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Report Summary

  • 37

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    56% of other websites

  • 68

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 33% of websites

  • 50

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    19% of websites

  • 58

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    21% of websites

fishingdirectory.co.za

Fishing Directory - Directory For Everything Fishing Related

Page Load Speed

24.1 sec in total

First Response

657 ms

Resources Loaded

23.2 sec

Page Rendered

224 ms

About Website

Visit fishingdirectory.co.za now to see the best up-to-date Fishing Directory content and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about fishingdirectory.co.za

Directory for everything Fishing related, Fishing Directory is the one stop source for Bass fishing, Carp fishing, Extreme fishing, Fly Fishing, Fishing Recipes, Fishing Knots, Fishing Clubs, Fishing ...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Fishingdirectory.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 657 ms and then it took 23.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 95% of websites can load faster. Unfortunately, there was 1 request timeout, which can generally increase the web page load time, as the browser stays idle while waiting for website response.

Performance Metrics

fishingdirectory.co.za performance score

37

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.5 s

96/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.6 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.9 s

23/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value890 ms

32/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.117

85/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value10.0 s

27/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

fishingdirectory.co.za

657 ms

css.css

259 ms

adsbygoogle.js

111 ms

show_ads.js

77 ms

jokes.php

1753 ms

Our browser made a total of 58 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 21% of them (12 requests) were addressed to the original Fishingdirectory.co.za, 17% (10 requests) were made to Southafricanweather.co.za and 14% (8 requests) were made to Googleads.g.doubleclick.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (19.8 sec) relates to the external source Kalahari.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 180.2 kB (24%)

Content Size

745.7 kB

After Optimization

565.4 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Fishingdirectory.co.za main page is 745.7 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. 45% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 484.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 41.9 kB

  • Original 55.7 kB
  • After minification 52.2 kB
  • After compression 13.8 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 41.9 kB or 75% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 9.7 kB

  • Original 203.0 kB
  • After minification 193.3 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. Fishing Directory images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-26%

Potential reduce by 128.3 kB

  • Original 484.9 kB
  • After minification 484.9 kB
  • After compression 356.6 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 128.3 kB or 26% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-15%

Potential reduce by 292 B

  • Original 2.0 kB
  • After minification 2.0 kB
  • After compression 1.7 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. Fishingdirectory.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 292 B or 15% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 19 (42%)

Requests Now

45

After Optimization

26

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 45 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Fishing Directory. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 14 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

fishingdirectory.co.za accessibility score

68

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

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

fishingdirectory.co.za 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

Page has valid source maps

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

fishingdirectory.co.za SEO score

58

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

High

Document uses plugins

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 Fishingdirectory.co.za 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 Fishingdirectory.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 Fishing Directory. 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: