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Report Summary

  • 41

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    60% of other websites

  • 82

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 52% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 81

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    42% of websites

hermanus.co.za

Home

Page Load Speed

11.1 sec in total

First Response

695 ms

Resources Loaded

9.3 sec

Page Rendered

1.1 sec

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Hermanus.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 695 ms and then it took 10.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 90% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

hermanus.co.za performance score

41

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.3 s

3/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.4 s

4/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value13.7 s

1/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value220 ms

87/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.193

64/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value8.2 s

40/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

hermanus.co.za

695 ms

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2083 ms

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28 ms

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224 ms

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446 ms

Our browser made a total of 132 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 92% of them (121 requests) were addressed to the original Hermanus.co.za, 5% (6 requests) were made to Use.typekit.net and 2% (2 requests) were made to Stackpath.bootstrapcdn.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.6 sec) belongs to the original domain Hermanus.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.2 MB (5%)

Content Size

24.8 MB

After Optimization

23.6 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Hermanus.co.za main page is 24.8 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. 75% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Images take 24.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 119.9 kB

  • Original 140.6 kB
  • After minification 137.0 kB
  • After compression 20.7 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. 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 119.9 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 1.0 MB

  • Original 24.3 MB
  • After minification 23.3 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. Hermanus images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-21%

Potential reduce by 50.7 kB

  • Original 238.8 kB
  • After minification 238.8 kB
  • After compression 188.1 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 50.7 kB or 21% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-26%

Potential reduce by 35.3 kB

  • Original 134.1 kB
  • After minification 134.1 kB
  • After compression 98.8 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. Hermanus.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 35.3 kB or 26% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 42 (35%)

Requests Now

121

After Optimization

79

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 121 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Hermanus. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 23 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 21 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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Accessibility Review

hermanus.co.za accessibility score

82

Accessibility Issues

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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

Best Practices

hermanus.co.za best practices score

75

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

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

hermanus.co.za SEO score

81

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

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

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 Hermanus.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 Hermanus.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

hermanus.co.za

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