Report Summary

  • 43

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    62% of other websites

  • 85

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 60% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 77

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    36% of websites

cedarhouse.co.za

Cedar House - A Small School Growing big people

Page Load Speed

7 sec in total

First Response

1.2 sec

Resources Loaded

5.7 sec

Page Rendered

122 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Cedarhouse.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 1.2 sec and then it took 5.8 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

cedarhouse.co.za performance score

43

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value7.8 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value14.8 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value19.2 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value210 ms

89/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.028

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value13.3 s

11/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

cedarhouse.co.za

1230 ms

www.cedarhouse.co.za

1608 ms

css

25 ms

style.css

253 ms

cd0ac505_ai1ec_parsed_css.css

1471 ms

Our browser made a total of 43 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 91% of them (39 requests) were addressed to the original Cedarhouse.co.za, 5% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 2% (1 request) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.6 sec) belongs to the original domain Cedarhouse.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 591.2 kB (42%)

Content Size

1.4 MB

After Optimization

827.2 kB

In fact, the total size of Cedarhouse.co.za main page is 1.4 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. 30% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 607.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 25.9 kB

  • Original 32.9 kB
  • After minification 29.3 kB
  • After compression 6.9 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 3.6 kB, which is 11% of the original size. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 25.9 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 20.3 kB

  • Original 607.2 kB
  • After minification 586.9 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. Cedar House images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-70%

Potential reduce by 196.3 kB

  • Original 280.3 kB
  • After minification 252.7 kB
  • After compression 84.0 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 196.3 kB or 70% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-70%

Potential reduce by 348.8 kB

  • Original 498.0 kB
  • After minification 457.9 kB
  • After compression 149.3 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. Cedarhouse.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 348.8 kB or 70% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 26 (63%)

Requests Now

41

After Optimization

15

The browser has sent 41 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Cedar House. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 15 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 13 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

cedarhouse.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.

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

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

cedarhouse.co.za best practices score

83

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

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

cedarhouse.co.za SEO score

77

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

High

Page is blocked from indexing

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

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 Cedarhouse.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 Cedarhouse.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 Cedar House. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: