Report Summary

  • 1

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    19% of other websites

  • 82

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 54% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 77

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    36% of websites

sportsmanswarehouse.co.za

South Africa's leading sports store - Shop online or in-store | Sportsmans Warehouse

Page Load Speed

9.2 sec in total

First Response

718 ms

Resources Loaded

7.6 sec

Page Rendered

860 ms

sportsmanswarehouse.co.za screenshot

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Key Findings

We analyzed Sportsmanswarehouse.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 718 ms and then it took 8.5 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

sportsmanswarehouse.co.za performance score

1

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.3 s

3/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value10.1 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value15.2 s

1/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value8,820 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value1.205

1/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value31.3 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

sportsmanswarehouse.co.za

718 ms

www.sportsmanswarehouse.co.za

1352 ms

jquery.js

1454 ms

js

89 ms

gmaps.min.js

2180 ms

Our browser made a total of 96 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 5% of them (5 requests) were addressed to the original Sportsmanswarehouse.co.za, 52% (50 requests) were made to Res.cloudinary.com and 36% (35 requests) were made to Swh.cachefly.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.6 sec) relates to the external source Swh.cachefly.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 514.4 kB (14%)

Content Size

3.6 MB

After Optimization

3.1 MB

In fact, the total size of Sportsmanswarehouse.co.za main page is 3.6 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 3.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 123.4 kB

  • Original 141.8 kB
  • After minification 122.6 kB
  • After compression 18.4 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 19.3 kB, which is 14% 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 123.4 kB or 87% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-10%

Potential reduce by 357.2 kB

  • Original 3.4 MB
  • After minification 3.1 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. Sportsmans Warehouse images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-61%

Potential reduce by 33.9 kB

  • Original 55.7 kB
  • After minification 54.6 kB
  • After compression 21.8 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 33.9 kB or 61% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 9 (11%)

Requests Now

83

After Optimization

74

The browser has sent 83 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Sportsmans Warehouse. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 7 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

sportsmanswarehouse.co.za accessibility score

82

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best practices

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

sportsmanswarehouse.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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

sportsmanswarehouse.co.za SEO score

77

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

High

Links do not have descriptive text

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Sportsmanswarehouse.co.za can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Sportsmanswarehouse.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 Sportsmans Warehouse. 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: