Report Summary

  • 36

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    56% of other websites

  • 98

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 94% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 83

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    46% of websites

syncrony.com

Johannesburg based Website, Software Development, Mobile Apps and Magento specialists

Page Load Speed

11.5 sec in total

First Response

2.5 sec

Resources Loaded

8.5 sec

Page Rendered

523 ms

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About Website

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Syncrony Digital based in Sandton South Africa, developers of custom software apps and websites since 1999. We specialize in Microsoft Development, Umbraco website and apps and Magento Online stores.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Syncrony.com page load time and found that the first response time was 2.5 sec and then it took 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

syncrony.com performance score

36

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.1 s

8/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.0 s

2/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.6 s

17/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value640 ms

46/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value8.2 s

41/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

syncrony.com

2504 ms

default.css

1573 ms

skin.css

2246 ms

HomePage.css

1257 ms

container.css

944 ms

Our browser made a total of 97 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 84% of them (81 requests) were addressed to the original Syncrony.com, 6% (6 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 4% (4 requests) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (3 sec) belongs to the original domain Syncrony.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 2.7 MB (41%)

Content Size

6.7 MB

After Optimization

3.9 MB

In fact, the total size of Syncrony.com main page is 6.7 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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 3.9 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-65%

Potential reduce by 66.7 kB

  • Original 103.2 kB
  • After minification 93.6 kB
  • After compression 36.5 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 66.7 kB or 65% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-13%

Potential reduce by 510.5 kB

  • Original 3.9 MB
  • After minification 3.4 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. Obviously, Syncrony needs image optimization as it can save up to 510.5 kB or 13% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 1.5 MB

  • Original 2.0 MB
  • After minification 1.6 MB
  • After compression 472.6 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 1.5 MB or 77% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-88%

Potential reduce by 606.8 kB

  • Original 690.5 kB
  • After minification 532.2 kB
  • After compression 83.7 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. Syncrony.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 606.8 kB or 88% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 62 (70%)

Requests Now

88

After Optimization

26

The browser has sent 88 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Syncrony. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 36 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 18 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

syncrony.com 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

syncrony.com best practices score

92

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

syncrony.com SEO score

83

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

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

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 Syncrony.com 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 Syncrony.com 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 data is detected on the main page of Syncrony. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: