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Report Summary

  • 46

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    64% of other websites

  • 86

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 61% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 75

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    32% of websites

bibs.co.za

Bibs Holiday Accommodation - St Lucia Self Catering Backpackers Accommodation

Page Load Speed

7.5 sec in total

First Response

995 ms

Resources Loaded

5.9 sec

Page Rendered

566 ms

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About Website

Welcome to bibs.co.za homepage info - get ready to check Bibs best content right away, or after learning these important things about bibs.co.za

Situated in the heat of the Isimangaliso Wetland Park, in the small village of St Lucia lies the newly renovated Bibs Holiday Accommodation

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Key Findings

We analyzed Bibs.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 995 ms and then it took 6.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 80% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

bibs.co.za performance score

46

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.9 s

11/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value16.7 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value13.8 s

1/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value140 ms

95/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.01

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value12.7 s

14/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

bibs.co.za

995 ms

css

39 ms

css

58 ms

animate.css

333 ms

icomoon.css

636 ms

Our browser made a total of 58 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 86% of them (50 requests) were addressed to the original Bibs.co.za, 9% (5 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 3% (2 requests) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (3.5 sec) belongs to the original domain Bibs.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 23.9 kB (0%)

Content Size

5.1 MB

After Optimization

5.0 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Bibs.co.za main page is 5.1 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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 4.9 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 10.4 kB

  • Original 13.6 kB
  • After minification 12.1 kB
  • After compression 3.3 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 1.6 kB, which is 11% 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 10.4 kB or 76% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 5.1 kB

  • Original 4.9 MB
  • After minification 4.9 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. Bibs images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 3.5 kB

  • Original 81.6 kB
  • After minification 81.6 kB
  • After compression 78.2 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

-11%

Potential reduce by 5.0 kB

  • Original 45.3 kB
  • After minification 45.3 kB
  • After compression 40.3 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. Bibs.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 5.0 kB or 11% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 22 (46%)

Requests Now

48

After Optimization

26

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 48 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Bibs. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 12 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 12 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

bibs.co.za

bibs.co.za

995 ms

css

css

39 ms

css

css

58 ms

animate.css

animate.css

333 ms

icomoon.css

icomoon.css

636 ms

bootstrap.css

bootstrap.css

960 ms

magnific-popup.css

magnific-popup.css

646 ms

flexslider.css

flexslider.css

648 ms

owl.carousel.min.css

owl.carousel.min.css

654 ms

owl.theme.default.min.css

owl.theme.default.min.css

656 ms

bootstrap-datepicker.css

bootstrap-datepicker.css

955 ms

flaticon.css

flaticon.css

972 ms

style.css

style.css

975 ms

modernizr-2.6.2.min.js

modernizr-2.6.2.min.js

985 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

1308 ms

jquery.easing.1.3.js

jquery.easing.1.3.js

1274 ms

bootstrap.min.js

bootstrap.min.js

1283 ms

jquery.waypoints.min.js

jquery.waypoints.min.js

1295 ms

jquery.flexslider-min.js

jquery.flexslider-min.js

1299 ms

owl.carousel.min.js

owl.carousel.min.js

1318 ms

jquery.magnific-popup.min.js

jquery.magnific-popup.min.js

1587 ms

magnific-popup-options.js

magnific-popup-options.js

1594 ms

main.js

main.js

1609 ms

js

js

57 ms

contact.php

contact.php

641 ms

loader.gif

loader.gif

932 ms

logo-res.png

logo-res.png

642 ms

bg-header.jpg

bg-header.jpg

2774 ms

about1.jpg

about1.jpg

1853 ms

about2.jpg

about2.jpg

2192 ms

facilities1.jpg

facilities1.jpg

2260 ms

facilities2.jpg

facilities2.jpg

2253 ms

facilities3.jpg

facilities3.jpg

1903 ms

facilities4.jpg

facilities4.jpg

2176 ms

rooms1-1.jpg

rooms1-1.jpg

2553 ms

rooms1-2.jpg

rooms1-2.jpg

2502 ms

rooms1-3.jpg

rooms1-3.jpg

2518 ms

rooms2-1.jpg

rooms2-1.jpg

2590 ms

rooms2-3.jpg

rooms2-3.jpg

2591 ms

rooms2-2.jpg

rooms2-2.jpg

2827 ms

rooms3-1.jpg

rooms3-1.jpg

2843 ms

rooms3-2.jpg

rooms3-2.jpg

2879 ms

rooms3-3.jpg

rooms3-3.jpg

2922 ms

rooms4-1.jpg

rooms4-1.jpg

2921 ms

rooms4-2.jpg

rooms4-2.jpg

3089 ms

rooms4-3.jpg

rooms4-3.jpg

3147 ms

bg-contact.jpg

bg-contact.jpg

3481 ms

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3203 ms

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2616 ms

captcha_code_file.php

captcha_code_file.php

332 ms

icomoon.woff

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318 ms

icomoon.svg

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328 ms

Accessibility Review

bibs.co.za accessibility score

86

Accessibility Issues

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

bibs.co.za best practices score

67

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

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

bibs.co.za SEO score

75

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

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

bibs.co.za

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Bibs. 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: