Report Summary

  • 44

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    63% of other websites

  • 84

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 57% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    84% of websites

knightfrank.co.za

Commercial & Residential Estate Agents in South Africa | Knight Frank

Page Load Speed

2.4 sec in total

First Response

177 ms

Resources Loaded

1.8 sec

Page Rendered

418 ms

knightfrank.co.za screenshot

About Website

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

Knight Frank is a leading independent real estate consultancy in South Africa. Search and find the perfect home, property investment or commercial property or speak to us today.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Knightfrank.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 177 ms and then it took 2.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 40% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

knightfrank.co.za performance score

44

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.3 s

40/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value15.8 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.3 s

58/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value530 ms

56/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.005

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value11.2 s

20/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

knightfrank.co.za

177 ms

www.knightfrank.co.za

173 ms

app.min.css

137 ms

jquery.min.js

181 ms

built.js

24 ms

Our browser made a total of 30 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 60% of them (18 requests) were addressed to the original Knightfrank.co.za, 27% (8 requests) were made to Content.knightfrank.com and 7% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (791 ms) belongs to the original domain Knightfrank.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 771.7 kB (30%)

Content Size

2.6 MB

After Optimization

1.8 MB

In fact, the total size of Knightfrank.co.za main page is 2.6 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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.6 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 42.3 kB

  • Original 53.6 kB
  • After minification 43.9 kB
  • After compression 11.2 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 9.6 kB, which is 18% of the original size. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 42.3 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 33.7 kB

  • Original 1.6 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. Knight Frank images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-73%

Potential reduce by 410.3 kB

  • Original 561.0 kB
  • After minification 518.9 kB
  • After compression 150.8 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 410.3 kB or 73% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 285.4 kB

  • Original 370.5 kB
  • After minification 370.2 kB
  • After compression 85.1 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. Knightfrank.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 285.4 kB or 77% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 3 (14%)

Requests Now

21

After Optimization

18

The browser has sent 21 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Knight Frank. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 4 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

knightfrank.co.za accessibility score

84

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

button, link, and menuitem elements do not have accessible names.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

knightfrank.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

knightfrank.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

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

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 Knightfrank.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 Knightfrank.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 Knight Frank. 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: