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Report Summary

  • 38

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    57% of other websites

  • 82

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 52% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 98

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    92% of websites

southafricanlawyer.co.za

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Page Load Speed

9 sec in total

First Response

97 ms

Resources Loaded

8.7 sec

Page Rendered

201 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Southafricanlawyer.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 97 ms and then it took 8.9 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

southafricanlawyer.co.za performance score

38

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value7.5 s

1/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value11.2 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value10.4 s

8/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value410 ms

66/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.015

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value11.4 s

19/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

southafricanlawyer.co.za

97 ms

southafricanlawyer.co.za

1137 ms

www.southafricanlawyer.co.za

1309 ms

jquery-3.5.1.min.js

27 ms

jquery-ui.min.css

1136 ms

Our browser made a total of 40 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 78% of them (31 requests) were addressed to the original Southafricanlawyer.co.za, 5% (2 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 3% (1 request) were made to Code.jquery.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (3.3 sec) belongs to the original domain Southafricanlawyer.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 62.2 kB (11%)

Content Size

550.8 kB

After Optimization

488.6 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Southafricanlawyer.co.za main page is 550.8 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. 20% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 371.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 36.9 kB

  • Original 46.9 kB
  • After minification 39.5 kB
  • After compression 10.0 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 7.4 kB, which is 16% 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 36.9 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 19.8 kB

  • Original 371.7 kB
  • After minification 352.0 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. South African Lawyer images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 204 B

  • Original 72.6 kB
  • After minification 72.6 kB
  • After compression 72.4 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-9%

Potential reduce by 5.3 kB

  • Original 59.6 kB
  • After minification 57.6 kB
  • After compression 54.3 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. Southafricanlawyer.co.za has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 16 (48%)

Requests Now

33

After Optimization

17

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 33 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of South African Lawyer. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 8 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 10 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

southafricanlawyer.co.za

southafricanlawyer.co.za

97 ms

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southafricanlawyer.co.za

1137 ms

www.southafricanlawyer.co.za

www.southafricanlawyer.co.za

1309 ms

jquery-3.5.1.min.js

jquery-3.5.1.min.js

27 ms

jquery-ui.min.css

jquery-ui.min.css

1136 ms

jquery-ui.structure.min.css

jquery-ui.structure.min.css

1163 ms

jquery-ui.theme.min.css

jquery-ui.theme.min.css

1150 ms

jquery-ui.min.js

jquery-ui.min.js

1883 ms

bootstrap.min.css

bootstrap.min.css

1537 ms

bootstrap-theme.min.css

bootstrap-theme.min.css

1167 ms

bootstrap.min.js

bootstrap.min.js

2284 ms

main.css

main.css

2656 ms

page-home.css

page-home.css

1547 ms

custom.css

custom.css

2311 ms

adsbygoogle.js

adsbygoogle.js

81 ms

jquery.background-video.js

jquery.background-video.js

2683 ms

jquery.background-video.css

jquery.background-video.css

2686 ms

stickymenu.js

stickymenu.js

3008 ms

brand

brand

37 ms

js

js

85 ms

brandjs.js

brandjs.js

13 ms

css

css

30 ms

assets.png

assets.png

1133 ms

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logo-assets-new.png

1142 ms

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2282 ms

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2253 ms

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2300 ms

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2289 ms

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2278 ms

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2577 ms

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128 ms

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3316 ms

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3345 ms

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3056 ms

Accessibility Review

southafricanlawyer.co.za accessibility score

82

Accessibility Issues

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

Form elements do not have associated labels

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

Best Practices

southafricanlawyer.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

southafricanlawyer.co.za SEO score

98

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

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    WINDOWS-1252

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Southafricanlawyer.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 Southafricanlawyer.co.za main page’s claimed encoding is windows-1252. 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.

Social Sharing Optimization

southafricanlawyer.co.za

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of South African Lawyer. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: