Report Summary

  • 45

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    64% of other websites

  • 81

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 51% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    83% of websites

beerroute.co.za

Home - The Beer Route - Find South African Craft Beer - The Beer Route

Page Load Speed

46.4 sec in total

First Response

769 ms

Resources Loaded

43.8 sec

Page Rendered

1.9 sec

beerroute.co.za screenshot

About Website

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The Beer Route The Beer Route is dedicated to guiding you, the adventurer and lover of beer, through the delicate beauty and robust flavours of South African Quality Craft Beers. Whether it is scenic...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Beerroute.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 769 ms and then it took 45.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 95% of websites can load faster. Unfortunately, there were 3 request timeouts, which can generally increase the web page load time, as the browser stays idle while waiting for website response.

Performance Metrics

beerroute.co.za performance score

45

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value20.4 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value28.2 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value37.0 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.001

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value20.4 s

2/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

beerroute.co.za

769 ms

beerroute.co.za

2942 ms

jquery.js

18093 ms

bootstrap.min.js

1225 ms

layout.core.js

752 ms

Our browser made a total of 303 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 12% of them (36 requests) were addressed to the original Beerroute.co.za, 81% (246 requests) were made to Maps.googleapis.com and 4% (12 requests) were made to Gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (20.5 sec) belongs to the original domain Beerroute.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 766.2 kB (26%)

Content Size

2.9 MB

After Optimization

2.2 MB

In fact, the total size of Beerroute.co.za main page is 2.9 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. 75% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Images take 1.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 19.1 kB

  • Original 24.7 kB
  • After minification 22.6 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 19.1 kB or 77% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 80.8 kB

  • Original 1.4 MB
  • After minification 1.3 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. Beer Route images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-39%

Potential reduce by 491.8 kB

  • Original 1.3 MB
  • After minification 1.2 MB
  • After compression 767.6 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 491.8 kB or 39% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 174.6 kB

  • Original 207.8 kB
  • After minification 174.2 kB
  • After compression 33.2 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. Beerroute.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 174.6 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 191 (65%)

Requests Now

294

After Optimization

103

The browser has sent 294 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Beer Route. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 68 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 12 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

beerroute.co.za accessibility score

81

Accessibility Issues

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

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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

beerroute.co.za 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

beerroute.co.za SEO score

93

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 Beerroute.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 Beerroute.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 data is detected on the main page of Beer Route. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: