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Report Summary

  • 1

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    19% of other websites

  • 95

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 86% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    83% of websites

heronbanks.co.za

Heron Banks River and Golf Estate on the banks of the Vaal River

Page Load Speed

14 sec in total

First Response

2.5 sec

Resources Loaded

11.2 sec

Page Rendered

255 ms

heronbanks.co.za screenshot

About Website

Click here to check amazing Heron Banks content. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about heronbanks.co.za

Outdoor lifestyle at its best - Discover the freedom of 3km Riverfront on banks of the Vaal River. Exclusive safe haven for all with a 18 Hole Golf Course.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Heronbanks.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 2.5 sec and then it took 11.5 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

heronbanks.co.za performance score

1

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.5 s

2/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value22.5 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value23.4 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,400 ms

2/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.973

2/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value22.7 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.heronbanks.co.za

2509 ms

style.min.css

313 ms

embed-public.min.css

623 ms

yui3.css

908 ms

fl-slideshow.min.css

911 ms

Our browser made a total of 87 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 66% of them (57 requests) were addressed to the original Heronbanks.co.za, 10% (9 requests) were made to Youtube.com and 10% (9 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.8 sec) belongs to the original domain Heronbanks.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 105.2 kB (4%)

Content Size

2.8 MB

After Optimization

2.7 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Heronbanks.co.za main page is 2.8 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. 80% 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 2.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 45.5 kB

  • Original 57.8 kB
  • After minification 56.3 kB
  • After compression 12.3 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 45.5 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 17.3 kB

  • Original 2.2 MB
  • After minification 2.2 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. Heron Banks images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-9%

Potential reduce by 35.8 kB

  • Original 382.9 kB
  • After minification 382.7 kB
  • After compression 347.1 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 6.7 kB

  • Original 150.8 kB
  • After minification 150.4 kB
  • After compression 144.2 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. Heronbanks.co.za has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 46 (66%)

Requests Now

70

After Optimization

24

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 70 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Heron Banks. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 26 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 22 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

www.heronbanks.co.za

www.heronbanks.co.za

2509 ms

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313 ms

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911 ms

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952 ms

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40 ms

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1949 ms

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1949 ms

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1953 ms

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2366 ms

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2371 ms

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2387 ms

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2536 ms

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Accessibility Review

heronbanks.co.za accessibility score

95

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

Best Practices

heronbanks.co.za 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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

heronbanks.co.za SEO score

93

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

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 Heronbanks.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 Heronbanks.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

heronbanks.co.za

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