Report Summary

  • 61

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    76% of other websites

  • 76

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 42% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    94% of websites

bestforkids.co.za

Kids Directory | Fun Activities for Kids | Best For Kids

Page Load Speed

26.5 sec in total

First Response

788 ms

Resources Loaded

25 sec

Page Rendered

678 ms

bestforkids.co.za screenshot

About Website

Welcome to bestforkids.co.za homepage info - get ready to check Best For Kids best content right away, or after learning these important things about bestforkids.co.za

Welcome to Best for kids, the kid's directory that keeps you informed on child friendly indoor and outdoor activities in and around Pretoria.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Bestforkids.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 788 ms and then it took 25.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is an excellent result, as only a small number of websites can load faster. Unfortunately, there was 1 request timeout, which can generally increase the web page load time, as the browser stays idle while waiting for website response.

Performance Metrics

bestforkids.co.za performance score

61

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.2 s

44/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.9 s

14/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.4 s

41/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.039

99/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value7.6 s

46/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

bestforkids.co.za

788 ms

www.best4kids.co.za

871 ms

best4kids.co.za

3202 ms

analytics.js

354 ms

css

47 ms

Our browser made a total of 50 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 10% of them (5 requests) were addressed to the original Bestforkids.co.za, 56% (28 requests) were made to Best4kids.co.za and 20% (10 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (20.2 sec) belongs to the original domain Bestforkids.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 337.2 kB (18%)

Content Size

1.9 MB

After Optimization

1.6 MB

In fact, the total size of Bestforkids.co.za main page is 1.9 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. 50% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.5 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 24.1 kB

  • Original 29.8 kB
  • After minification 23.2 kB
  • After compression 5.6 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 6.6 kB, which is 22% of the original size. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 24.1 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 84 B

  • Original 1.5 MB
  • After minification 1.5 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. Best For Kids images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-58%

Potential reduce by 16.2 kB

  • Original 27.8 kB
  • After minification 27.8 kB
  • After compression 11.6 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 16.2 kB or 58% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 296.7 kB

  • Original 351.1 kB
  • After minification 350.2 kB
  • After compression 54.4 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. Bestforkids.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 296.7 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 5 (14%)

Requests Now

35

After Optimization

30

The browser has sent 35 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Best For Kids. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

bestforkids.co.za accessibility score

76

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.

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

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

bestforkids.co.za best practices score

67

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

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

bestforkids.co.za SEO score

100

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

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 Bestforkids.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 Bestforkids.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 Best For Kids. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: