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Report Summary

  • 29

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    49% of other websites

  • 85

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 60% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    84% of websites

birdwood.co.za

Birdwood Guest House. Self Catering Accommodation - Arcadia - Hatfield

Page Load Speed

10.3 sec in total

First Response

2.5 sec

Resources Loaded

7 sec

Page Rendered

721 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Birdwood.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 2.5 sec and then it took 7.7 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

birdwood.co.za performance score

29

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.9 s

10/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.2 s

2/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value10.6 s

7/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value940 ms

29/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.087

93/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value7.8 s

44/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

birdwood.co.za

2549 ms

jquery-ui.min.css

924 ms

owl.carousel.css

280 ms

owl.transitions.css

545 ms

slide-animate.css

549 ms

Our browser made a total of 58 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 88% of them (51 requests) were addressed to the original Birdwood.co.za, 5% (3 requests) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com and 3% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.6 sec) belongs to the original domain Birdwood.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 942.5 kB (23%)

Content Size

4.2 MB

After Optimization

3.2 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Birdwood.co.za main page is 4.2 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 3.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 22.4 kB

  • Original 27.6 kB
  • After minification 26.8 kB
  • After compression 5.3 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 22.4 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 80.9 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. Birdwood images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-72%

Potential reduce by 383.6 kB

  • Original 535.5 kB
  • After minification 501.5 kB
  • After compression 151.9 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 383.6 kB or 72% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 455.7 kB

  • Original 526.2 kB
  • After minification 461.0 kB
  • After compression 70.5 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. Birdwood.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 455.7 kB or 87% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 32 (58%)

Requests Now

55

After Optimization

23

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 55 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Birdwood. 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 16 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

birdwood.co.za

birdwood.co.za

2549 ms

jquery-ui.min.css

jquery-ui.min.css

924 ms

owl.carousel.css

owl.carousel.css

280 ms

owl.transitions.css

owl.transitions.css

545 ms

slide-animate.css

slide-animate.css

549 ms

font-awesome.min.css

font-awesome.min.css

605 ms

animate.min.css

animate.min.css

601 ms

sppagebuilder.css

sppagebuilder.css

607 ms

css

css

25 ms

css

css

37 ms

css

css

45 ms

bootstrap.min.css

bootstrap.min.css

844 ms

font-awesome.min.css

font-awesome.min.css

912 ms

legacy.css

legacy.css

914 ms

template.css

template.css

1189 ms

preset1.css

preset1.css

908 ms

flat.css

flat.css

982 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

1419 ms

jquery-noconflict.js

jquery-noconflict.js

1184 ms

jquery-migrate.min.js

jquery-migrate.min.js

1178 ms

noconflict.js

noconflict.js

903 ms

jquery-ui.min.js

jquery-ui.min.js

1600 ms

site.min.js

site.min.js

919 ms

common.min.js

common.min.js

902 ms

jquery.cookie.js

jquery.cookie.js

902 ms

jquery.validate.min.js

jquery.validate.min.js

1196 ms

owl.carousel.min.js

owl.carousel.min.js

1175 ms

addon.slider.js

addon.slider.js

1256 ms

matchheight.js

matchheight.js

1179 ms

sppagebuilder.js

sppagebuilder.js

1729 ms

bootstrap.min.js

bootstrap.min.js

1455 ms

jquery.sticky.js

jquery.sticky.js

1457 ms

smoothscroll.js

smoothscroll.js

1459 ms

main.js

main.js

1535 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

137 ms

birdwood1.jpg

birdwood1.jpg

2214 ms

birdwood-logo-large-3.png

birdwood-logo-large-3.png

280 ms

birdwood-logo.png

birdwood-logo.png

305 ms

header-bg.png

header-bg.png

332 ms

resort-title-heading.png

resort-title-heading.png

304 ms

front1.jpg

front1.jpg

1092 ms

carou1.jpg

carou1.jpg

1168 ms

carou2.jpg

carou2.jpg

1114 ms

carou3.jpg

carou3.jpg

1124 ms

carou4.jpg

carou4.jpg

1429 ms

front2.jpg

front2.jpg

1451 ms

conference.jpg

conference.jpg

2206 ms

contactbg1.jpg

contactbg1.jpg

2515 ms

locationmap.jpg

locationmap.jpg

1668 ms

4-star-accommodation-pretoria.png

4-star-accommodation-pretoria.png

2032 ms

birdwood2.jpg

birdwood2.jpg

2523 ms

birdwood3.jpg

birdwood3.jpg

2551 ms

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2039 ms

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2015 ms

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1940 ms

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38 ms

Accessibility Review

birdwood.co.za accessibility score

85

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.

ARIA

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.

Impact

Issue

High

ARIA IDs are not unique

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

birdwood.co.za best practices score

67

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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

birdwood.co.za SEO score

93

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

Links do not have descriptive text

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

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 Birdwood.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 Birdwood.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

birdwood.co.za

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