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Report Summary

  • 46

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    64% of other websites

  • 77

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 44% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 80

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    42% of websites

bluebaylodge.co.za

Luxury Beach Accommodation, Weddings and Conferences - Blue Bay Lodge

Page Load Speed

6.4 sec in total

First Response

965 ms

Resources Loaded

5.3 sec

Page Rendered

141 ms

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About Website

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Blue Bay Lodge offers luxury hotel accommodation, self catering accommodation, wedding and conference venues, all next to a beautiful and safe beach. We are located in South Africa's West Coast, withi...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Bluebaylodge.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 965 ms and then it took 5.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 75% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

bluebaylodge.co.za performance score

46

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.2 s

8/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value18.5 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value12.6 s

3/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value10 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.072

96/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value17.3 s

4/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

bluebaylodge.co.za

965 ms

skitter.styles.css

335 ms

system.css

644 ms

general.css

663 ms

template.css

665 ms

Our browser made a total of 50 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 86% of them (43 requests) were addressed to the original Bluebaylodge.co.za, 6% (3 requests) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com and 4% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (3.3 sec) belongs to the original domain Bluebaylodge.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 459.1 kB (14%)

Content Size

3.2 MB

After Optimization

2.8 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Bluebaylodge.co.za main page is 3.2 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. 50% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 3.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 16.0 kB

  • Original 21.3 kB
  • After minification 19.6 kB
  • After compression 5.4 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 16.0 kB or 75% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-14%

Potential reduce by 439.8 kB

  • Original 3.1 MB
  • After minification 2.7 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. Obviously, Blue Bay Lodge needs image optimization as it can save up to 439.8 kB or 14% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 904 B

  • Original 47.8 kB
  • After minification 47.8 kB
  • After compression 46.9 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.

CSS Optimization

-23%

Potential reduce by 2.4 kB

  • Original 10.4 kB
  • After minification 10.4 kB
  • After compression 8.0 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. Bluebaylodge.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 2.4 kB or 23% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 15 (31%)

Requests Now

48

After Optimization

33

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 48 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Blue Bay Lodge. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 8 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 9 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

bluebaylodge.co.za

bluebaylodge.co.za

965 ms

skitter.styles.css

skitter.styles.css

335 ms

system.css

system.css

644 ms

general.css

general.css

663 ms

template.css

template.css

665 ms

jquery-1.10.2.min.js

jquery-1.10.2.min.js

22 ms

mootools.js

mootools.js

991 ms

caption.js

caption.js

671 ms

btloader.min.js

btloader.min.js

668 ms

responsive.css

responsive.css

967 ms

styles-menu.css

styles-menu.css

996 ms

script-menu.js

script-menu.js

997 ms

css

css

34 ms

css

css

19 ms

css

css

40 ms

jf_footer.png

jf_footer.png

991 ms

logo.png

logo.png

646 ms

jf_menu_div.png

jf_menu_div.png

657 ms

jf_menu_item_left.jpg

jf_menu_item_left.jpg

336 ms

jf_menu_item_right.jpg

jf_menu_item_right.jpg

331 ms

1.jpg

1.jpg

1950 ms

2.jpg

2.jpg

1633 ms

3.jpg

3.jpg

1981 ms

4.jpg

4.jpg

1924 ms

5.jpg

5.jpg

1315 ms

6.jpg

6.jpg

1650 ms

7.jpg

7.jpg

1969 ms

8.jpg

8.jpg

2287 ms

9.jpg

9.jpg

2306 ms

10.jpg

10.jpg

2248 ms

11.jpg

11.jpg

2278 ms

12.jpg

12.jpg

2624 ms

13.jpg

13.jpg

2640 ms

14.jpg

14.jpg

2892 ms

3_star.jpg

3_star.jpg

2607 ms

facebook.png

facebook.png

2615 ms

instagram.jpg

instagram.jpg

2638 ms

pinterest.png

pinterest.png

2938 ms

google.png

google.png

2944 ms

jquery.skitter.min.js

jquery.skitter.min.js

2945 ms

jquery.easing.1.3.min.js

jquery.easing.1.3.min.js

2957 ms

jf_div.png

jf_div.png

2975 ms

jf_white_bottom.png

jf_white_bottom.png

3204 ms

jf_div2.png

jf_div2.png

3256 ms

jf_arrow.png

jf_arrow.png

3262 ms

6xK3dSBYKcSV-LCoeQqfX1RYOo3qOK7j.woff

6xK3dSBYKcSV-LCoeQqfX1RYOo3qOK7j.woff

20 ms

ga.js

ga.js

9 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

12 ms

back-box-label-black.png

back-box-label-black.png

334 ms

ajax-loader.gif

ajax-loader.gif

336 ms

Accessibility Review

bluebaylodge.co.za accessibility score

77

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

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

bluebaylodge.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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

bluebaylodge.co.za SEO score

80

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

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

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 Bluebaylodge.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 Bluebaylodge.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

bluebaylodge.co.za

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Blue Bay Lodge. 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: