Report Summary

  • 8

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    22% of other websites

  • 85

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 58% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    83% of websites

thedigitalexperience.co.za

Safe, Secure, Online Shopping In South Africa | The Digital Experience

Page Load Speed

12.3 sec in total

First Response

739 ms

Resources Loaded

10.1 sec

Page Rendered

1.4 sec

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Key Findings

We analyzed Thedigitalexperience.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 739 ms and then it took 11.6 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

thedigitalexperience.co.za performance score

8

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value7.7 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value22.7 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value22.5 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value6,920 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.234

53/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value28.2 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

thedigitalexperience.co.za

739 ms

www.digitalexperience.co.za

710 ms

digitalexperience.co.za

1555 ms

style.css

437 ms

jquery.dataTables.css

655 ms

Our browser made a total of 143 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Thedigitalexperience.co.za, 93% (133 requests) were made to Digitalexperience.co.za and 3% (4 requests) were made to Maps.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2 sec) relates to the external source Digitalexperience.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 677.6 kB (22%)

Content Size

3.1 MB

After Optimization

2.4 MB

In fact, the total size of Thedigitalexperience.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. 75% 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 2.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-89%

Potential reduce by 676.3 kB

  • Original 758.8 kB
  • After minification 754.3 kB
  • After compression 82.5 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 676.3 kB or 89% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 366 B

  • Original 2.2 MB
  • After minification 2.2 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. The Digital Experience images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 899 B

  • Original 77.9 kB
  • After minification 77.9 kB
  • After compression 77.0 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.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 50 (36%)

Requests Now

139

After Optimization

89

The browser has sent 139 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of The Digital Experience. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 32 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 20 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

thedigitalexperience.co.za accessibility score

85

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.

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

ARIA IDs are not unique

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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

thedigitalexperience.co.za 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

thedigitalexperience.co.za SEO score

93

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

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

Impact

Issue

High

Page is blocked from indexing

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

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Thedigitalexperience.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 Thedigitalexperience.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 The Digital Experience. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: