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Report Summary

  • 95

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    93% of other websites

  • 87

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 66% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 77

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    36% of websites

black-tie.co.za

Black-Tie Entertainment / Weddings / Photography / In your package

Page Load Speed

1.5 sec in total

First Response

152 ms

Resources Loaded

1.3 sec

Page Rendered

79 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Black-tie.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 152 ms and then it took 1.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 30% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

black-tie.co.za performance score

95

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.6 s

94/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.7 s

85/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value2.4 s

98/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.028

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value1.6 s

100/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

black-tie.co.za

152 ms

black-tie.co.za

833 ms

template.min.css

235 ms

colors_standard.min.css

113 ms

joomla-alert.min.css

114 ms

Our browser made a total of 26 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 65% of them (17 requests) were addressed to the original Black-tie.co.za, 23% (6 requests) were made to Cdnjs.cloudflare.com and 8% (2 requests) were made to Cdn.jsdelivr.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (833 ms) belongs to the original domain Black-tie.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 252.3 kB (74%)

Content Size

342.8 kB

After Optimization

90.5 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Black-tie.co.za main page is 342.8 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. 20% of websites need less resources to load. CSS take 265.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-74%

Potential reduce by 14.0 kB

  • Original 19.0 kB
  • After minification 18.1 kB
  • After compression 5.0 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 14.0 kB or 74% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 34.5 kB
  • After minification 34.5 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. Black Tie images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-61%

Potential reduce by 14.7 kB

  • Original 24.0 kB
  • After minification 23.8 kB
  • After compression 9.4 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 14.7 kB or 61% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 223.6 kB

  • Original 265.3 kB
  • After minification 264.5 kB
  • After compression 41.7 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. Black-tie.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 223.6 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 18 (82%)

Requests Now

22

After Optimization

4

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 22 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Black Tie. 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 8 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

black-tie.co.za

black-tie.co.za

152 ms

black-tie.co.za

black-tie.co.za

833 ms

template.min.css

template.min.css

235 ms

colors_standard.min.css

colors_standard.min.css

113 ms

joomla-alert.min.css

joomla-alert.min.css

114 ms

metismenujs.min.js

metismenujs.min.js

116 ms

menu-metismenu.min.js

menu-metismenu.min.js

116 ms

core.min.js

core.min.js

116 ms

template.min.js

template.min.js

146 ms

collapse.min.js

collapse.min.js

148 ms

messages.min.js

messages.min.js

148 ms

run-schedule.min.js

run-schedule.min.js

149 ms

bootstrap.min.css

bootstrap.min.css

25 ms

bootstrap.bundle.min.js

bootstrap.bundle.min.js

29 ms

jquery-1.8.3.js

jquery-1.8.3.js

32 ms

jquery.timepicker.min.css

jquery.timepicker.min.css

42 ms

jquery.timepicker.css

jquery.timepicker.css

243 ms

jquery.timepicker.js

jquery.timepicker.js

243 ms

jquery.timepicker.min.js

jquery.timepicker.min.js

56 ms

bootstrap-datepicker3.min.css

bootstrap-datepicker3.min.css

59 ms

bootstrap-datepicker.min.js

bootstrap-datepicker.min.js

60 ms

jquery.timepicker.js

jquery.timepicker.js

134 ms

jquery.timepicker.css

jquery.timepicker.css

164 ms

joomla-alert.css

joomla-alert.css

69 ms

BT%20Logo%20Small.jpg

BT%20Logo%20Small.jpg

36 ms

top_panoramic_home.jpg

top_panoramic_home.jpg

68 ms

Accessibility Review

black-tie.co.za accessibility score

87

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Best Practices

black-tie.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

black-tie.co.za SEO score

77

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Black-tie.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 Black-tie.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

black-tie.co.za

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