Report Summary

  • 15

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    27% of other websites

  • 71

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 37% of websites

  • 0

    Best Practices

  • 77

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    36% of websites

business.telkom.co.za

Telkom | Stand Tall and Do Things Big

Page Load Speed

18.6 sec in total

First Response

729 ms

Resources Loaded

17.1 sec

Page Rendered

713 ms

business.telkom.co.za screenshot

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Business.telkom.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 729 ms and then it took 17.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is an excellent result, as only a small number of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

business.telkom.co.za performance score

15

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.0 s

4/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value23.9 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value19.9 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value5,500 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.036

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value32.1 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

business.telkom.co.za

729 ms

1685 ms

f23c7c4a018a.css

1702 ms

083e885b365d.js

1804 ms

fastclick.min.js

540 ms

Our browser made a total of 51 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Business.telkom.co.za, 71% (36 requests) were made to Telkom.co.za and 6% (3 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (6 sec) relates to the external source Telkom.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.2 MB (38%)

Content Size

3.1 MB

After Optimization

1.9 MB

In fact, the total size of Business.telkom.co.za main page is 3.1 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. 55% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.7 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-89%

Potential reduce by 96.2 kB

  • Original 108.5 kB
  • After minification 72.0 kB
  • After compression 12.3 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 36.5 kB, which is 34% 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 96.2 kB or 89% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 72.1 kB

  • Original 1.7 MB
  • After minification 1.6 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. Business Telkom images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-67%

Potential reduce by 413.0 kB

  • Original 620.2 kB
  • After minification 620.1 kB
  • After compression 207.3 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 413.0 kB or 67% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 613.1 kB

  • Original 715.1 kB
  • After minification 613.3 kB
  • After compression 102.0 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. Business.telkom.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 613.1 kB or 86% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 8 (19%)

Requests Now

43

After Optimization

35

The browser has sent 43 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Business Telkom. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 9 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

business.telkom.co.za accessibility score

71

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Elements with an ARIA [role] that require children to contain a specific [role] are missing some or all of those required children.

High

[role] values are not valid

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

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

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

List items (<li>) are not contained within <ul> or <ol> parent elements.

SEO Factors

business.telkom.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

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