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Report Summary

  • 45

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    64% of other websites

  • 52

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 21% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    20% of websites

  • 67

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    26% of websites

flights24.co.za

Book Flights | Compare Flights Online | South Africa

Page Load Speed

4.4 sec in total

First Response

1.2 sec

Resources Loaded

3.1 sec

Page Rendered

65 ms

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About Website

Welcome to flights24.co.za homepage info - get ready to check Flights 24 best content right away, or after learning these important things about flights24.co.za

Compare and Book Cheap Flights Online for both Domestic Flights and International Flights from all major Airlines flying within and to South Africa. Low Cost Airlines included.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Flights24.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 1.2 sec and then it took 3.2 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

flights24.co.za performance score

45

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.0 s

85/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.4 s

67/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.1 s

44/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value9,270 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value27.9 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

flights24.co.za

1179 ms

jquery.min.js

6 ms

jquery.ba-postmessage.min.js

433 ms

flights24.jpg

514 ms

bluedot.gif

506 ms

Our browser made a total of 18 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 17% of them (3 requests) were addressed to the original Flights24.co.za, 56% (10 requests) were made to Travelstart.co.za and 6% (1 request) were made to Ajax.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.2 sec) belongs to the original domain Flights24.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 65.6 kB (2%)

Content Size

3.0 MB

After Optimization

2.9 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Flights24.co.za main page is 3.0 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. 15% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 2.9 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 24.4 kB

  • Original 29.0 kB
  • After minification 27.3 kB
  • After compression 4.6 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 24.4 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 7.1 kB
  • After minification 7.1 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. Flights 24 images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 41.2 kB

  • Original 2.9 MB
  • After minification 2.9 MB
  • After compression 2.8 MB

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

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 51.3 kB
  • After minification 51.3 kB
  • After compression 51.3 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. Flights24.co.za has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 10 (59%)

Requests Now

17

After Optimization

7

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 17 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Flights 24. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 11 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

flights24.co.za

flights24.co.za

1179 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

6 ms

jquery.ba-postmessage.min.js

jquery.ba-postmessage.min.js

433 ms

flights24.jpg

flights24.jpg

514 ms

bluedot.gif

bluedot.gif

506 ms

counter.js

counter.js

28 ms

search-on-index

search-on-index

403 ms

t.php

t.php

86 ms

newrelic.js

newrelic.js

475 ms

styles.d433bcf7cc3726a4fb34.css

styles.d433bcf7cc3726a4fb34.css

519 ms

runtime-es2015.533b4b6bd146aa25d0ff.js

runtime-es2015.533b4b6bd146aa25d0ff.js

252 ms

runtime-es5.533b4b6bd146aa25d0ff.js

runtime-es5.533b4b6bd146aa25d0ff.js

308 ms

polyfills-es5.e23a4cdf2dd931710489.js

polyfills-es5.e23a4cdf2dd931710489.js

474 ms

polyfills-es2015.2e5bc6810893bf06e3c1.js

polyfills-es2015.2e5bc6810893bf06e3c1.js

363 ms

scripts.f8cd5015f8c46c82da88.js

scripts.f8cd5015f8c46c82da88.js

508 ms

main-es2015.129e6423bccbf9c19578.js

main-es2015.129e6423bccbf9c19578.js

1090 ms

main-es5.129e6423bccbf9c19578.js

main-es5.129e6423bccbf9c19578.js

1109 ms

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39 ms

Accessibility Review

flights24.co.za accessibility score

52

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

Best Practices

flights24.co.za best practices score

58

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

Serves images with low resolution

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

flights24.co.za SEO score

67

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    WINDOWS-1252

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Flights24.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 Flights24.co.za main page’s claimed encoding is windows-1252. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

flights24.co.za

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Flights 24. 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: