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Report Summary

  • 48

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    66% of other websites

  • 97

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 92% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    83% of websites

cycle-africa.co.za

Cycling holidays and tours South Africa | Individual travel | Bike Bags

Page Load Speed

21.2 sec in total

First Response

191 ms

Resources Loaded

20.8 sec

Page Rendered

216 ms

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About Website

Welcome to cycle-africa.co.za homepage info - get ready to check Cycle Africa best content for United Kingdom right away, or after learning these important things about cycle-africa.co.za

Bike packing in South Africa is growing fast. All my bags are handmade. I have a stock standard range of bike bags but also do custom-made frame bags.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Cycle-africa.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 191 ms and then it took 21 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 95% of websites can load faster. Unfortunately, there was 1 request timeout, which can generally increase the web page load time, as the browser stays idle while waiting for website response.

Performance Metrics

cycle-africa.co.za performance score

48

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.6 s

13/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.5 s

19/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value36.8 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value120 ms

97/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.147

76/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value12.4 s

14/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

cycle-africa.co.za

191 ms

www.cycle-africa.co.za

426 ms

responsive_all.css

22 ms

jquery.min.js

52 ms

jquery.maximage.min.css

167 ms

Our browser made a total of 66 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 71% of them (47 requests) were addressed to the original Cycle-africa.co.za, 6% (4 requests) were made to Leadingwebexposure.com and 3% (2 requests) were made to Ajax.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (20.2 sec) belongs to the original domain Cycle-africa.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 109.0 kB (5%)

Content Size

2.1 MB

After Optimization

2.0 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Cycle-africa.co.za main page is 2.1 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 1.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-73%

Potential reduce by 30.9 kB

  • Original 42.2 kB
  • After minification 38.5 kB
  • After compression 11.3 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 30.9 kB or 73% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 40.9 kB

  • Original 1.4 MB
  • After minification 1.4 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. Cycle Africa images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 24.1 kB

  • Original 563.4 kB
  • After minification 563.2 kB
  • After compression 539.2 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

-27%

Potential reduce by 13.0 kB

  • Original 47.9 kB
  • After minification 47.2 kB
  • After compression 34.8 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. Cycle-africa.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 13.0 kB or 27% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 41 (67%)

Requests Now

61

After Optimization

20

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 61 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Cycle Africa. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 21 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 22 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

cycle-africa.co.za

cycle-africa.co.za

191 ms

www.cycle-africa.co.za

www.cycle-africa.co.za

426 ms

responsive_all.css

responsive_all.css

22 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

52 ms

jquery.maximage.min.css

jquery.maximage.min.css

167 ms

jquery.cycle.all.js

jquery.cycle.all.js

186 ms

jquery.easing.1.3.js

jquery.easing.1.3.js

177 ms

jquery.maximage.min.js

jquery.maximage.min.js

179 ms

bwlJqueryNewsTicker.css

bwlJqueryNewsTicker.css

48 ms

cookieconsent.min.js

cookieconsent.min.js

65 ms

jquery-migrate-1.2.1.min.js

jquery-migrate-1.2.1.min.js

48 ms

jquery-ui.min.js

jquery-ui.min.js

59 ms

hoverIntent.js

hoverIntent.js

19715 ms

superfish.min.js

superfish.min.js

385 ms

jquery.fancybox.js

jquery.fancybox.js

19510 ms

jquery.fancybox-buttons.js

jquery.fancybox-buttons.js

19470 ms

forms.js

forms.js

643 ms

owl.carousel.js

owl.carousel.js

723 ms

jquery.matchHeight.js

jquery.matchHeight.js

670 ms

block_inserts.js

block_inserts.js

1051 ms

jquery.responsiveTabs.js

jquery.responsiveTabs.js

1421 ms

jquery.doubleScroll.js

jquery.doubleScroll.js

1572 ms

all.js

all.js

139 ms

rating.js

rating.js

1652 ms

jquery-ui.css

jquery-ui.css

47 ms

bwlJqueryNewsTicker.js

bwlJqueryNewsTicker.js

20175 ms

normalize.css

normalize.css

1574 ms

skeleton.css

skeleton.css

1699 ms

layout.css

layout.css

1652 ms

main.css

main.css

1775 ms

custom.css

custom.css

1719 ms

superfish.css

superfish.css

1739 ms

jquery.fancybox.css

jquery.fancybox.css

1757 ms

jquery.fancybox-buttons.css

jquery.fancybox-buttons.css

1778 ms

owl.carousel.css

owl.carousel.css

1798 ms

owl.theme.css

owl.theme.css

1900 ms

animate.css

animate.css

1824 ms

breakingNews.css

breakingNews.css

1841 ms

responsive-tabs.css

responsive-tabs.css

1859 ms

style.css

style.css

1981 ms

rating.css

rating.css

1917 ms

css

css

32 ms

font-awesome.min.css

font-awesome.min.css

26 ms

IMG_6091_cut.jpg

IMG_6091_cut.jpg

213 ms

cycle_tours_and_bags_8.png

cycle_tours_and_bags_8.png

183 ms

search_icon.png

search_icon.png

205 ms

african_cycle_tour_rhino1.png

african_cycle_tour_rhino1.png

228 ms

koeberg_trails.jpg

koeberg_trails.jpg

423 ms

cycle_cape_town.jpg

cycle_cape_town.jpg

441 ms

mountain_bike_cape_town.jpg

mountain_bike_cape_town.jpg

734 ms

cape_town_tours.jpg

cape_town_tours.jpg

779 ms

cycle_africa_bike_bags_1.png

cycle_africa_bike_bags_1.png

919 ms

tool_roll_mounted.jpg

tool_roll_mounted.jpg

959 ms

Bike_packing_stem_bag.jpg

Bike_packing_stem_bag.jpg

1124 ms

Bike_packing_seat_bag.jpg

Bike_packing_seat_bag.jpg

1141 ms

Bike_packing_handlebar_barrel_ba.jpg

Bike_packing_handlebar_barrel_ba.jpg

1345 ms

top_tube_twin_pack.jpg

top_tube_twin_pack.jpg

1167 ms

powered-by-xms-systems-hosted-by-exelwebs.png

powered-by-xms-systems-hosted-by-exelwebs.png

1186 ms

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43 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

33 ms

1Ptxg8zYS_SKggPN4iEgvnHyvveLxVvaorCIPrQ.ttf

1Ptxg8zYS_SKggPN4iEgvnHyvveLxVvaorCIPrQ.ttf

11 ms

up-arrow.png

up-arrow.png

1273 ms

collect

collect

13 ms

collect

collect

25 ms

js

js

65 ms

dark-bottom.css

dark-bottom.css

16 ms

Accessibility Review

cycle-africa.co.za accessibility score

97

Accessibility Issues

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Best Practices

cycle-africa.co.za best practices score

67

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

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

cycle-africa.co.za SEO score

93

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

Links do not have descriptive text

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 Cycle-africa.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 Cycle-africa.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

cycle-africa.co.za

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of Cycle Africa. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: