Access theballetschool.co.za. Kate McCallum's Ballet School in Hout Bay, South Africa

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value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value0.7 s

100/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.2 s

94/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value1.9 s

100/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.013

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value0.7 s

100/100

10%

theballetschool.co.za

1070 ms

bg-header.gif

369 ms

logo.gif

734 ms

nav_home.gif

734 ms

nav_about.gif

735 ms

Our browser made a total of 22 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that all of those requests were addressed to Theballetschool.co.za and no external sources were called. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.6 sec) belongs to the original domain Theballetschool.co.za.

Content Size

677.5 kB

After Optimization

642.0 kB

In fact, the total size of Theballetschool.co.za main page is 677.5 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. 30% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 651.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 20.8 kB

Original 26.5 kB
After minification 26.3 kB
After compression 5.7 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 20.8 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 14.7 kB

Original 651.0 kB
After minification 636.3 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. The Ballet School images are well optimized though.

Requests Now

After Optimization

The browser has sent 21 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of The Ballet School. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Accessibility Issues

These are opportunities to improve the legibility of your content.

High

Background and foreground colors do not have a sufficient contrast ratio.

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

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.

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Areas of Improvement

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

High

Serves images with low resolution

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Language and Encoding

Language Detected

EN
Language Claimed

N/A
Encoding

ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Theballetschool.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 Theballetschool.co.za main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. 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 The Ballet School. 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: