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Report Summary

  • 33

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    53% of other websites

  • 97

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 91% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    94% of websites

ekala.co.za

Ekala Guest House - Johannesburg countryside accommodation

Page Load Speed

5 sec in total

First Response

538 ms

Resources Loaded

3.7 sec

Page Rendered

810 ms

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About Website

Visit ekala.co.za now to see the best up-to-date Ekala content for South Africa and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about ekala.co.za

Unique Johannesburg guest house accommodation as part of cultural-historical tour and safari packages. Countryside guest house accommodation.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Ekala.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 538 ms and then it took 4.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 70% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

ekala.co.za performance score

33

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.7 s

30/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value12.7 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.8 s

15/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value740 ms

40/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.056

98/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value11.3 s

19/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

ekala.co.za

538 ms

658 ms

js

62 ms

style.min.css

341 ms

style.css

519 ms

Our browser made a total of 67 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Ekala.co.za, 31% (21 requests) were made to Ebzebr3a3zt.exactdn.com and 30% (20 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.2 sec) relates to the external source Ebzebr3a3zt.exactdn.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 386.2 kB (38%)

Content Size

1.0 MB

After Optimization

621.4 kB

  • HTML
  • Images

In fact, the total size of Ekala.co.za main page is 1.0 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 563.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 386.2 kB

  • Original 444.0 kB
  • After minification 440.6 kB
  • After compression 57.8 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 386.2 kB or 87% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 12 B

  • Original 563.6 kB
  • After minification 563.6 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. Ekala images are well optimized though.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 18 (42%)

Requests Now

43

After Optimization

25

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 43 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Ekala. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 19 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

ekala.co.za

ekala.co.za

538 ms

658 ms

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62 ms

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style.min.css

341 ms

style.css

style.css

519 ms

frontend-gtag.min.js

frontend-gtag.min.js

510 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

670 ms

jquery-migrate.min.js

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502 ms

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105 ms

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501 ms

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858 ms

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857 ms

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389 ms

North-side-of-guest-house.jpg

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350 ms

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345 ms

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342 ms

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332 ms

Ekala-upper-and-lower-lounges-1.jpg

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683 ms

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634 ms

Ekala-Guest-Farm-Sunset-accros-braai.jpg

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639 ms

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739 ms

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667 ms

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style.min.css

518 ms

Accessibility Review

ekala.co.za accessibility score

97

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

Best Practices

ekala.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

ekala.co.za SEO score

100

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

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 Ekala.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 Ekala.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

ekala.co.za

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