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Report Summary

  • 20

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    37% of other websites

  • 82

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 52% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 98

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    92% of websites

southerncape.online

The Southern Cape and Karoo | Explore, network and connect

Page Load Speed

15 sec in total

First Response

1.5 sec

Resources Loaded

12.7 sec

Page Rendered

778 ms

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Southerncape.online page load time and found that the first response time was 1.5 sec and then it took 13.5 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

southerncape.online performance score

20

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value19.8 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value37.2 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value50.4 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,410 ms

15/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value38.3 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

southerncape.online

1483 ms

gtm.js

63 ms

buddyboss_legacy.css

475 ms

style.min.css

716 ms

style-buddypanel.css

712 ms

Our browser made a total of 204 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 93% of them (190 requests) were addressed to the original Southerncape.online, 2% (5 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 1% (3 requests) were made to Use.fontawesome.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.3 sec) belongs to the original domain Southerncape.online.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 247.7 kB (24%)

Content Size

1.0 MB

After Optimization

775.4 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript

In fact, the total size of Southerncape.online main page is 1.0 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. Images take 710.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 246.9 kB

  • Original 292.1 kB
  • After minification 282.9 kB
  • After compression 45.2 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. 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 246.9 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 690 B

  • Original 710.0 kB
  • After minification 709.3 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. Southern Cape images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 50 B

  • Original 21.0 kB
  • After minification 21.0 kB
  • After compression 20.9 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.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 144 (84%)

Requests Now

172

After Optimization

28

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 172 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Southern Cape. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 96 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 50 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

southerncape.online accessibility score

82

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

Links do not have a discernible name

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

southerncape.online 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

southerncape.online SEO score

98

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

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 Southerncape.online 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 Southerncape.online 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 Southern Cape. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: