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Report Summary

  • 16

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    30% of other websites

  • 86

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 61% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 83

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    46% of websites

exploresideways.co.za

Luxury Experiences and Private Tours | Explore Sideways

Page Load Speed

5 sec in total

First Response

849 ms

Resources Loaded

3.6 sec

Page Rendered

588 ms

exploresideways.co.za screenshot

About Website

Welcome to exploresideways.co.za homepage info - get ready to check Explore Sideways best content for South Africa right away, or after learning these important things about exploresideways.co.za

Explore Sideways is a luxury travel company specialising in exclusive, private tours and experiences to the curious and discerning traveller.

Visit exploresideways.co.za

Key Findings

We analyzed Exploresideways.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 849 ms and then it took 4.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 65% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

exploresideways.co.za performance score

16

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.1 s

8/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value16.9 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value18.9 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,390 ms

2/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.012

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value31.9 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

exploresideways.co.za

849 ms

exploresideways.com

482 ms

style.min.css

28 ms

styles.css

31 ms

icons.css

39 ms

Our browser made a total of 147 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Exploresideways.co.za, 82% (121 requests) were made to Exploresideways.com and 3% (5 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.1 sec) relates to the external source Exploresideways.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 272.5 kB (8%)

Content Size

3.5 MB

After Optimization

3.2 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Exploresideways.co.za main page is 3.5 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. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Images take 2.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 113.4 kB

  • Original 141.8 kB
  • After minification 141.7 kB
  • After compression 28.4 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 113.4 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 2 B

  • Original 2.0 MB
  • After minification 2.0 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. Explore Sideways images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-14%

Potential reduce by 157.0 kB

  • Original 1.1 MB
  • After minification 1.1 MB
  • After compression 966.7 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 157.0 kB or 14% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 2.1 kB

  • Original 286.8 kB
  • After minification 284.8 kB
  • After compression 284.8 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. Exploresideways.co.za has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 102 (80%)

Requests Now

128

After Optimization

26

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 128 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Explore Sideways. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 78 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 26 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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849 ms

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482 ms

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Accessibility Review

exploresideways.co.za accessibility score

86

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

[aria-*] attributes do not match their roles

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

exploresideways.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

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

exploresideways.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

Crawling and Indexing

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

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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 Exploresideways.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 Exploresideways.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

exploresideways.co.za

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