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Report Summary

  • 67

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    79% of other websites

  • 42

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 19% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 77

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    36% of websites

africanshores.co.za

Zanzibar Holiday Packages Specials | Zanzibar

Page Load Speed

6.3 sec in total

First Response

1 sec

Resources Loaded

4.7 sec

Page Rendered

532 ms

africanshores.co.za screenshot

About Website

Welcome to africanshores.co.za homepage info - get ready to check Africanshores best content for South Africa right away, or after learning these important things about africanshores.co.za

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Key Findings

We analyzed Africanshores.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 1 sec and then it took 5.2 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

africanshores.co.za performance score

67

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.3 s

18/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.3 s

42/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.5 s

27/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value90 ms

99/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.036

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value5.3 s

72/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

africanshores.co.za

1049 ms

CSS2.css

363 ms

zerogrid.css

717 ms

style.css

719 ms

responsive.css

721 ms

Our browser made a total of 53 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 74% of them (39 requests) were addressed to the original Africanshores.co.za, 17% (9 requests) were made to Static.xx.fbcdn.net and 4% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.5 sec) belongs to the original domain Africanshores.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 58.7 kB (7%)

Content Size

798.7 kB

After Optimization

740.1 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Africanshores.co.za main page is 798.7 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. 55% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 693.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 37.6 kB

  • Original 46.0 kB
  • After minification 44.2 kB
  • After compression 8.4 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 37.6 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 18.6 kB

  • Original 693.9 kB
  • After minification 675.4 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. Africanshores images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 1.2 kB

  • Original 53.1 kB
  • After minification 53.1 kB
  • After compression 51.9 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-23%

Potential reduce by 1.3 kB

  • Original 5.7 kB
  • After minification 5.7 kB
  • After compression 4.4 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. Africanshores.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 1.3 kB or 23% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 19 (37%)

Requests Now

51

After Optimization

32

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 51 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Africanshores. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 10 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

africanshores.co.za

africanshores.co.za

1049 ms

CSS2.css

CSS2.css

363 ms

zerogrid.css

zerogrid.css

717 ms

style.css

style.css

719 ms

responsive.css

responsive.css

721 ms

responsiveslides.css

responsiveslides.css

720 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

1079 ms

responsiveslides.js

responsiveslides.js

723 ms

ga.js

ga.js

8 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

12 ms

Phone.gif

Phone.gif

68 ms

facebook.png

facebook.png

1093 ms

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afri3.jpg

1078 ms

topbg.png

topbg.png

363 ms

as5.gif

as5.gif

367 ms

lines2.png

lines2.png

365 ms

star.png

star.png

365 ms

LagunaBeach.jpg

LagunaBeach.jpg

367 ms

IC-Beach.jpg

IC-Beach.jpg

1078 ms

LeMeridien1.jpg

LeMeridien1.jpg

1084 ms

thandeka_lodge_-_campfire.jpg

thandeka_lodge_-_campfire.jpg

1438 ms

IvoryTreeGameLodge.jpg

IvoryTreeGameLodge.jpg

731 ms

Nungubane1.jpg

Nungubane1.jpg

730 ms

Tshukudu5.jpg

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1090 ms

Mabula1.jpg

Mabula1.jpg

1090 ms

Clifftop1.jpg

Clifftop1.jpg

1440 ms

MapenziPool.jpg

MapenziPool.jpg

1439 ms

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1800 ms

SeaCliffResort.jpg

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1451 ms

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1808 ms

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1803 ms

ElephantCamp1.jpg

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1802 ms

Inhaca_Restaurante4.jpg

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1807 ms

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1811 ms

PestanaBaz1.jpg

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2516 ms

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2162 ms

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2169 ms

marker-1.gif

marker-1.gif

2169 ms

linkedin.png

linkedin.png

1050 ms

twitter.png

twitter.png

1052 ms

africastaylogo.png

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1414 ms

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90 ms

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35 ms

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3 ms

Accessibility Review

africanshores.co.za 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.

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

High

<object> elements do not have alternate text

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Lists do not contain only <li> elements and script supporting elements (<script> and <template>).

High

List items (<li>) are not contained within <ul> or <ol> parent elements.

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

africanshores.co.za best practices score

67

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

africanshores.co.za SEO score

77

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

High

Document uses plugins

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

    WINDOWS-1252

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Africanshores.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 Africanshores.co.za 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

africanshores.co.za

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