Report Summary

  • 40

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    60% of other websites

  • 81

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 52% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    19% of websites

  • 73

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    31% of websites

durbanvillegemeente.co.za

Tuis - Durbanville Gemeente

Page Load Speed

7.5 sec in total

First Response

2 sec

Resources Loaded

5.2 sec

Page Rendered

297 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Durbanvillegemeente.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 2 sec and then it took 5.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 75% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

durbanvillegemeente.co.za performance score

40

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.5 s

6/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.0 s

13/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value10.8 s

7/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value330 ms

76/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.202

61/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value9.3 s

31/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

durbanvillegemeente.co.za

2033 ms

jquery.js

514 ms

jquery-ui.js

1025 ms

swfobject.js

509 ms

dropdown.js

511 ms

Our browser made a total of 95 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 34% of them (32 requests) were addressed to the original Durbanvillegemeente.co.za, 26% (25 requests) were made to Static.xx.fbcdn.net and 21% (20 requests) were made to Scontent.xx.fbcdn.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2 sec) belongs to the original domain Durbanvillegemeente.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 631.9 kB (40%)

Content Size

1.6 MB

After Optimization

964.4 kB

In fact, the total size of Durbanvillegemeente.co.za main page is 1.6 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. 50% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 762.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-74%

Potential reduce by 59.4 kB

  • Original 80.5 kB
  • After minification 77.1 kB
  • After compression 21.1 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 59.4 kB or 74% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 29.8 kB

  • Original 720.6 kB
  • After minification 690.8 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. Durbanville Gemeente images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-68%

Potential reduce by 515.8 kB

  • Original 762.5 kB
  • After minification 739.3 kB
  • After compression 246.7 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 515.8 kB or 68% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 27.0 kB

  • Original 32.7 kB
  • After minification 27.6 kB
  • After compression 5.7 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. Durbanvillegemeente.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 27.0 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 47 (50%)

Requests Now

94

After Optimization

47

The browser has sent 94 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Durbanville Gemeente. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 27 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 10 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

durbanvillegemeente.co.za accessibility score

81

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

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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

durbanvillegemeente.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

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

durbanvillegemeente.co.za SEO score

73

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

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

    AF

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Durbanvillegemeente.co.za can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that Afrikaans is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Durbanvillegemeente.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 Durbanville Gemeente. 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: