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Report Summary

  • 30

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    50% of other websites

  • 81

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 51% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 89

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    66% of websites

buffalohotel.co.za

Buffalo Hotel – The oldest hotel in Mpumalanga's “Wild Frontier"

Page Load Speed

7.1 sec in total

First Response

1.5 sec

Resources Loaded

5.2 sec

Page Rendered

343 ms

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About Website

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

Steeped in history, the Buffalo Hotel is the oldest hotel in Mpumalanga’s “Wild Frontier” tourist region. https://buffalohotel.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/Buffalo-Hotel-1.mp4

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Key Findings

We analyzed Buffalohotel.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 1.5 sec 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

buffalohotel.co.za performance score

30

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.1 s

3/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value23.3 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value12.2 s

3/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value600 ms

49/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.099

90/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value14.6 s

8/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

buffalohotel.co.za

1548 ms

gd_core_frontend.css

194 ms

styles.css

294 ms

tribe-events-single-skeleton.min.css

311 ms

tribe-events-single-full.min.css

304 ms

Our browser made a total of 91 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 85% of them (77 requests) were addressed to the original Buffalohotel.co.za, 4% (4 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 3% (3 requests) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.5 sec) belongs to the original domain Buffalohotel.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.3 MB (18%)

Content Size

7.4 MB

After Optimization

6.1 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Buffalohotel.co.za main page is 7.4 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 6.8 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 82.1 kB

  • Original 103.4 kB
  • After minification 102.0 kB
  • After compression 21.3 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 82.1 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-18%

Potential reduce by 1.2 MB

  • Original 6.8 MB
  • After minification 5.6 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, Buffalo Hotel needs image optimization as it can save up to 1.2 MB or 18% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 697 B

  • Original 414.6 kB
  • After minification 414.6 kB
  • After compression 413.9 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

-4%

Potential reduce by 4.2 kB

  • Original 120.1 kB
  • After minification 120.1 kB
  • After compression 115.8 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. Buffalohotel.co.za has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 65 (76%)

Requests Now

86

After Optimization

21

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 86 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Buffalo Hotel. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 45 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 22 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

buffalohotel.co.za

buffalohotel.co.za

1548 ms

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194 ms

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294 ms

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311 ms

tribe-events-single-full.min.css

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304 ms

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311 ms

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301 ms

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305 ms

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54 ms

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400 ms

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401 ms

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67 ms

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105 ms

Accessibility Review

buffalohotel.co.za accessibility score

81

Accessibility Issues

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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.

Best Practices

buffalohotel.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

buffalohotel.co.za SEO score

89

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

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 Buffalohotel.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 Buffalohotel.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

buffalohotel.co.za

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Buffalo Hotel. 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: