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Visit solar.co.zaWe analyzed Solar.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 174 ms and then it took 1.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 30% of websites can load faster.
solar.co.za performance score
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Value4.5 s
15/100
10%
Value4.6 s
35/100
25%
Value5.9 s
48/100
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Value120 ms
97/100
30%
Value0.014
100/100
15%
Value5.9 s
65/100
10%
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Our browser made a total of 40 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 3% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Solar.co.za, 38% (15 requests) were made to Search.co.za and 15% (6 requests) were made to Pagead2.googlesyndication.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (397 ms) relates to the external source Load.sumome.com.
Page size can be reduced by 185.6 kB (64%)
289.0 kB
103.4 kB
In fact, the total size of Solar.co.za main page is 289.0 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. 45% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 247.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.
Potential reduce by 29.8 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 29.8 kB or 84% of the original size.
Potential reduce by 18 B
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. Solar images are well optimized though.
Potential reduce by 152.9 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 152.9 kB or 62% of the original size.
Potential reduce by 3.0 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. Solar.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 3.0 kB or 75% of the original size.
Number of requests can be reduced by 13 (36%)
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The browser has sent 36 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Solar. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 14 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.
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solar.co.za accessibility score
Contrast
These are opportunities to improve the legibility of your content.
Impact
Issue
Background and foreground colors do not have a sufficient contrast ratio.
Navigation
These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.
Impact
Issue
Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order
solar.co.za best practices score
Trust and Safety
Impact
Issue
Does not use HTTPS
Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks
General
Impact
Issue
Detected JavaScript libraries
solar.co.za SEO score
Content Best Practices
Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.
Impact
Issue
Links do not have descriptive text
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
Document uses legible font sizes
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EN
ISO-8859-1
Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Solar.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 Solar.co.za main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.
solar.co.za
Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Solar. 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: