Report Summary

  • 59

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    75% of other websites

  • 86

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 62% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 83

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    46% of websites

capechamber.co.za

Cape Chamber of Commerce & Industry

Page Load Speed

9 sec in total

First Response

1.8 sec

Resources Loaded

6.6 sec

Page Rendered

608 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Capechamber.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 1.8 sec and then it took 7.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 80% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

capechamber.co.za performance score

59

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.9 s

53/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.6 s

3/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.2 s

59/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value190 ms

91/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value7.5 s

48/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

capechamber.co.za

1787 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

255 ms

dashicons.min.css

336 ms

espresso_default.css

261 ms

jquery.qtip.css

183 ms

Our browser made a total of 160 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 70% of them (112 requests) were addressed to the original Capechamber.co.za, 9% (15 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 6% (10 requests) were made to Static.xx.fbcdn.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.8 sec) relates to the external source Corp.capechamber.auric-consulting.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 2.1 MB (61%)

Content Size

3.4 MB

After Optimization

1.3 MB

In fact, the total size of Capechamber.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. 85% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. CSS take 1.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 168.9 kB

  • Original 212.5 kB
  • After minification 196.6 kB
  • After compression 43.5 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 168.9 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 35.3 kB

  • Original 857.1 kB
  • After minification 821.8 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. Cape Chamber images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-74%

Potential reduce by 776.3 kB

  • Original 1.0 MB
  • After minification 864.4 kB
  • After compression 270.8 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 776.3 kB or 74% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 1.1 MB

  • Original 1.3 MB
  • After minification 1.2 MB
  • After compression 171.5 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. Capechamber.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 1.1 MB or 86% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 84 (59%)

Requests Now

142

After Optimization

58

The browser has sent 142 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Cape Chamber. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 54 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 32 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

capechamber.co.za accessibility score

86

Accessibility Issues

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

[role]s do not have all required [aria-*] attributes

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

capechamber.co.za best practices score

83

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

SEO Factors

capechamber.co.za SEO score

83

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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 Capechamber.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 Capechamber.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 Cape Chamber. 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: