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Report Summary

  • 18

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    34% of other websites

  • 66

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 31% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 89

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    66% of websites

grootbos.com

Grootbos Private Nature Reserve™ | Official Website

Page Load Speed

8.7 sec in total

First Response

873 ms

Resources Loaded

7.2 sec

Page Rendered

652 ms

grootbos.com screenshot

About Website

Welcome to grootbos.com homepage info - get ready to check Grootbos best content for South Africa right away, or after learning these important things about grootbos.com

Official Website – Grootbos Private Nature Reserve™ is‎ an award-winning five-star eco-paradise. Experience breathtaking views of the panoramic ocean and fynbos from every angle.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Grootbos.com page load time and found that the first response time was 873 ms and then it took 7.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 85% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

grootbos.com performance score

18

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.4 s

2/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value17.4 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value13.8 s

1/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,050 ms

7/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.044

99/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value17.4 s

4/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

grootbos.com

873 ms

www.grootbos.com

869 ms

www.grootbos.com

1608 ms

en

679 ms

gtm.js

57 ms

Our browser made a total of 34 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 85% of them (29 requests) were addressed to the original Grootbos.com, 6% (2 requests) were made to Droidcoza.matomo.cloud and 3% (1 request) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.9 sec) belongs to the original domain Grootbos.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 172.2 kB (23%)

Content Size

736.9 kB

After Optimization

564.7 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Grootbos.com main page is 736.9 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. 35% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 291.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 76.1 kB

  • Original 92.9 kB
  • After minification 78.4 kB
  • After compression 16.8 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 14.5 kB, which is 16% 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 76.1 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 8.3 kB

  • Original 284.0 kB
  • After minification 275.7 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. Grootbos images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-30%

Potential reduce by 86.8 kB

  • Original 291.8 kB
  • After minification 291.8 kB
  • After compression 205.0 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 86.8 kB or 30% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 1.0 kB

  • Original 68.2 kB
  • After minification 68.2 kB
  • After compression 67.2 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. Grootbos.com has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 10 (43%)

Requests Now

23

After Optimization

13

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 23 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Grootbos. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 6 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

grootbos.com

grootbos.com

873 ms

www.grootbos.com

www.grootbos.com

869 ms

www.grootbos.com

www.grootbos.com

1608 ms

en

en

679 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

57 ms

jquery-1-9-1.min.js

jquery-1-9-1.min.js

847 ms

18579f76284f977160efa79c5544dff9f46067c3.css

18579f76284f977160efa79c5544dff9f46067c3.css

1447 ms

covid-sticky.min.css

covid-sticky.min.css

854 ms

font-awesome.css

font-awesome.css

855 ms

uc.js

uc.js

23 ms

0f3af08256fdd6933613e5753b3c02ec25f8ce57.js

0f3af08256fdd6933613e5753b3c02ec25f8ce57.js

1446 ms

matomo.js

matomo.js

28 ms

logo-white.png

logo-white.png

288 ms

footer-logo.jpg

footer-logo.jpg

289 ms

icon-facebook.jpg

icon-facebook.jpg

286 ms

icon-twitter.jpg

icon-twitter.jpg

287 ms

icon-youtube.jpg

icon-youtube.jpg

539 ms

icon-instagram.png

icon-instagram.png

567 ms

GothamLight.woff

GothamLight.woff

841 ms

GothamMedium.woff

GothamMedium.woff

550 ms

TrajanPro-Regular.woff

TrajanPro-Regular.woff

1400 ms

TrajanPro-Bold.woff

TrajanPro-Bold.woff

1089 ms

grootbos.woff

grootbos.woff

829 ms

GothamBook.woff

GothamBook.woff

840 ms

language-down-arrow.png

language-down-arrow.png

857 ms

close.png

close.png

1107 ms

matomo.php

matomo.php

495 ms

award-bg.jpg

award-bg.jpg

1059 ms

experience-bg.jpg

experience-bg.jpg

1908 ms

caption-shadow.png

caption-shadow.png

1074 ms

GothamBook-Italic.woff

GothamBook-Italic.woff

1317 ms

configs.php

configs.php

433 ms

close-icon.png

close-icon.png

1301 ms

footer-bg.jpg

footer-bg.jpg

1579 ms

Accessibility Review

grootbos.com accessibility score

66

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

High

ARIA input fields do not have accessible names

High

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

High

ARIA toggle fields do not have accessible names

High

[aria-*] attributes do not have valid values

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

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

grootbos.com 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

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

grootbos.com SEO score

89

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 Grootbos.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 Grootbos.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

grootbos.com

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