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Report Summary

  • 94

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    93% of other websites

  • 61

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 27% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 71

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    30% of websites

cheapflights-southafrica.co.za

Cheap Flights South Africa

Page Load Speed

1.2 sec in total

First Response

29 ms

Resources Loaded

800 ms

Page Rendered

348 ms

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Cheapflights-southafrica.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 29 ms and then it took 1.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 25% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

cheapflights-southafrica.co.za performance score

94

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.2 s

79/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.2 s

95/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value2.4 s

98/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value150 ms

95/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.009

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value3.8 s

89/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

cheapflights-southafrica.co.za

29 ms

cheapflights-southafrica.co.za

93 ms

shortcodes.css

118 ms

style.css

133 ms

blue.css

78 ms

Our browser made a total of 62 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 97% of them (60 requests) were addressed to the original Cheapflights-southafrica.co.za, 3% (2 requests) were made to Ssl.google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (311 ms) belongs to the original domain Cheapflights-southafrica.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 201.9 kB (46%)

Content Size

434.5 kB

After Optimization

232.6 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Cheapflights-southafrica.co.za main page is 434.5 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. 35% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 319.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 48.1 kB

  • Original 59.2 kB
  • After minification 57.6 kB
  • After compression 11.1 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 48.1 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-46%

Potential reduce by 147.0 kB

  • Original 319.1 kB
  • After minification 172.1 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. Obviously, Cheap Flights South Africa needs image optimization as it can save up to 147.0 kB or 46% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 34 B

  • Original 17.2 kB
  • After minification 17.2 kB
  • After compression 17.1 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

-17%

Potential reduce by 6.8 kB

  • Original 39.0 kB
  • After minification 39.0 kB
  • After compression 32.2 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. Cheapflights-southafrica.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 6.8 kB or 17% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 27 (57%)

Requests Now

47

After Optimization

20

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 47 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Cheap Flights South 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 12 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 8 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

cheapflights-southafrica.co.za accessibility score

61

Accessibility Issues

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

High

Some elements have a [tabindex] value greater than 0

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

cheapflights-southafrica.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

cheapflights-southafrica.co.za SEO score

71

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

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

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

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Cheap Flights South 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: