Report Summary

  • 34

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    54% of other websites

  • 88

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 68% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 98

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    92% of websites

writegear.co.za

Write GEAR - Fountain Pens, Pencils, Ballpoint Pens & other Great Stationery

Page Load Speed

2.9 sec in total

First Response

488 ms

Resources Loaded

1.9 sec

Page Rendered

490 ms

writegear.co.za screenshot

About Website

Welcome to writegear.co.za homepage info - get ready to check Write GEAR best content for South Africa right away, or after learning these important things about writegear.co.za

Write GEAR is a specialist pen and pencil store that brings you some of the biggest and best brands from around the World. Some of the great brands include: Lamy, Pilot, Kaweco, Sailor, Platinum, Diam...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Writegear.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 488 ms and then it took 2.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 45% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

writegear.co.za performance score

34

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.5 s

35/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.7 s

57/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.3 s

42/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,450 ms

5/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.195

63/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value15.0 s

7/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

writegear.co.za

488 ms

flick.css

154 ms

writegear.co.za

234 ms

styles.css

237 ms

uaf.css

234 ms

Our browser made a total of 75 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 80% of them (60 requests) were addressed to the original Writegear.co.za, 5% (4 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 5% (4 requests) were made to Wordpress.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (736 ms) belongs to the original domain Writegear.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 559.1 kB (57%)

Content Size

978.2 kB

After Optimization

419.1 kB

In fact, the total size of Writegear.co.za main page is 978.2 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. 55% of websites need less resources to load. HTML takes 505.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-89%

Potential reduce by 450.6 kB

  • Original 505.7 kB
  • After minification 494.5 kB
  • After compression 55.2 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 450.6 kB or 89% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-47%

Potential reduce by 34.2 kB

  • Original 72.3 kB
  • After minification 38.1 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, Write GEAR needs image optimization as it can save up to 34.2 kB or 47% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-15%

Potential reduce by 44.0 kB

  • Original 301.1 kB
  • After minification 301.1 kB
  • After compression 257.1 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 44.0 kB or 15% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-31%

Potential reduce by 30.3 kB

  • Original 99.1 kB
  • After minification 99.0 kB
  • After compression 68.8 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. Writegear.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 30.3 kB or 31% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 61 (90%)

Requests Now

68

After Optimization

7

The browser has sent 68 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Write GEAR. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 48 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 15 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

writegear.co.za accessibility score

88

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.

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

writegear.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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

writegear.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

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

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

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