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Report Summary

  • 18

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    35% of other websites

  • 95

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 87% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    82% of websites

  • 98

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    92% of websites

vanguardcollection.co.za

The Vanguard Flooring Collection - Luxury flooring supplier in South Africa

Page Load Speed

9.1 sec in total

First Response

3 sec

Resources Loaded

5.4 sec

Page Rendered

735 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Vanguardcollection.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 3 sec and then it took 6.1 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

vanguardcollection.co.za performance score

18

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.9 s

24/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value16.4 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value11.5 s

5/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value4,740 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.054

98/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value15.2 s

7/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

vanguardcollection.co.za

3025 ms

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Our browser made a total of 63 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 30% of them (19 requests) were addressed to the original Vanguardcollection.co.za, 49% (31 requests) were made to Hb.wpmucdn.com and 10% (6 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (3 sec) belongs to the original domain Vanguardcollection.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 81.5 kB (35%)

Content Size

232.6 kB

After Optimization

151.1 kB

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Vanguardcollection.co.za main page is 232.6 kB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 163.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by -8 B

  • Original 0 B

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 web page is already compressed.

Image Optimization

-49%

Potential reduce by 80.5 kB

  • Original 163.1 kB
  • After minification 82.6 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, Vanguard Collection needs image optimization as it can save up to 80.5 kB or 49% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 161 B

  • Original 51.7 kB
  • After minification 51.7 kB
  • After compression 51.6 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

-5%

Potential reduce by 839 B

  • Original 17.8 kB
  • After minification 17.8 kB
  • After compression 16.9 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. Vanguardcollection.co.za has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 39 (87%)

Requests Now

45

After Optimization

6

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 45 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Vanguard Collection. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 19 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 22 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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Accessibility Review

vanguardcollection.co.za accessibility score

95

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

vanguardcollection.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

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

vanguardcollection.co.za SEO score

98

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Vanguardcollection.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 Vanguardcollection.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

vanguardcollection.co.za

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Vanguard Collection. 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: