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Report Summary

  • 45

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    64% of other websites

  • 96

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 88% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 90

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    68% of websites

wood4africa.co.za

Engineered Wooden Flooring, Decks, Pergolas, Staircases, Cladding | African Hardwood

Page Load Speed

8.8 sec in total

First Response

763 ms

Resources Loaded

7.3 sec

Page Rendered

732 ms

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About Website

Visit wood4africa.co.za now to see the best up-to-date Wood 4 Africa content and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about wood4africa.co.za

Over 15 years experience in the timber in the timber industry, manufacturing of engineered wooden floors, decking, bespoke furniture & custom made joinery for new & remodelled houses.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Wood4africa.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 763 ms and then it took 8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 85% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

wood4africa.co.za performance score

45

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.6 s

5/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value10.6 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value13.7 s

2/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value130 ms

96/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.001

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value14.2 s

9/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

wood4africa.co.za

763 ms

www.africanhardwood.co.za

2601 ms

style.min.css

496 ms

theme.min.css

737 ms

header-footer.min.css

742 ms

Our browser made a total of 78 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Wood4africa.co.za, 78% (61 requests) were made to Africanhardwood.co.za and 19% (15 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.7 sec) relates to the external source Africanhardwood.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 240.5 kB (7%)

Content Size

3.4 MB

After Optimization

3.2 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Wood4africa.co.za main page is 3.4 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. 50% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 3.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 96.0 kB

  • Original 111.4 kB
  • After minification 106.4 kB
  • After compression 15.4 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 96.0 kB or 86% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 143.8 kB

  • Original 3.1 MB
  • After minification 3.0 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. Wood 4 Africa images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 156 B

  • Original 128.8 kB
  • After minification 128.8 kB
  • After compression 128.6 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

-1%

Potential reduce by 625 B

  • Original 63.8 kB
  • After minification 63.8 kB
  • After compression 63.2 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. Wood4africa.co.za has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 37 (63%)

Requests Now

59

After Optimization

22

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 59 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Wood 4 Africa. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 18 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 21 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

wood4africa.co.za

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2601 ms

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Accessibility Review

wood4africa.co.za accessibility score

96

Accessibility Issues

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

wood4africa.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

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

wood4africa.co.za SEO score

90

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

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Wood4africa.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 Wood4africa.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

wood4africa.co.za

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Wood 4 Africa. 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: