Report Summary

  • 56

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    73% of other websites

  • 93

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 82% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 84

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    53% of websites

capetownmagazine.com

Cape Town's Online Magazine: Discoveries. For Moments of Joy

Page Load Speed

78.3 sec in total

First Response

1.4 sec

Resources Loaded

55.7 sec

Page Rendered

21.1 sec

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Capetownmagazine.com page load time and found that the first response time was 1.4 sec and then it took 76.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is an excellent result, as only a small number of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

capetownmagazine.com performance score

56

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.3 s

75/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.9 s

79/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.8 s

84/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,700 ms

11/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value11.4 s

19/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.capetownmagazine.com

1425 ms

buttons.js

320 ms

jquery-1.4.2.min.js

1255 ms

ctm-site.js

1169 ms

ctm_util_v4.js

1157 ms

Our browser made a total of 233 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 58% of them (136 requests) were addressed to the original Capetownmagazine.com, 6% (15 requests) were made to Static.xx.fbcdn.net and 5% (11 requests) were made to Scontent-iad3-1.xx.fbcdn.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (11.8 sec) relates to the external source Static.xx.fbcdn.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.2 MB (23%)

Content Size

5.4 MB

After Optimization

4.1 MB

In fact, the total size of Capetownmagazine.com main page is 5.4 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. Images take 3.9 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 97.3 kB

  • Original 124.0 kB
  • After minification 114.9 kB
  • After compression 26.7 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 97.3 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 209.8 kB

  • Original 3.9 MB
  • After minification 3.7 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. Cape Town Magazine images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-68%

Potential reduce by 700.2 kB

  • Original 1.0 MB
  • After minification 989.8 kB
  • After compression 334.4 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 700.2 kB or 68% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 232.2 kB

  • Original 277.4 kB
  • After minification 257.1 kB
  • After compression 45.2 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. Capetownmagazine.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 232.2 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 101 (45%)

Requests Now

222

After Optimization

121

The browser has sent 222 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Cape Town Magazine. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 49 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

capetownmagazine.com accessibility score

93

Accessibility Issues

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

Best Practices

capetownmagazine.com 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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

capetownmagazine.com SEO score

84

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

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

Impact

Issue

High

robots.txt is not valid

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 Capetownmagazine.com 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 Capetownmagazine.com 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 Cape Town Magazine. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: