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Report Summary

  • 38

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    57% of other websites

  • 80

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 49% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

birchtree.co.za

Olivedale|Randburg| Accommodation|b&b|Bed and Breakfast

Page Load Speed

5.1 sec in total

First Response

712 ms

Resources Loaded

3.3 sec

Page Rendered

1.1 sec

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About Website

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

Feel at home when staying at Birch Tree Cottage, a luxury Bed and Breakfast situated in central Johannesburg, Randburg, Olivedale for the best accommodation, b&b and bed and breakfast

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Key Findings

We analyzed Birchtree.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 712 ms and then it took 4.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 70% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

birchtree.co.za performance score

38

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.5 s

66/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value10.6 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.8 s

50/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value330 ms

75/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.605

10/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value9.9 s

27/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

birchtree.co.za

712 ms

www.birchtreecottage.co.za

314 ms

www.birchtreecottage.co.za

57 ms

js

123 ms

analytics.js

58 ms

Our browser made a total of 42 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Birchtree.co.za, 55% (23 requests) were made to Lirp.cdn-website.com and 7% (3 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.3 sec) relates to the external source Afristay.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 120.4 kB (13%)

Content Size

941.6 kB

After Optimization

821.2 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript

In fact, the total size of Birchtree.co.za main page is 941.6 kB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 55% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 596.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-62%

Potential reduce by 120.2 kB

  • Original 194.1 kB
  • After minification 189.5 kB
  • After compression 73.9 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 120.2 kB or 62% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 1 B

  • Original 596.4 kB
  • After minification 596.4 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. Birchtree images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 205 B

  • Original 151.1 kB
  • After minification 151.1 kB
  • After compression 150.9 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.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 6 (16%)

Requests Now

37

After Optimization

31

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript

The browser has sent 37 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Birchtree. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 7 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

birchtree.co.za

birchtree.co.za

712 ms

www.birchtreecottage.co.za

www.birchtreecottage.co.za

314 ms

www.birchtreecottage.co.za

www.birchtreecottage.co.za

57 ms

js

js

123 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

58 ms

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166 ms

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270 ms

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191 ms

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127 ms

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953 ms

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135 ms

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151 ms

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109 ms

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152 ms

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134 ms

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205 ms

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242 ms

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339 ms

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267 ms

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315 ms

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323 ms

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300 ms

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294 ms

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333 ms

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120 ms

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jquery-3.7.0.min.js

112 ms

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d-js-one-runtime-unified-desktop.min.js

121 ms

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d-js-jquery-migrate.min.js

120 ms

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120 ms

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356 ms

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408 ms

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440 ms

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494 ms

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536 ms

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419 ms

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442 ms

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491 ms

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22 ms

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65 ms

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1288 ms

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1280 ms

Accessibility Review

birchtree.co.za accessibility score

80

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

birchtree.co.za best practices score

83

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

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

birchtree.co.za SEO score

86

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

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 Birchtree.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 Birchtree.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

birchtree.co.za

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