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Report Summary

  • 13

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    25% of other websites

  • 83

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 56% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 90

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    68% of websites

southhill.co.za

Boutique Wine Farm in Elgin | South Hill Vineyards

Page Load Speed

3.5 sec in total

First Response

871 ms

Resources Loaded

2.5 sec

Page Rendered

131 ms

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About Website

Click here to check amazing South Hill content for South Africa. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about southhill.co.za

South Hill Vineyards is a boutique wine farm in the Elgin Valley of Grabouw and offers, accomodation, a wedding venue and restaurant.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Southhill.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 871 ms and then it took 2.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

southhill.co.za performance score

13

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.2 s

20/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value15.2 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value12.7 s

3/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,390 ms

16/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.381

27/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value11.4 s

19/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

southhill.co.za

871 ms

southhill.css

530 ms

logo.gif

804 ms

vineyards-off.gif

554 ms

venue-off.gif

553 ms

Our browser made a total of 21 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 90% of them (19 requests) were addressed to the original Southhill.co.za, 10% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.4 sec) belongs to the original domain Southhill.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 9.8 kB (7%)

Content Size

145.5 kB

After Optimization

135.7 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Southhill.co.za main page is 145.5 kB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. Only 10% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 128.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-68%

Potential reduce by 6.5 kB

  • Original 9.6 kB
  • After minification 9.2 kB
  • After compression 3.1 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 6.5 kB or 68% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 1.6 kB

  • Original 128.1 kB
  • After minification 126.5 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. South Hill images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-14%

Potential reduce by 971 B

  • Original 6.8 kB
  • After minification 6.8 kB
  • After compression 5.9 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 971 B or 14% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-71%

Potential reduce by 665 B

  • Original 934 B
  • After minification 687 B
  • After compression 269 B

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. Southhill.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 665 B or 71% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

20

After Optimization

20

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 20 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of South Hill. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Network Requests Diagram

southhill.co.za

southhill.co.za

871 ms

southhill.css

southhill.css

530 ms

logo.gif

logo.gif

804 ms

vineyards-off.gif

vineyards-off.gif

554 ms

venue-off.gif

venue-off.gif

553 ms

accommodation-off.gif

accommodation-off.gif

552 ms

gallery-off.gif

gallery-off.gif

560 ms

wedding-banner.jpg

wedding-banner.jpg

1324 ms

video-banner.jpg

video-banner.jpg

1341 ms

vt-banner.jpg

vt-banner.jpg

1377 ms

wo-banner.jpg

wo-banner.jpg

1390 ms

stc.jpg

stc.jpg

1105 ms

urchin.js

urchin.js

6 ms

fb_logo_home.jpg

fb_logo_home.jpg

823 ms

wine-guild-logo.jpg

wine-guild-logo.jpg

1095 ms

elgin-valley.jpg

elgin-valley.jpg

1129 ms

bg-top.gif

bg-top.gif

1055 ms

bg-base.gif

bg-base.gif

1074 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

3 ms

vineyards-on.gif

vineyards-on.gif

275 ms

venue-on.gif

venue-on.gif

279 ms

Accessibility Review

southhill.co.za accessibility score

83

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

southhill.co.za best practices score

83

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

southhill.co.za SEO score

90

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Southhill.co.za can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English 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 Southhill.co.za main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

southhill.co.za

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