Report Summary

  • 38

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    57% of other websites

  • 93

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 80% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 98

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    92% of websites

capturethecape.co.za

Photographic Expeditions and Tours - Cape Town Photography Tours

Page Load Speed

9.1 sec in total

First Response

2.9 sec

Resources Loaded

5.9 sec

Page Rendered

302 ms

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About Website

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Capture the Cape offers some brilliant photographic expeditions and tours to local as well as remote places like the Cederberg, Tankwa Karoo and others.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Capturethecape.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 2.9 sec and then it took 6.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 80% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

capturethecape.co.za performance score

38

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.7 s

13/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value12.9 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value10.9 s

6/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value240 ms

85/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.21

59/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value12.3 s

15/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

capturethecape.co.za

2870 ms

css

31 ms

global.css

491 ms

style.min.css

497 ms

styles.css

506 ms

Our browser made a total of 83 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 65% of them (54 requests) were addressed to the original Capturethecape.co.za, 10% (8 requests) were made to Static.xx.fbcdn.net and 6% (5 requests) were made to Platform.twitter.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.9 sec) belongs to the original domain Capturethecape.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 130.0 kB (10%)

Content Size

1.2 MB

After Optimization

1.1 MB

In fact, the total size of Capturethecape.co.za main page is 1.2 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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 929.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 85.7 kB

  • Original 107.0 kB
  • After minification 100.2 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 85.7 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 35.2 kB

  • Original 929.2 kB
  • After minification 894.0 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. Capturethe Cape images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 5.9 kB

  • Original 145.6 kB
  • After minification 145.6 kB
  • After compression 139.7 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

-5%

Potential reduce by 3.2 kB

  • Original 67.3 kB
  • After minification 67.3 kB
  • After compression 64.1 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. Capturethecape.co.za has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 39 (51%)

Requests Now

76

After Optimization

37

The browser has sent 76 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Capturethe Cape. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 26 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 15 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

capturethecape.co.za accessibility score

93

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

capturethecape.co.za best practices score

92

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

capturethecape.co.za SEO score

98

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Capturethecape.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 Capturethecape.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 Capturethe Cape. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: