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Report Summary

  • 15

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    27% of other websites

  • 79

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 47% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 89

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    66% of websites

sa-airlines.co.za

Cheap Flights South Africa Bookings & Specials | SA Airlines

Page Load Speed

7.5 sec in total

First Response

876 ms

Resources Loaded

6.2 sec

Page Rendered

443 ms

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Sa-airlines.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 876 ms and then it took 6.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 80% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

sa-airlines.co.za performance score

15

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value7.9 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value10.0 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value19.9 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,530 ms

1/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.004

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value34.1 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

sa-airlines.co.za

876 ms

www.sa-airlines.co.za

872 ms

www.sa-airlines.co.za

1259 ms

bootstrap.min.css

628 ms

owl.carousel.min.css

922 ms

Our browser made a total of 84 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 43% of them (36 requests) were addressed to the original Sa-airlines.co.za, 15% (13 requests) were made to Travelstart.co.za and 6% (5 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.8 sec) belongs to the original domain Sa-airlines.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 36.5 kB (1%)

Content Size

3.6 MB

After Optimization

3.5 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Sa-airlines.co.za main page is 3.6 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. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 3.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 29.0 kB

  • Original 37.2 kB
  • After minification 32.0 kB
  • After compression 8.2 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 5.2 kB, which is 14% 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 29.0 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 2.8 kB

  • Original 254.2 kB
  • After minification 251.5 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. SA Airlines images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 1.9 kB

  • Original 3.2 MB
  • After minification 3.2 MB
  • After compression 3.2 MB

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 2.9 kB

  • Original 138.1 kB
  • After minification 138.1 kB
  • After compression 135.3 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. Sa-airlines.co.za has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 39 (54%)

Requests Now

72

After Optimization

33

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 72 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of SA Airlines. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 27 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 14 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

sa-airlines.co.za accessibility score

79

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Best Practices

sa-airlines.co.za best practices score

75

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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

sa-airlines.co.za SEO score

89

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

robots.txt is not valid

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 Sa-airlines.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 Sa-airlines.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 SA Airlines. 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: