Report Summary

  • 23

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    41% of other websites

  • 84

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 56% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 91

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    70% of websites

flysafair.com

South Africa’s Favourite Low Cost Airline | FlySafair

Page Load Speed

1.3 sec in total

First Response

512 ms

Resources Loaded

740 ms

Page Rendered

62 ms

flysafair.com screenshot

About Website

Welcome to flysafair.com homepage info - get ready to check Fly Safair best content right away, or after learning these important things about flysafair.com

Find the cheapest fares directly at FlySafair - South Africa's favourite low cost airline. Flights to Joburg, Cape Town, Durban, PE, East London & George.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Flysafair.com page load time and found that the first response time was 512 ms and then it took 802 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 15% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

flysafair.com performance score

23

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.1 s

47/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.8 s

3/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.4 s

12/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,450 ms

5/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.063

97/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value15.7 s

6/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

flysafair.com

512 ms

www.flysafair.co.za

106 ms

css2

39 ms

icon

55 ms

datadog-logs-us.js

22 ms

Our browser made a total of 15 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 7% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Flysafair.com, 40% (6 requests) were made to Flysafair.co.za and 33% (5 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (512 ms) belongs to the original domain Flysafair.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 4.2 kB (3%)

Content Size

125.5 kB

After Optimization

121.3 kB

In fact, the total size of Flysafair.com main page is 125.5 kB. 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 10% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 91.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-60%

Potential reduce by 3.9 kB

  • Original 6.4 kB
  • After minification 6.4 kB
  • After compression 2.5 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 3.9 kB or 60% of the original size.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 350 B

  • Original 91.8 kB
  • After minification 91.8 kB
  • After compression 91.5 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

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 27.3 kB
  • After minification 27.3 kB
  • After compression 27.3 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. Flysafair.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 4 (50%)

Requests Now

8

After Optimization

4

The browser has sent 8 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Fly Safair. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 5 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

flysafair.com accessibility score

84

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

Elements with an ARIA [role] that require children to contain a specific [role] are missing some or all of those required children.

High

[role]s are not contained by their required parent element

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.

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

List items (<li>) are not contained within <ul> or <ol> parent elements.

Best Practices

flysafair.com best practices score

83

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

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

flysafair.com SEO score

91

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 Flysafair.com 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 Flysafair.com 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

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