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Report Summary

  • 42

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    61% of other websites

  • 72

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 37% of websites

  • 50

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    19% of websites

  • 69

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    28% of websites

beachandcity.com

Beach And City Accommodation | Self Catering Beach Accommodation in South Africa | Beach Cottage, Chalets, Villas, Flats & Apartments | Beach Bed & Br...

Page Load Speed

2.5 sec in total

First Response

352 ms

Resources Loaded

2 sec

Page Rendered

143 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Beachandcity.com page load time and found that the first response time was 352 ms and then it took 2.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 45% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

beachandcity.com performance score

42

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.2 s

79/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.1 s

76/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value12.4 s

3/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value12,030 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.033

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value24.8 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

beachandcity.com

352 ms

beachandcity.com

471 ms

coloursandstyles.css

109 ms

sbhcolour.css

216 ms

urlutils.js

317 ms

Our browser made a total of 30 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 87% of them (26 requests) were addressed to the original Beachandcity.com, 7% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 3% (1 request) were made to Maps.google.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (637 ms) belongs to the original domain Beachandcity.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 73.4 kB (21%)

Content Size

343.9 kB

After Optimization

270.4 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Beachandcity.com main page is 343.9 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. Javascripts take 140.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 57.3 kB

  • Original 66.7 kB
  • After minification 49.4 kB
  • After compression 9.4 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 17.3 kB, which is 26% of the original size. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 57.3 kB or 86% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 6.4 kB

  • Original 134.4 kB
  • After minification 128.0 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. Beach And City images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 9.3 kB

  • Original 140.3 kB
  • After minification 139.0 kB
  • After compression 130.9 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

-14%

Potential reduce by 344 B

  • Original 2.5 kB
  • After minification 2.5 kB
  • After compression 2.1 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. Beachandcity.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 344 B or 14% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 15 (56%)

Requests Now

27

After Optimization

12

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 27 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Beach And City. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 16 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

beachandcity.com accessibility score

72

Accessibility Issues

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

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

Best Practices

beachandcity.com best practices score

50

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

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

beachandcity.com SEO score

69

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

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

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