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Report Summary

  • 23

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    41% of other websites

  • 96

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 88% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 91

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    70% of websites

bens.co.za

Ben's on the Beach Grill - Strand Steak House and Grill

Page Load Speed

14.8 sec in total

First Response

3.9 sec

Resources Loaded

10.6 sec

Page Rendered

348 ms

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About Website

Visit bens.co.za now to see the best up-to-date Ben S content and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about bens.co.za

Situated on the beachfront in the Strand, Ben’s on the Beach boasts spectacular views across False Bay. We serve steaks, fish and international favourites.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Bens.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 3.9 sec and then it took 10.9 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

bens.co.za performance score

23

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.9 s

1/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.5 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value16.1 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,160 ms

22/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.004

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value14.8 s

8/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.bens.co.za

3908 ms

style.min.css

764 ms

integrity-light.css

1157 ms

style.css

1155 ms

the-grid.min.css

1166 ms

Our browser made a total of 48 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 60% of them (29 requests) were addressed to the original Bens.co.za, 10% (5 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 10% (5 requests) were made to Gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (3.9 sec) belongs to the original domain Bens.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 91.2 kB (6%)

Content Size

1.5 MB

After Optimization

1.4 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Bens.co.za main page is 1.5 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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 982.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 87.6 kB

  • Original 109.2 kB
  • After minification 107.8 kB
  • After compression 21.6 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 87.6 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 1.9 kB

  • Original 982.1 kB
  • After minification 980.2 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. Ben S images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 1.4 kB

  • Original 355.0 kB
  • After minification 355.0 kB
  • After compression 353.6 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 295 B

  • Original 79.4 kB
  • After minification 79.3 kB
  • After compression 79.1 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. Bens.co.za has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 24 (62%)

Requests Now

39

After Optimization

15

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 39 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Ben S. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 20 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

www.bens.co.za

www.bens.co.za

3908 ms

style.min.css

style.min.css

764 ms

integrity-light.css

integrity-light.css

1157 ms

style.css

style.css

1155 ms

the-grid.min.css

the-grid.min.css

1166 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

1216 ms

jquery-migrate.min.js

jquery-migrate.min.js

821 ms

css

css

30 ms

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1549 ms

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index.js

1162 ms

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index.js

1172 ms

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1192 ms

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1309 ms

x.js

x.js

1547 ms

comment-reply.min.js

comment-reply.min.js

1560 ms

api.js

api.js

42 ms

effect.min.js

effect.min.js

1613 ms

the-grid.min.js

the-grid.min.js

1617 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

131 ms

bens-logo-lg-1.png

bens-logo-lg-1.png

1252 ms

bens-on-the-beach.jpg

bens-on-the-beach.jpg

1818 ms

bens-on-the-beach-good-food.jpg

bens-on-the-beach-good-food.jpg

1448 ms

bens-on-the-beach-relaxed-venue.jpg

bens-on-the-beach-relaxed-venue.jpg

1849 ms

bens-on-the-beach-appetizers.jpg

bens-on-the-beach-appetizers.jpg

1531 ms

bens-on-the-beach-lighter-meals.jpg

bens-on-the-beach-lighter-meals.jpg

1164 ms

bens-on-the-beach-pots-and-pans.jpg

bens-on-the-beach-pots-and-pans.jpg

1963 ms

bens-on-the-beach-on-the-fire.jpg

bens-on-the-beach-on-the-fire.jpg

2051 ms

bens-on-the-beach-special-grills.jpg

bens-on-the-beach-special-grills.jpg

1837 ms

bens-on-the-beach-afterthoughts.jpg

bens-on-the-beach-afterthoughts.jpg

1934 ms

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45 ms

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2911 ms

the_grid.ttf

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2166 ms

fa-brands-400.ttf

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2569 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

19 ms

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13 ms

js

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40 ms

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24 ms

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53 ms

styles__ltr.css

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9 ms

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17 ms

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webworker.js

33 ms

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20 ms

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42 ms

Accessibility Review

bens.co.za accessibility score

96

Accessibility Issues

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

bens.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

SEO Factors

bens.co.za SEO score

91

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

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Bens.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 Bens.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

bens.co.za

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of Ben S. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: