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Report Summary

  • 62

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    76% of other websites

  • 86

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 61% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

4x4driveafrica.com

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Page Load Speed

4 sec in total

First Response

1 sec

Resources Loaded

2.5 sec

Page Rendered

459 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed 4x4driveafrica.com page load time and found that the first response time was 1 sec and then it took 2.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 55% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

4x4driveafrica.com performance score

62

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.7 s

30/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.6 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.6 s

52/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value60 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value4.3 s

84/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.4x4driveafrica.com

1016 ms

webfont.js

16 ms

style.min.css

281 ms

jquery.fancybox.css

213 ms

datepicker.css

218 ms

Our browser made a total of 50 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 74% of them (37 requests) were addressed to the original 4x4driveafrica.com, 12% (6 requests) were made to Avonselfdrive.info and 10% (5 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1 sec) belongs to the original domain 4x4driveafrica.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 132.9 kB (9%)

Content Size

1.4 MB

After Optimization

1.3 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of 4x4driveafrica.com main page is 1.4 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. 40% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 65.2 kB

  • Original 79.5 kB
  • After minification 77.9 kB
  • After compression 14.3 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 65.2 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 62.9 kB

  • Original 1.3 MB
  • After minification 1.2 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. 4x4 Drive Africa images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 2.2 kB

  • Original 53.7 kB
  • After minification 53.7 kB
  • After compression 51.5 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-9%

Potential reduce by 2.6 kB

  • Original 28.9 kB
  • After minification 28.9 kB
  • After compression 26.4 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. 4x4driveafrica.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 12 (32%)

Requests Now

38

After Optimization

26

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 38 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of 4x4 Drive Africa. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 9 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

www.4x4driveafrica.com

www.4x4driveafrica.com

1016 ms

webfont.js

webfont.js

16 ms

style.min.css

style.min.css

281 ms

jquery.fancybox.css

jquery.fancybox.css

213 ms

datepicker.css

datepicker.css

218 ms

style.css

style.css

215 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

286 ms

jquery-migrate.min.js

jquery-migrate.min.js

231 ms

jquery.textPattern.js

jquery.textPattern.js

299 ms

jquery.placeholder.min.js

jquery.placeholder.min.js

299 ms

jquery.fancybox.js

jquery.fancybox.js

308 ms

jquery.fadeSlider.js

jquery.fadeSlider.js

309 ms

jquery.hoverIntent.js

jquery.hoverIntent.js

350 ms

jquery.custom.js

jquery.custom.js

353 ms

css

css

42 ms

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28 ms

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mountain-gorilla-trekking-lake-kivu.jpg

30 ms

pattern_1.jpg

pattern_1.jpg

210 ms

select_bg.png

select_bg.png

75 ms

self-drive.jpg

self-drive.jpg

279 ms

image_4.jpg

image_4.jpg

278 ms

image_6.jpg

image_6.jpg

279 ms

main_slider_arrows.png

main_slider_arrows.png

76 ms

header_bg.png

header_bg.png

147 ms

divider.png

divider.png

146 ms

testimonials_item_bg.png

testimonials_item_bg.png

219 ms

background_1.jpg

background_1.jpg

352 ms

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281 ms

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colored_icons.png

289 ms

AGS1.jpg

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348 ms

gorilla-safaris.jpg

gorilla-safaris.jpg

349 ms

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349 ms

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button_bg.png

352 ms

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comments_icon.png

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495 ms

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car-hire-f.png

20 ms

short.jpg

short.jpg

19 ms

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19 ms

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19 ms

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19 ms

Accessibility Review

4x4driveafrica.com accessibility score

86

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

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

4x4driveafrica.com best practices score

67

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

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

4x4driveafrica.com SEO score

86

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

Links do not have descriptive text

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 4x4driveafrica.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 4x4driveafrica.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

4x4driveafrica.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of 4x4 Drive Africa. 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: