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Report Summary

  • 49

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    67% of other websites

  • 98

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 94% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 83

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    46% of websites

edendm.co.za

Garden Route District Municipality – Your route to prosperity

Page Load Speed

3.9 sec in total

First Response

420 ms

Resources Loaded

3.1 sec

Page Rendered

349 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Edendm.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 420 ms and then it took 3.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 60% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

edendm.co.za performance score

49

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.7 s

12/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.5 s

18/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value12.2 s

3/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value170 ms

93/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.081

94/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value12.7 s

14/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.gardenroute.gov.za

420 ms

www.gardenroute.gov.za

442 ms

style.css

91 ms

style.css

173 ms

general.css

339 ms

Our browser made a total of 52 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 0% of them (0 request) were addressed to the original Edendm.co.za, 12% (6 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 4% (2 requests) were made to Cdn.websitepolicies.io. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (885 ms) relates to the external source Gardenroute.gov.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 459.1 kB (4%)

Content Size

10.6 MB

After Optimization

10.2 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Edendm.co.za main page is 10.6 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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 10.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-90%

Potential reduce by 187.7 kB

  • Original 208.7 kB
  • After minification 158.4 kB
  • After compression 21.0 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 50.3 kB, which is 24% 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 187.7 kB or 90% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 253.0 kB

  • Original 10.2 MB
  • After minification 9.9 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. Edendm images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-11%

Potential reduce by 17.3 kB

  • Original 162.5 kB
  • After minification 162.5 kB
  • After compression 145.2 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 17.3 kB or 11% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 1.0 kB

  • Original 88.5 kB
  • After minification 87.9 kB
  • After compression 87.5 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. Edendm.co.za has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 15 (35%)

Requests Now

43

After Optimization

28

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 43 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Edendm. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 10 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

www.gardenroute.gov.za

www.gardenroute.gov.za

420 ms

www.gardenroute.gov.za

www.gardenroute.gov.za

442 ms

style.css

style.css

91 ms

style.css

style.css

173 ms

general.css

general.css

339 ms

css

css

33 ms

bluegrey.css

bluegrey.css

254 ms

js_composer.min.css

js_composer.min.css

416 ms

jquery.js

jquery.js

434 ms

jquery-migrate.js

jquery-migrate.js

256 ms

lsvr-events.min.js

lsvr-events.min.js

257 ms

lsvr-townpress-toolkit-weather-widget.min.js

lsvr-townpress-toolkit-weather-widget.min.js

336 ms

cconsent.min.js

cconsent.min.js

36 ms

core.js

core.js

343 ms

datepicker.js

datepicker.js

343 ms

townpress-third-party-scripts.min.js

townpress-third-party-scripts.min.js

552 ms

townpress-scripts.min.js

townpress-scripts.min.js

476 ms

js_composer_front.min.js

js_composer_front.min.js

476 ms

cropped-Garden_route-DM.png

cropped-Garden_route-DM.png

239 ms

Acceptance-Speech.jpg

Acceptance-Speech.jpg

393 ms

Facebook-public-notice.jpg

Facebook-public-notice.jpg

392 ms

Facebook-Special-Council-meeting.jpg

Facebook-Special-Council-meeting.jpg

377 ms

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20240723_121258.jpg

394 ms

Feature-scaled.jpg

Feature-scaled.jpg

639 ms

Facebook-public-notice.jpg

Facebook-public-notice.jpg

478 ms

IMG-20240723-WA0181.jpg

IMG-20240723-WA0181.jpg

624 ms

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IMG-20240722-WA0007-e1721803515331.jpg

474 ms

IMG-20240719-WA0017.jpg

IMG-20240719-WA0017.jpg

556 ms

Facebook-Council-meeting.jpg

Facebook-Council-meeting.jpg

478 ms

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3d3644cf-4428-4124-98d9-74071a1b1309-scaled.jpeg

720 ms

03-1.jpg

03-1.jpg

641 ms

Public-Notice.jpg

Public-Notice.jpg

561 ms

Audiologist-Nonkulukelo-Mtolo-assessing-Mr-Sydney-Bomsi.jpg

Audiologist-Nonkulukelo-Mtolo-assessing-Mr-Sydney-Bomsi.jpg

641 ms

20240613_103642-scaled.jpg

20240613_103642-scaled.jpg

725 ms

Mayor-Deputy-and-Chief-Whip.jpg

Mayor-Deputy-and-Chief-Whip.jpg

788 ms

01-1-scaled.jpg

01-1-scaled.jpg

804 ms

02.jpg

02.jpg

804 ms

GRSM.png

GRSM.png

723 ms

housing.jpg

housing.jpg

801 ms

wcedp.jpg

wcedp.jpg

806 ms

grandkk.jpg

grandkk.jpg

806 ms

footer_image.jpg

footer_image.jpg

871 ms

Coat-of-Arms-228x300.png

Coat-of-Arms-228x300.png

882 ms

Western-Cape-Government-transparent-background-300x101.png

Western-Cape-Government-transparent-background-300x101.png

885 ms

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103 ms

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147 ms

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148 ms

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148 ms

townpress-icons.ttf

townpress-icons.ttf

796 ms

cconsent.min.css

cconsent.min.css

8 ms

Accessibility Review

edendm.co.za accessibility score

98

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

edendm.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

edendm.co.za SEO score

83

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

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 Edendm.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 Edendm.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

edendm.co.za

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