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Report Summary

  • 97

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    94% of other websites

  • 42

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 19% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    20% of websites

  • 50

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    18% of websites

africaelephants.com

Africa Safaris: Tembe Elephant National Park and Safari Lodge

Page Load Speed

2.1 sec in total

First Response

538 ms

Resources Loaded

1.3 sec

Page Rendered

215 ms

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About Website

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African elephants safari park in Kwazulu-Natal offers eco-tourism, luxury accommodation and conference facilities. Wildlife, birding and water sports vacation.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Africaelephants.com page load time and found that the first response time was 538 ms and then it took 1.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 30% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

africaelephants.com performance score

97

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.3 s

98/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value1.5 s

100/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value2.0 s

99/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value170 ms

92/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value2.0 s

99/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

africaelephants.com

538 ms

cookie.js

100 ms

tembe.css

195 ms

id=1340525&size=1024&colors=32&referer=&java=false

67 ms

ga.js

31 ms

Our browser made a total of 33 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 91% of them (30 requests) were addressed to the original Africaelephants.com, 6% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 3% (1 request) were made to C2.thecounter.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (589 ms) belongs to the original domain Africaelephants.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 15.0 kB (15%)

Content Size

102.1 kB

After Optimization

87.1 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Africaelephants.com main page is 102.1 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. 20% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 62.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-71%

Potential reduce by 14.5 kB

  • Original 20.5 kB
  • After minification 19.8 kB
  • After compression 6.0 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 14.5 kB or 71% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 62.2 kB
  • After minification 62.2 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. Africa Elephant S images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 201 B

  • Original 17.9 kB
  • After minification 17.9 kB
  • After compression 17.7 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-21%

Potential reduce by 294 B

  • Original 1.4 kB
  • After minification 1.4 kB
  • After compression 1.1 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. Africaelephants.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 294 B or 21% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 6 (21%)

Requests Now

29

After Optimization

23

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 29 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Africa Elephant S. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

africaelephants.com

africaelephants.com

538 ms

cookie.js

cookie.js

100 ms

tembe.css

tembe.css

195 ms

id=1340525&size=1024&colors=32&referer=&java=false

id=1340525&size=1024&colors=32&referer=&java=false

67 ms

ga.js

ga.js

31 ms

white.gif

white.gif

99 ms

Count.cgi

Count.cgi

100 ms

top_left.gif

top_left.gif

196 ms

top_right.gif

top_right.gif

194 ms

elephants_bathing.jpg

elephants_bathing.jpg

195 ms

home.gif

home.gif

196 ms

directbooking.gif

directbooking.gif

196 ms

accommodation_icon.gif

accommodation_icon.gif

197 ms

info.gif

info.gif

293 ms

travel_icon.gif

travel_icon.gif

293 ms

rates.gif

rates.gif

293 ms

savings.gif

savings.gif

298 ms

roadmap_icon.gif

roadmap_icon.gif

297 ms

speaker.gif

speaker.gif

297 ms

mossi_small.gif

mossi_small.gif

392 ms

baby_elephant.jpg

baby_elephant.jpg

392 ms

famwater.jpg

famwater.jpg

485 ms

luxury_tent.jpg

luxury_tent.jpg

394 ms

camp_fire.jpg

camp_fire.jpg

395 ms

sangoma.jpg

sangoma.jpg

399 ms

conferences.jpg

conferences.jpg

490 ms

elecam01.gif

elecam01.gif

489 ms

gallery.jpg

gallery.jpg

493 ms

tembe1.gif

tembe1.gif

500 ms

botttom_left.gif

botttom_left.gif

500 ms

bottom_right.gif

bottom_right.gif

584 ms

Count.cgi

Count.cgi

589 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

13 ms

Accessibility Review

africaelephants.com accessibility score

42

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.

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

africaelephants.com best practices score

58

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

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

africaelephants.com SEO score

50

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

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Crawling and Indexing

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

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    WINDOWS-1252

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Africaelephants.com 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 Africaelephants.com main page’s claimed encoding is windows-1252. 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

africaelephants.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Africa Elephant S. 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: