Report Summary

  • 52

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    69% of other websites

  • 75

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 41% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    20% of websites

  • 84

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    52% of websites

capestayblog.co.za

Cape Stay Blog - Cape Town Accommodation CapeStay Guide South Africa is under construction

Page Load Speed

10 sec in total

First Response

1.7 sec

Resources Loaded

7.5 sec

Page Rendered

776 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Capestayblog.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 1.7 sec and then it took 8.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 85% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

capestayblog.co.za performance score

52

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.6 s

14/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.8 s

31/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.0 s

22/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value190 ms

90/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.252

49/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value6.1 s

64/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.capestayblog.co.za

1738 ms

style.css

271 ms

css

34 ms

css

47 ms

genericons.css

1299 ms

Our browser made a total of 65 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 65% of them (42 requests) were addressed to the original Capestayblog.co.za, 12% (8 requests) were made to Capestay.co.za and 8% (5 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (3.1 sec) belongs to the original domain Capestayblog.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 440.9 kB (24%)

Content Size

1.9 MB

After Optimization

1.4 MB

In fact, the total size of Capestayblog.co.za main page is 1.9 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. 40% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 45.6 kB

  • Original 57.4 kB
  • After minification 56.2 kB
  • After compression 11.8 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 45.6 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 67.3 kB

  • Original 1.3 MB
  • After minification 1.3 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. Cape Stay Blog images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-65%

Potential reduce by 263.0 kB

  • Original 407.6 kB
  • After minification 403.8 kB
  • After compression 144.6 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 263.0 kB or 65% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 64.9 kB

  • Original 79.5 kB
  • After minification 72.1 kB
  • After compression 14.6 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. Capestayblog.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 64.9 kB or 82% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 26 (46%)

Requests Now

57

After Optimization

31

The browser has sent 57 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Cape Stay Blog. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 14 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 8 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

capestayblog.co.za accessibility score

75

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

List items (<li>) are not contained within <ul> or <ol> parent elements.

Best Practices

capestayblog.co.za best practices score

58

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

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

capestayblog.co.za SEO score

84

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 Capestayblog.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 Capestayblog.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 data is detected on the main page of Cape Stay Blog. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: