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Report Summary

  • 36

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    55% of other websites

  • 74

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 40% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 82

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    44% of websites

capetown-westerncape.gumtree.co.za

Buy & Sell On Gumtree: South Africa‘s Favourite Free Classifieds

Page Load Speed

2 sec in total

First Response

188 ms

Resources Loaded

1.4 sec

Page Rendered

425 ms

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Capetown-westerncape.gumtree.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 188 ms and then it took 1.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 40% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

capetown-westerncape.gumtree.co.za performance score

36

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.6 s

33/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.7 s

58/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value11.4 s

5/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,800 ms

10/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value26.0 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.gumtree.co.za

188 ms

Main.min.css

20 ms

HomePage.min.css

28 ms

Main_en_ZA.min.js

114 ms

HomePage_en_ZA.min.js

112 ms

Our browser made a total of 39 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Capetown-westerncape.gumtree.co.za, 15% (6 requests) were made to Inc.t9.classistatic.com and 8% (3 requests) were made to Stats.g.doubleclick.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (302 ms) relates to the external source Googletagmanager.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 583.8 kB (64%)

Content Size

907.4 kB

After Optimization

323.6 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Capetown-westerncape.gumtree.co.za main page is 907.4 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. 50% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 378.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 110.1 kB

  • Original 133.6 kB
  • After minification 117.0 kB
  • After compression 23.5 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 16.6 kB, which is 12% 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 110.1 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 481 B

  • Original 79.3 kB
  • After minification 78.8 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. Capetown Westerncape Gumtree images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-57%

Potential reduce by 214.6 kB

  • Original 378.6 kB
  • After minification 378.4 kB
  • After compression 164.1 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 214.6 kB or 57% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 258.7 kB

  • Original 315.9 kB
  • After minification 313.9 kB
  • After compression 57.2 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. Capetown-westerncape.gumtree.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 258.7 kB or 82% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 12 (32%)

Requests Now

37

After Optimization

25

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 37 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Capetown Westerncape Gumtree. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 13 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

capetown-westerncape.gumtree.co.za accessibility score

74

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

[aria-hidden="true"] elements contain focusable descendents

High

ARIA input fields do not have accessible names

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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.

Best practices

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

capetown-westerncape.gumtree.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

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

capetown-westerncape.gumtree.co.za SEO score

82

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 Capetown-westerncape.gumtree.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 Capetown-westerncape.gumtree.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 Capetown Westerncape Gumtree. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: