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Report Summary

  • 45

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    64% of other websites

  • 75

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 41% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 62

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    23% of websites

bigcave.co.za

Big Cave Camp - Big Cave Camp - Matopos Hills accommodation at its best! Borders Matobo National Park

Page Load Speed

3.5 sec in total

First Response

973 ms

Resources Loaded

2.1 sec

Page Rendered

452 ms

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About Website

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"Safari lodge on the rocks" , Big Cave Camp has outstanding accommodation in Matobo Hills, with stupendous views into the Matopos National Park. Matobo Hills is also a World Heritage site, and a great...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Bigcave.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 973 ms and then it took 2.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

bigcave.co.za performance score

45

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.9 s

11/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value10.2 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.8 s

24/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value290 ms

79/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.059

98/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value9.9 s

27/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

bigcave.co.za

973 ms

www.bigcavematopos.com

135 ms

www.bigcavematopos.com

169 ms

sites.css

30 ms

fancybox.css

37 ms

Our browser made a total of 59 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Bigcave.co.za, 46% (27 requests) were made to Bigcavematopos.com and 37% (22 requests) were made to Cdn2.editmysite.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (973 ms) belongs to the original domain Bigcave.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 527.1 kB (16%)

Content Size

3.4 MB

After Optimization

2.9 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Bigcave.co.za main page is 3.4 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 2.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 51.4 kB

  • Original 64.7 kB
  • After minification 63.8 kB
  • After compression 13.3 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. 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 51.4 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 18.9 kB

  • Original 2.3 MB
  • After minification 2.3 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. Big Cave images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-48%

Potential reduce by 454.1 kB

  • Original 949.5 kB
  • After minification 949.5 kB
  • After compression 495.4 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 454.1 kB or 48% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 2.7 kB

  • Original 55.0 kB
  • After minification 54.0 kB
  • After compression 52.3 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. Bigcave.co.za has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 21 (41%)

Requests Now

51

After Optimization

30

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 51 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Big Cave. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 14 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 9 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

bigcave.co.za

bigcave.co.za

973 ms

www.bigcavematopos.com

www.bigcavematopos.com

135 ms

www.bigcavematopos.com

www.bigcavematopos.com

169 ms

sites.css

sites.css

30 ms

fancybox.css

fancybox.css

37 ms

main_style.css

main_style.css

109 ms

font.css

font.css

22 ms

font.css

font.css

21 ms

font.css

font.css

20 ms

site_membership.css

site_membership.css

22 ms

slideshow.css

slideshow.css

25 ms

templateArtifacts.js

templateArtifacts.js

116 ms

jquery-1.8.3.min.js

jquery-1.8.3.min.js

25 ms

stl.js

stl.js

25 ms

main.js

main.js

35 ms

main-membership-site.js

main-membership-site.js

35 ms

slideshow-jq.js

slideshow-jq.js

26 ms

email-decode.min.js

email-decode.min.js

24 ms

main-customer-accounts-site.js

main-customer-accounts-site.js

35 ms

wejs

wejs

66 ms

play-icon.png

play-icon.png

181 ms

150_logo-11900-2.png

150_logo-11900-2.png

223 ms

banner2.jpg

banner2.jpg

484 ms

1391416615.png

1391416615.png

116 ms

navhover.gif

navhover.gif

182 ms

big-cave-lodge-on-the-rocks.jpg

big-cave-lodge-on-the-rocks.jpg

145 ms

istock-000011168194large_orig.jpg

istock-000011168194large_orig.jpg

145 ms

big-cave-rhino-tracking-57-of-210_3_orig.jpg

big-cave-rhino-tracking-57-of-210_3_orig.jpg

151 ms

1453447448.png

1453447448.png

144 ms

tc-sticker-2023-white_orig.gif

tc-sticker-2023-white_orig.gif

158 ms

button_small_orange.png

button_small_orange.png

240 ms

mastercard-logo-visa.png

mastercard-logo-visa.png

169 ms

social-orange-gradient.png

social-orange-gradient.png

269 ms

tripadvisor-bravo-2019.png

tripadvisor-bravo-2019.png

192 ms

vertical-banner-1080-x-1350-v2-tc-latest.jpg

vertical-banner-1080-x-1350-v2-tc-latest.jpg

194 ms

new-classicspng.png

new-classicspng.png

205 ms

WidgetEmbed-selfserveprop

WidgetEmbed-selfserveprop

142 ms

ga.js

ga.js

89 ms

snowday262.js

snowday262.js

47 ms

header_slideshow_sprites.png

header_slideshow_sprites.png

30 ms

loading.gif

loading.gif

7 ms

1386670578.jpg

1386670578.jpg

145 ms

b-029-matobo-big-cave-matobo-big-cave.jpg

b-029-matobo-big-cave-matobo-big-cave.jpg

147 ms

motopos-zimbabwe-1.jpg

motopos-zimbabwe-1.jpg

167 ms

img-2620.jpg

img-2620.jpg

169 ms

img-2698.jpg

img-2698.jpg

173 ms

big-cave-rhino-tracking-170-of-210-cropped_1.jpg

big-cave-rhino-tracking-170-of-210-cropped_1.jpg

187 ms

353 ms

regular.ttf

regular.ttf

26 ms

regular.woff

regular.woff

31 ms

light.woff

light.woff

38 ms

bold.woff

bold.woff

38 ms

341 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

12 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

9 ms

t4b_widget_self_serve_property-v24221562771a.css

t4b_widget_self_serve_property-v24221562771a.css

16 ms

cdswidgets_m-c-v22480917520a.js

cdswidgets_m-c-v22480917520a.js

23 ms

tp2

tp2

129 ms

jquery-2.1.4.min.js

jquery-2.1.4.min.js

2 ms

Accessibility Review

bigcave.co.za accessibility score

75

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.

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

<dl>'s do not contain only properly-ordered <dt> and <dd> groups, <script>, <template> or <div> elements.

High

Definition list items are not wrapped in <dl> elements

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

bigcave.co.za best practices score

75

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

SEO Factors

bigcave.co.za SEO score

62

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

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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 Bigcave.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 Bigcave.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

bigcave.co.za

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