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Report Summary

  • 17

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    32% 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

  • 85

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    55% of websites

thespecialists.co.za

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Page Load Speed

13 sec in total

First Response

1.8 sec

Resources Loaded

10.6 sec

Page Rendered

583 ms

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About Website

Click here to check amazing The Specialists content for South Africa. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about thespecialists.co.za

Pest Control, Cleaning and Hygiene Services in South Africa. We Offer Efficient, Reliable Pest Control Services in SA for Homes & Businesses.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Thespecialists.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 1.8 sec and then it took 11.2 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

thespecialists.co.za performance score

17

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.4 s

7/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value18.6 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value19.1 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value800 ms

37/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.346

32/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value19.8 s

2/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

thespecialists.co.za

1837 ms

css

41 ms

js

73 ms

seo-automation-styles.css

900 ms

front.min.css

902 ms

Our browser made a total of 111 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 75% of them (83 requests) were addressed to the original Thespecialists.co.za, 18% (20 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 3% (3 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (3 sec) belongs to the original domain Thespecialists.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 498.1 kB (13%)

Content Size

3.9 MB

After Optimization

3.4 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript

In fact, the total size of Thespecialists.co.za main page is 3.9 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 3.5 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 285.5 kB

  • Original 336.8 kB
  • After minification 330.8 kB
  • After compression 51.3 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. 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 285.5 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 205.4 kB

  • Original 3.5 MB
  • After minification 3.3 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 Specialists images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-15%

Potential reduce by 7.2 kB

  • Original 49.7 kB
  • After minification 49.7 kB
  • After compression 42.5 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 7.2 kB or 15% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 52 (59%)

Requests Now

88

After Optimization

36

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 88 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of The Specialists. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 33 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 21 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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Accessibility Review

thespecialists.co.za accessibility score

80

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

thespecialists.co.za best practices score

75

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

thespecialists.co.za SEO score

85

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

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 Thespecialists.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 Thespecialists.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

thespecialists.co.za

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