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Report Summary

  • 1

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    19% of other websites

  • 88

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 68% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 84

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    52% of websites

ashanti.co.za

Backpackers Cape Town | Cape Town Hostels & Lodge | Ashanti

Page Load Speed

37.1 sec in total

First Response

8.9 sec

Resources Loaded

27.6 sec

Page Rendered

539 ms

ashanti.co.za screenshot

About Website

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

Top rated backpackers in Cape Town with a range of accommodation options from dorms to private rooms. Swimming pool, Wi-Fi & more available.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Ashanti.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 8.9 sec and then it took 28.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 95% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

ashanti.co.za performance score

1

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value10.1 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value20.9 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value33.3 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,300 ms

2/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.87

4/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value21.5 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

ashanti.co.za

8944 ms

js

88 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

809 ms

style.min.css

39 ms

public.min.css

792 ms

Our browser made a total of 176 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 90% of them (158 requests) were addressed to the original Ashanti.co.za, 2% (4 requests) were made to Tripadvisor.com and 2% (3 requests) were made to Connect.facebook.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (8.9 sec) belongs to the original domain Ashanti.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 254.8 kB (15%)

Content Size

1.7 MB

After Optimization

1.5 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Ashanti.co.za main page is 1.7 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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 763.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 197.2 kB

  • Original 239.3 kB
  • After minification 234.0 kB
  • After compression 42.1 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 197.2 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 47.8 kB

  • Original 763.2 kB
  • After minification 715.4 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. Ashanti images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 2.5 kB

  • Original 438.4 kB
  • After minification 438.4 kB
  • After compression 435.9 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

-3%

Potential reduce by 7.4 kB

  • Original 288.4 kB
  • After minification 288.1 kB
  • After compression 281.0 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. Ashanti.co.za has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 122 (72%)

Requests Now

169

After Optimization

47

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 169 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Ashanti. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 105 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 19 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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Accessibility Review

ashanti.co.za accessibility score

88

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

ashanti.co.za best practices score

92

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

SEO Factors

ashanti.co.za SEO score

84

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

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

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

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

ashanti.co.za

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of Ashanti. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: