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Report Summary

  • 37

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    56% of other websites

  • 71

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 36% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

southerndestinations.com

Safari Holidays | Luxury Safari | African Safari Tours | Southern Destinations

Page Load Speed

6.9 sec in total

First Response

68 ms

Resources Loaded

5 sec

Page Rendered

1.8 sec

About Website

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Southern Destinations offers Online booking of the finest African safari tours & experiences in Botswana, South Africa, Namibia, Zambia, Malawi & Mozambique.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Southerndestinations.com page load time and found that the first response time was 68 ms and then it took 6.8 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

southerndestinations.com performance score

37

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.6 s

62/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.7 s

33/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.9 s

10/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,170 ms

21/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.01

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value15.4 s

7/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

southerndestinations.com

68 ms

southerndestinations.com

349 ms

www.southerndestinations.com

2326 ms

gtm.js

67 ms

tp.widget.bootstrap.min.js

22 ms

Our browser made a total of 122 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 98% of them (120 requests) were addressed to the original Southerndestinations.com, 1% (1 request) were made to Googletagmanager.com and 1% (1 request) were made to Widget.trustpilot.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.3 sec) belongs to the original domain Southerndestinations.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 537.9 kB (23%)

Content Size

2.3 MB

After Optimization

1.8 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript

In fact, the total size of Southerndestinations.com main page is 2.3 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.7 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 519.3 kB

  • Original 596.4 kB
  • After minification 596.4 kB
  • After compression 77.1 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 519.3 kB or 87% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 18.5 kB

  • Original 1.7 MB
  • After minification 1.7 MB

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 Destinations images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 12 B

  • Original 7.3 kB
  • After minification 7.3 kB
  • After compression 7.3 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 36 (32%)

Requests Now

113

After Optimization

77

  • Images
  • JavaScript

The browser has sent 113 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Southern Destinations. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 37 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

southerndestinations.com accessibility score

71

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

High

ARIA input fields do not have accessible names

High

Elements with an ARIA [role] that require children to contain a specific [role] are missing some or all of those required children.

High

[aria-*] attributes do not have valid values

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

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

southerndestinations.com best practices score

92

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

southerndestinations.com SEO score

86

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

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 Southerndestinations.com 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 Southerndestinations.com 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 Southern Destinations. 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: