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Report Summary

  • 20

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    37% of other websites

  • 84

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 56% of websites

  • 50

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    19% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    94% of websites

bestofthebay.co.za

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Page Load Speed

17.5 sec in total

First Response

3.1 sec

Resources Loaded

13.9 sec

Page Rendered

596 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Bestofthebay.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 3.1 sec and then it took 14.5 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

bestofthebay.co.za performance score

20

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.8 s

56/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.5 s

19/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value11.5 s

5/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,530 ms

1/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.227

55/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value21.3 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.bestofthebay.co.za

3081 ms

jquery-1.9.1.min.js

778 ms

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1067 ms

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514 ms

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Our browser made a total of 157 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 48% of them (75 requests) were addressed to the original Bestofthebay.co.za, 12% (19 requests) were made to Scontent.xx.fbcdn.net and 12% (19 requests) were made to Static.xx.fbcdn.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (4.6 sec) belongs to the original domain Bestofthebay.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.6 MB (47%)

Content Size

3.3 MB

After Optimization

1.8 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Bestofthebay.co.za main page is 3.3 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. 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 1.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 171.1 kB

  • Original 213.5 kB
  • After minification 213.5 kB
  • After compression 42.4 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 171.1 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 5.2 kB

  • Original 1.2 MB
  • After minification 1.2 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 Of The Bay images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-70%

Potential reduce by 667.6 kB

  • Original 959.8 kB
  • After minification 939.3 kB
  • After compression 292.1 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 667.6 kB or 70% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-73%

Potential reduce by 708.9 kB

  • Original 974.5 kB
  • After minification 969.4 kB
  • After compression 265.6 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. Bestofthebay.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 708.9 kB or 73% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 76 (51%)

Requests Now

149

After Optimization

73

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 149 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Best Of The Bay. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 35 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 28 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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Accessibility Review

bestofthebay.co.za accessibility score

84

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

Internationalization and localization

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

Impact

Issue

High

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

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

bestofthebay.co.za best practices score

50

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

High

Includes front-end JavaScript libraries with known security vulnerabilities

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

bestofthebay.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 Bestofthebay.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 Bestofthebay.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

bestofthebay.co.za

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Best Of The Bay. 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: