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

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