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Report Summary

  • 28

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    47% of other websites

  • 98

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 94% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    94% of websites

elephantlake.co.za

Elephant Lake Group, St Lucia accommodation operator

Page Load Speed

13.4 sec in total

First Response

3.4 sec

Resources Loaded

9.7 sec

Page Rendered

389 ms

About Website

Welcome to elephantlake.co.za homepage info - get ready to check Elephant Lake best content right away, or after learning these important things about elephantlake.co.za

Offering various accommodation in St Lucia - hotel, lodge & inn holidays. Also travel activities in iSimangaliso.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Elephantlake.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 3.4 sec and then it took 10 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 90% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

elephantlake.co.za performance score

28

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value8.7 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.4 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value15.2 s

1/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value730 ms

41/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.001

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value19.7 s

2/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.elephantlake.co.za

3382 ms

js

83 ms

elementor-icons.min.css

636 ms

frontend-lite.min.css

1285 ms

swiper.min.css

958 ms

Our browser made a total of 83 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 60% of them (50 requests) were addressed to the original Elephantlake.co.za, 17% (14 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 6% (5 requests) were made to Google.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (3.4 sec) belongs to the original domain Elephantlake.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 90.9 kB (7%)

Content Size

1.3 MB

After Optimization

1.2 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Elephantlake.co.za main page is 1.3 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 619.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 81.8 kB

  • Original 101.7 kB
  • After minification 98.0 kB
  • After compression 19.9 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 81.8 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 3.0 kB

  • Original 619.4 kB
  • After minification 616.4 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. Elephant Lake images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 3.9 kB

  • Original 431.3 kB
  • After minification 431.3 kB
  • After compression 427.3 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

-2%

Potential reduce by 2.2 kB

  • Original 100.9 kB
  • After minification 100.9 kB
  • After compression 98.7 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. Elephantlake.co.za has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 47 (73%)

Requests Now

64

After Optimization

17

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 64 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Elephant Lake. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 33 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 16 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

elephantlake.co.za accessibility score

98

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

Low

No form fields have multiple labels

Best Practices

elephantlake.co.za best practices score

83

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

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

elephantlake.co.za SEO score

100

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Elephantlake.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 Elephantlake.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 data is detected on the main page of Elephant Lake. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: