Report Summary

  • 100

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    97% of other websites

  • 85

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 60% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 67

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    25% of websites

blueelephant.co.za

Blue Elephant Collective

Page Load Speed

2.9 sec in total

First Response

764 ms

Resources Loaded

2 sec

Page Rendered

119 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Blueelephant.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 764 ms and then it took 2.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 40% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

blueelephant.co.za performance score

100

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value0.8 s

100/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value1.8 s

98/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value1.8 s

100/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value0.8 s

100/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

blueelephant.co.za

764 ms

style.css

261 ms

banner.jpg

1236 ms

image1.jpg

754 ms

image2.jpg

754 ms

Our browser made a total of 5 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that all of those requests were addressed to Blueelephant.co.za and no external sources were called. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.2 sec) belongs to the original domain Blueelephant.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 12.0 kB (8%)

Content Size

159.8 kB

After Optimization

147.8 kB

In fact, the total size of Blueelephant.co.za main page is 159.8 kB. This result falls within a vast category (top 1 000 000) of heavyweight, probably not optimized, and thus slow loading web pages. Only 5% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 148.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-58%

Potential reduce by 1.8 kB

  • Original 3.1 kB
  • After minification 3.1 kB
  • After compression 1.3 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 1.8 kB or 58% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 3.2 kB

  • Original 148.2 kB
  • After minification 145.0 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. Blue Elephant images are well optimized though.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 7.1 kB

  • Original 8.5 kB
  • After minification 7.2 kB
  • After compression 1.5 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. Blueelephant.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 7.1 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

4

After Optimization

4

The browser has sent 4 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Blue Elephant. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Accessibility Review

blueelephant.co.za accessibility score

85

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.

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

blueelephant.co.za best practices score

75

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

SEO Factors

blueelephant.co.za SEO score

67

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 Blueelephant.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 Blueelephant.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

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