Report Summary

  • 65

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    79% of other websites

  • 94

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 84% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 82

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    44% of websites

gkstellenbosch.co.za

Gereformeerde Kerk Reformed Church Stellenbosch – 'n Leivoor van God se liefde

Page Load Speed

5.8 sec in total

First Response

1 sec

Resources Loaded

4.6 sec

Page Rendered

222 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Gkstellenbosch.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 1 sec and then it took 4.8 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

gkstellenbosch.co.za performance score

65

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.3 s

18/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.8 s

31/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.9 s

23/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value10 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.047

99/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value4.5 s

82/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.gkstellenbosch.co.za

1029 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

293 ms

css

72 ms

fontawesome.min.css

560 ms

bootstrap.min.css

565 ms

Our browser made a total of 19 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 68% of them (13 requests) were addressed to the original Gkstellenbosch.co.za, 26% (5 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 5% (1 request) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.6 sec) belongs to the original domain Gkstellenbosch.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 180.5 kB (41%)

Content Size

437.8 kB

After Optimization

257.3 kB

In fact, the total size of Gkstellenbosch.co.za main page is 437.8 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. 25% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 190.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-74%

Potential reduce by 13.1 kB

  • Original 17.8 kB
  • After minification 15.7 kB
  • After compression 4.7 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 2.1 kB, which is 12% 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 13.1 kB or 74% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 190.6 kB
  • After minification 190.6 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. Gk Stellenbosch images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-68%

Potential reduce by 95.6 kB

  • Original 141.5 kB
  • After minification 140.6 kB
  • After compression 45.9 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 95.6 kB or 68% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 71.8 kB

  • Original 87.9 kB
  • After minification 71.7 kB
  • After compression 16.1 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. Gkstellenbosch.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 71.8 kB or 82% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 9 (69%)

Requests Now

13

After Optimization

4

The browser has sent 13 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Gk Stellenbosch. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 7 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

gkstellenbosch.co.za accessibility score

94

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

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

gkstellenbosch.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

gkstellenbosch.co.za SEO score

82

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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

    AF

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Gkstellenbosch.co.za can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that Afrikaans is used on the page, and it does not match the claimed English language. Our system also found out that Gkstellenbosch.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

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Gk Stellenbosch. 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: