Access universedirect.co.za. Universe Direct | Your One-Stop Tech & IT Hardware Store in South Africa

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value9.4 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value26.3 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value26.7 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value730 ms

41/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.541

13/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value23.3 s

1/100

10%

www.universedirect.co.za

1977 ms

css

49 ms

js

113 ms

styles.css

233 ms

tables.css

508 ms

Our browser made a total of 119 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 82% of them (98 requests) were addressed to the original Universedirect.co.za, 3% (4 requests) were made to Google.com and 3% (4 requests) were made to Lh3.googleusercontent.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.8 sec) belongs to the original domain Universedirect.co.za.

Content Size

4.5 MB

After Optimization

4.0 MB

In fact, the total size of Universedirect.co.za main page is 4.5 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. 45% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 3.8 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 78.8 kB

Original 95.3 kB
After minification 91.1 kB
After compression 16.5 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 78.8 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-10%

Potential reduce by 391.3 kB

Original 3.8 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. Universe Direct images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 20.6 kB

Original 584.2 kB
After minification 584.2 kB
After compression 563.5 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-22%

Potential reduce by 14.6 kB

Original 65.8 kB
After minification 65.8 kB
After compression 51.2 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. Universedirect.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 14.6 kB or 22% of the original size.

Requests Now

113

After Optimization

The browser has sent 113 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Universe Direct. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 44 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 26 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Issues

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.

High

ARIA input fields do not have accessible names

These are opportunities to improve the legibility of your content.

High

Background and foreground colors do not have a sufficient contrast ratio.

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.

High

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

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Areas of Improvement

High

Does not use HTTPS

High

Includes front-end JavaScript libraries with known security vulnerabilities

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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/).

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 Universedirect.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 Universedirect.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

universedirect.co.za

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Universe Direct. 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:

Report Summary

Performance

Accessibility

Best Practices

SEO

Universe Direct | Your One-Stop Tech & IT Hardware Store in South Africa

Page Load Speed

First Response

Resources Loaded

Page Rendered

About Website

Key Findings

Performance Metrics

Measured Metrics

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

SI (Speed Index)

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Network Requests Diagram

www.universedirect.co.za

css

js

styles.css

tables.css

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Content Size

After Optimization

HTML Optimization

Image Optimization

JavaScript Optimization

CSS Optimization

Requests Breakdown

Requests Now

After Optimization

Network Requests Diagram

www.universedirect.co.za

css

js

styles.css

tables.css

mobile-only.css

480.css

768.css

1000.css

1280.css

perfect-scrollbar.min.css

owl.carousel.css

SmartProductCollections.css

RichBlog.css

nivo-slider.css

nivo.css

MegaMenu.css

InstantSearch.css

slick.css

JCarousel.css

ajaxCart.css

QuickView.css

fine-uploader.min.css

style.css

theme.custom-1.css

platform.js

api.js

styles.css

jquery-3.3.1.min.js

jquery.validate.min.js

jquery.validate.unobtrusive.min.js

jquery-ui.min.js

jquery-migrate-3.0.1.min.js

iOS-12-array-reverse-fix.min.js

public.common.js

public.ajaxcart.js

public.countryselect.js

kendo.core.min.js

kendo.userevents.min.js

kendo.draganddrop.min.js

kendo.window.min.js

07d2234466fa991411aa9ffea.js

gtm.js