Report Summary

  • 15

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    27% of other websites

  • 79

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 48% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    19% of websites

  • 88

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    66% of websites

beachbums.co.za

Beach Bums International | Forever Chilled

Page Load Speed

17.9 sec in total

First Response

6 sec

Resources Loaded

11.3 sec

Page Rendered

498 ms

beachbums.co.za screenshot

About Website

Visit beachbums.co.za now to see the best up-to-date Beach Bums content for South Africa and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about beachbums.co.za

Beach Bums is an idyllic beach restaurant and events venue situated a short drive away from King Shaka International Airport.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Beachbums.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 6 sec and then it took 11.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 90% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

beachbums.co.za performance score

15

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.0 s

4/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value17.9 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value14.6 s

1/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value810 ms

36/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.41

24/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value16.4 s

5/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.beachbums.co.za

6022 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

535 ms

eff_bootstrap.min.css

784 ms

eff_style.css

536 ms

font-awesome.min.css

17 ms

Our browser made a total of 111 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 45% of them (50 requests) were addressed to the original Beachbums.co.za, 12% (13 requests) were made to Maps.googleapis.com and 12% (13 requests) were made to Scontent.cdninstagram.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (6 sec) belongs to the original domain Beachbums.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.4 MB (40%)

Content Size

3.5 MB

After Optimization

2.1 MB

In fact, the total size of Beachbums.co.za main page is 3.5 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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.7 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 36.7 kB

  • Original 46.9 kB
  • After minification 45.5 kB
  • After compression 10.2 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 36.7 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 45.3 kB

  • Original 1.7 MB
  • After minification 1.6 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. Beach Bums images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-70%

Potential reduce by 849.4 kB

  • Original 1.2 MB
  • After minification 1.2 MB
  • After compression 358.9 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 849.4 kB or 70% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 463.2 kB

  • Original 546.1 kB
  • After minification 449.6 kB
  • After compression 83.0 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. Beachbums.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 463.2 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 54 (55%)

Requests Now

98

After Optimization

44

The browser has sent 98 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Beach Bums. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 29 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 21 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

beachbums.co.za accessibility score

79

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.

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

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

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Lists do not contain only <li> elements and script supporting elements (<script> and <template>).

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

beachbums.co.za best practices score

58

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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

beachbums.co.za SEO score

88

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

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 Beachbums.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 Beachbums.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 description is not detected on the main page of Beach Bums. 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: