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Report Summary

  • 29

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    49% of other websites

  • 96

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 88% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    83% of websites

fch.co.za

Franschhoek Country House and Villa's - A 5 Star Luxury Hotel Accommodation experience in the Heart of the Franschhoek Valley | FCH

Page Load Speed

2.2 sec in total

First Response

90 ms

Resources Loaded

1.5 sec

Page Rendered

640 ms

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About Website

Visit fch.co.za now to see the best up-to-date FCH content and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about fch.co.za

Welcome to Franschhoek Country House & Villas, your 5 star hotel accommodation in the heart of the Franschhoek valley complimented by the well known Monneaux Restaurant.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Fch.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 90 ms and then it took 2.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 40% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

fch.co.za performance score

29

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.8 s

27/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.4 s

4/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.4 s

57/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,310 ms

18/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.128

82/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value12.0 s

16/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

fch.co.za

90 ms

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127 ms

www.fch.co.za

86 ms

www.fch.co.za

144 ms

css

91 ms

Our browser made a total of 53 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 9% of them (5 requests) were addressed to the original Fch.co.za, 57% (30 requests) were made to B-cdn.springnest.com and 11% (6 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (835 ms) relates to the external source B-cdn.springnest.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 107.9 kB (3%)

Content Size

3.1 MB

After Optimization

3.0 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Fch.co.za main page is 3.1 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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 2.9 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 90.1 kB

  • Original 110.1 kB
  • After minification 85.6 kB
  • After compression 20.0 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 24.5 kB, which is 22% 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 90.1 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 7.5 kB

  • Original 2.9 MB
  • After minification 2.9 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. FCH images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 47 B

  • Original 55.7 kB
  • After minification 55.7 kB
  • After compression 55.6 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

-15%

Potential reduce by 10.2 kB

  • Original 68.4 kB
  • After minification 68.4 kB
  • After compression 58.2 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. Fch.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 10.2 kB or 15% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 13 (33%)

Requests Now

40

After Optimization

27

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 40 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of FCH. 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 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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90 ms

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127 ms

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86 ms

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144 ms

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91 ms

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455 ms

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650 ms

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835 ms

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670 ms

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454 ms

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455 ms

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162 ms

Accessibility Review

fch.co.za accessibility score

96

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.

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

fch.co.za best practices score

83

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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

fch.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 Fch.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 Fch.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

fch.co.za

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