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Report Summary

  • 83

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    87% of other websites

  • 94

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 83% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 85

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    55% of websites

earthcottage.co.za

Self-catering accommodation Hemel-en-Aarde Valley, Hermanus | Earth Cottage

Page Load Speed

6.5 sec in total

First Response

982 ms

Resources Loaded

5.5 sec

Page Rendered

57 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Earthcottage.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 982 ms 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

earthcottage.co.za performance score

83

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.0 s

83/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.0 s

79/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value10.9 s

6/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value90 ms

99/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.043

99/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value2.8 s

97/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

earthcottage.co.za

982 ms

earthcottage.co.za

2844 ms

8bd7764eb207f65d8b48d755f225d711.css

234 ms

icomoon.css

467 ms

frontend.min.css

735 ms

Our browser made a total of 15 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that all of those requests were addressed to Earthcottage.co.za and no external sources were called. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.8 sec) belongs to the original domain Earthcottage.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 10.9 kB (4%)

Content Size

260.4 kB

After Optimization

249.5 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Earthcottage.co.za main page is 260.4 kB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. Only 10% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 162.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-72%

Potential reduce by 3.7 kB

  • Original 5.2 kB
  • After minification 5.0 kB
  • After compression 1.4 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 3.7 kB or 72% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 619 B

  • Original 77.2 kB
  • After minification 76.6 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. Earth Cottage images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 6.3 kB

  • Original 162.7 kB
  • After minification 162.7 kB
  • After compression 156.4 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

-1%

Potential reduce by 210 B

  • Original 15.3 kB
  • After minification 15.3 kB
  • After compression 15.0 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. Earthcottage.co.za has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 7 (54%)

Requests Now

13

After Optimization

6

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 13 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Earth Cottage. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 8 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

earthcottage.co.za

earthcottage.co.za

982 ms

earthcottage.co.za

earthcottage.co.za

2844 ms

8bd7764eb207f65d8b48d755f225d711.css

8bd7764eb207f65d8b48d755f225d711.css

234 ms

icomoon.css

icomoon.css

467 ms

frontend.min.css

frontend.min.css

735 ms

jquery.js

jquery.js

1188 ms

jquery-migrate.js

jquery-migrate.js

732 ms

jquery.countdown.js

jquery.countdown.js

697 ms

swiper-bundle.js

swiper-bundle.js

1164 ms

jquery.vegas.js

jquery.vegas.js

705 ms

jquery.lettering.js

jquery.lettering.js

929 ms

jquery.textillate.js

jquery.textillate.js

940 ms

frontend.js

frontend.js

962 ms

loading.gif

loading.gif

234 ms

earthcottage_hermanus_logo.jpg

earthcottage_hermanus_logo.jpg

460 ms

Accessibility Review

earthcottage.co.za accessibility score

94

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

Document doesn't have a <title> element

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

earthcottage.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

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

earthcottage.co.za SEO score

85

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

Document doesn't have a <title> element

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

robots.txt is not valid

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 Earthcottage.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 Earthcottage.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

earthcottage.co.za

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Earth Cottage. 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: