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Report Summary

  • 22

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    40% of other websites

  • 80

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 49% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 81

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    43% of websites

sowetovolkswagen.co.za

New VW Vehicles | MasterCars | Soweto Volkswagen

Page Load Speed

13 sec in total

First Response

880 ms

Resources Loaded

10.2 sec

Page Rendered

1.9 sec

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About Website

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

Discover our selection of new VW vehicles for sale. We also offer MasterCars, servicing, parts and much more. Give us a call if you have any questions.

Visit sowetovolkswagen.co.za

Key Findings

We analyzed Sowetovolkswagen.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 880 ms and then it took 12.1 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

sowetovolkswagen.co.za performance score

22

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.8 s

5/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.7 s

8/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value24.2 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,020 ms

26/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.157

74/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value18.7 s

3/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

sowetovolkswagen.co.za

880 ms

sowetovolkswagen.co.za

1287 ms

www.sowetovolkswagen.co.za

2237 ms

main.js

70 ms

js

71 ms

Our browser made a total of 70 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 66% of them (46 requests) were addressed to the original Sowetovolkswagen.co.za, 26% (18 requests) were made to Image.blob.ix.co.za and 6% (4 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (4.3 sec) relates to the external source Image.blob.ix.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 61.6 kB (2%)

Content Size

3.0 MB

After Optimization

2.9 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Sowetovolkswagen.co.za main page is 3.0 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 2.8 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 43.7 kB

  • Original 53.0 kB
  • After minification 36.8 kB
  • After compression 9.3 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 16.2 kB, which is 31% 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 43.7 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 808 B

  • Original 2.8 MB
  • After minification 2.8 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. Soweto Volkswagen images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 6.9 kB

  • Original 127.3 kB
  • After minification 127.1 kB
  • After compression 120.4 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

-26%

Potential reduce by 10.3 kB

  • Original 39.3 kB
  • After minification 29.7 kB
  • After compression 29.1 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. Sowetovolkswagen.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 10.3 kB or 26% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 39 (66%)

Requests Now

59

After Optimization

20

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 59 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Soweto Volkswagen. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 28 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 13 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

sowetovolkswagen.co.za

sowetovolkswagen.co.za

880 ms

sowetovolkswagen.co.za

sowetovolkswagen.co.za

1287 ms

www.sowetovolkswagen.co.za

www.sowetovolkswagen.co.za

2237 ms

main.js

main.js

70 ms

js

js

71 ms

js

js

109 ms

fbevents.js

fbevents.js

31 ms

js

js

162 ms

js

js

138 ms

css

css

1189 ms

select2.min.css

select2.min.css

1231 ms

fontawesome-all.min.css

fontawesome-all.min.css

1236 ms

style.css

style.css

1238 ms

custom.css

custom.css

1250 ms

ss.css

ss.css

1263 ms

side-nav.css

side-nav.css

1484 ms

widget.css

widget.css

1536 ms

swiper-bundle.min.css

swiper-bundle.min.css

1542 ms

ci.css

ci.css

1544 ms

dcard.css

dcard.css

1560 ms

sig-e6-core.css

sig-e6-core.css

1576 ms

sig-e6-ss.css

sig-e6-ss.css

1781 ms

jquery

jquery

2785 ms

bootstrap

bootstrap

2482 ms

jquery.inputmask.min.js

jquery.inputmask.min.js

1598 ms

engine

engine

1896 ms

LazyLoader.min.js

LazyLoader.min.js

1599 ms

Wishlist.min.js

Wishlist.min.js

1788 ms

Widget.min.js

Widget.min.js

1874 ms

select2.min.js

select2.min.js

1912 ms

ImageRotator.min.js

ImageRotator.min.js

2088 ms

fingerprint.min.js

fingerprint.min.js

2181 ms

WGLHashing.min.js

WGLHashing.min.js

2206 ms

blueimp-gallery.min.js

blueimp-gallery.min.js

2225 ms

blueimp-gallery-youtube.min.js

blueimp-gallery-youtube.min.js

2385 ms

blueimp-gallery-video.min.js

blueimp-gallery-video.min.js

2487 ms

blueimp-gallery-indicator.min.js

blueimp-gallery-indicator.min.js

2515 ms

script.js

script.js

2537 ms

side-nav.js

side-nav.js

2683 ms

custom.js

custom.js

2839 ms

swiper-bundle.min.js

swiper-bundle.min.js

2840 ms

skrollr.min.js

skrollr.min.js

2841 ms

ci.js

ci.js

2857 ms

dcard.js

dcard.js

2979 ms

sig-e6-core.js

sig-e6-core.js

3089 ms

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3339 ms

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2735 ms

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4324 ms

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2682 ms

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2762 ms

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3288 ms

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3033 ms

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3351 ms

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3075 ms

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3338 ms

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3384 ms

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3589 ms

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3642 ms

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3641 ms

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ix_blue_150x120.svg

3656 ms

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1508 ms

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1546 ms

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1545 ms

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1582 ms

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1684 ms

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1817 ms

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1823 ms

Accessibility Review

sowetovolkswagen.co.za accessibility score

80

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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

sowetovolkswagen.co.za best practices score

75

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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

sowetovolkswagen.co.za SEO score

81

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

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 Sowetovolkswagen.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 Sowetovolkswagen.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

sowetovolkswagen.co.za

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