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Report Summary

  • 26

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    45% of other websites

  • 78

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 45% of websites

  • 50

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    19% of websites

  • 88

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    65% of websites

southafricaexplorer.co.za

Homepage - South African Attractions Activities Events Sightseeing

Page Load Speed

7.1 sec in total

First Response

1.3 sec

Resources Loaded

5.3 sec

Page Rendered

482 ms

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Southafricaexplorer.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 1.3 sec and then it took 5.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 75% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

southafricaexplorer.co.za performance score

26

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.6 s

2/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.6 s

8/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value11.6 s

5/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value750 ms

39/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.171

70/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value13.1 s

12/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

southafricaexplorer.co.za

1302 ms

main.css

1437 ms

jquery-1.11.2.min.js

1949 ms

jquery-ui.js

3449 ms

jquery-ui.css

1491 ms

Our browser made a total of 37 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 51% of them (19 requests) were addressed to the original Southafricaexplorer.co.za, 14% (5 requests) were made to Weather.co.za and 5% (2 requests) were made to Maps.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (3.4 sec) belongs to the original domain Southafricaexplorer.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 565.3 kB (68%)

Content Size

825.5 kB

After Optimization

260.2 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Southafricaexplorer.co.za main page is 825.5 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. 40% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 698.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 21.6 kB

  • Original 27.9 kB
  • After minification 24.7 kB
  • After compression 6.2 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 3.1 kB, which is 11% 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 21.6 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 499 B

  • Original 38.1 kB
  • After minification 37.6 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. South Africaexplorer images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-71%

Potential reduce by 493.3 kB

  • Original 698.5 kB
  • After minification 532.3 kB
  • After compression 205.2 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 493.3 kB or 71% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 49.9 kB

  • Original 61.0 kB
  • After minification 48.3 kB
  • After compression 11.2 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. Southafricaexplorer.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 49.9 kB or 82% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 16 (50%)

Requests Now

32

After Optimization

16

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 32 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of South Africaexplorer. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 17 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

southafricaexplorer.co.za accessibility score

78

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-*] attributes do not match their roles

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

High

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

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

southafricaexplorer.co.za best practices score

50

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

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

southafricaexplorer.co.za SEO score

88

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

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

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    N/A

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Southafricaexplorer.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 Southafricaexplorer.co.za main page’s claimed encoding is . Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of South Africaexplorer. 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: