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Report Summary

  • 31

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    51% of other websites

  • 82

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 52% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    74% of websites

tradersonline.co.za

TradersOnline | Home

Page Load Speed

5.7 sec in total

First Response

676 ms

Resources Loaded

4.5 sec

Page Rendered

610 ms

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About Website

Click here to check amazing Traders Online content for South Africa. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about tradersonline.co.za

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Key Findings

We analyzed Tradersonline.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 676 ms and then it took 5.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 75% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

tradersonline.co.za performance score

31

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.1 s

9/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.3 s

2/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.8 s

35/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value880 ms

32/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.029

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value11.7 s

18/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

tradersonline.co.za

676 ms

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1173 ms

iconify.min.js

81 ms

jquery.min.js

72 ms

jquery-ui.min.js

96 ms

Our browser made a total of 79 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 47% of them (37 requests) were addressed to the original Tradersonline.co.za, 15% (12 requests) were made to Digitalstorage.s3.af-south-1.amazonaws.com and 8% (6 requests) were made to Cdn.jsdelivr.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.5 sec) relates to the external source Digitalstorage.s3.af-south-1.amazonaws.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 212.9 kB (19%)

Content Size

1.1 MB

After Optimization

902.5 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Tradersonline.co.za main page is 1.1 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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 641.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 67.4 kB

  • Original 84.0 kB
  • After minification 59.8 kB
  • After compression 16.6 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 24.3 kB, which is 29% 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 67.4 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-16%

Potential reduce by 103.0 kB

  • Original 641.9 kB
  • After minification 538.9 kB

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, Traders Online needs image optimization as it can save up to 103.0 kB or 16% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-11%

Potential reduce by 35.4 kB

  • Original 317.2 kB
  • After minification 317.2 kB
  • After compression 281.8 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 35.4 kB or 11% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-10%

Potential reduce by 7.1 kB

  • Original 72.3 kB
  • After minification 72.3 kB
  • After compression 65.2 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. Tradersonline.co.za has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 34 (56%)

Requests Now

61

After Optimization

27

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 61 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Traders Online. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 25 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 11 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

tradersonline.co.za

tradersonline.co.za

676 ms

tradersonline.co.za

tradersonline.co.za

1173 ms

iconify.min.js

iconify.min.js

81 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

72 ms

jquery-ui.min.js

jquery-ui.min.js

96 ms

bootstrap.bundle.min.js

bootstrap.bundle.min.js

76 ms

bootstrap.min.css

bootstrap.min.css

94 ms

css2

css2

94 ms

select2.min.css

select2.min.css

70 ms

select2.min.js

select2.min.js

77 ms

vue.global.prod.js

vue.global.prod.js

355 ms

vue-form-wizard.min.css

vue-form-wizard.min.css

78 ms

vue-form-wizard.js

vue-form-wizard.js

424 ms

api.js

api.js

122 ms

ScrollMagic.min.js

ScrollMagic.min.js

75 ms

debug.addIndicators.min.js

debug.addIndicators.min.js

121 ms

main.css

main.css

248 ms

scrollmagicanimations.js

scrollmagicanimations.js

479 ms

main.js

main.js

703 ms

bootstrap.min.css

bootstrap.min.css

705 ms

font-awesome.min.css

font-awesome.min.css

889 ms

bootstrap-yii.css

bootstrap-yii.css

902 ms

jquery-ui-bootstrap.css

jquery-ui-bootstrap.css

930 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

937 ms

bootstrap.min.js

bootstrap.min.js

927 ms

bootstrap-noconflict.js

bootstrap-noconflict.js

949 ms

bootbox.min.js

bootbox.min.js

1110 ms

notify.min.js

notify.min.js

1125 ms

jquery.yiiactiveform.js

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1147 ms

api.js

api.js

118 ms

slick.css

slick.css

60 ms

slick.min.js

slick.min.js

69 ms

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32 ms

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54 ms

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299 ms

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510 ms

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299 ms

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510 ms

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298 ms

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298 ms

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511 ms

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513 ms

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511 ms

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512 ms

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670 ms

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674 ms

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902 ms

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205 ms

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20 ms

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79 ms

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3 ms

Accessibility Review

tradersonline.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.

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

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

tradersonline.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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

tradersonline.co.za SEO score

92

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

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

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 Tradersonline.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 Tradersonline.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

tradersonline.co.za

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Traders Online. 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: