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Report Summary

  • 80

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    86% of other websites

  • 65

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 30% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 69

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    28% of websites

hideaways.co.za

Underberg Hideaways - Self Catering Country Retreats

Page Load Speed

3.2 sec in total

First Response

772 ms

Resources Loaded

2.3 sec

Page Rendered

138 ms

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About Website

Visit hideaways.co.za now to see the best up-to-date Hideaways content and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about hideaways.co.za

Underberg Hideaways is a reservations and booking agent for guesthouses, self catering country cottages, farmstays, bushcamps and trails in the Drakensberg and Midlands regions of Kwazulu-Natal, Repub...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Hideaways.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 772 ms and then it took 2.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

hideaways.co.za performance score

80

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.7 s

93/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.0 s

26/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value2.8 s

96/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.009

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value1.7 s

100/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

hideaways.co.za

772 ms

layout.css

339 ms

urchin.js

8 ms

GREYBACK_small.GIF

615 ms

yellowbkg_small.jpg

615 ms

Our browser made a total of 11 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 82% of them (9 requests) were addressed to the original Hideaways.co.za, 18% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.5 sec) belongs to the original domain Hideaways.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 8.3 kB (5%)

Content Size

181.1 kB

After Optimization

172.7 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Hideaways.co.za main page is 181.1 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. Images take 163.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-60%

Potential reduce by 2.8 kB

  • Original 4.7 kB
  • After minification 4.2 kB
  • After compression 1.9 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 535 B, which is 11% 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 2.8 kB or 60% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 163.7 kB
  • After minification 163.7 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. Hideaways images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-14%

Potential reduce by 971 B

  • Original 6.8 kB
  • After minification 6.8 kB
  • After compression 5.9 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 971 B or 14% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 4.5 kB

  • Original 5.7 kB
  • After minification 4.2 kB
  • After compression 1.2 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. Hideaways.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 4.5 kB or 79% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

10

After Optimization

10

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 10 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Hideaways. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Network Requests Diagram

hideaways.co.za

hideaways.co.za

772 ms

layout.css

layout.css

339 ms

urchin.js

urchin.js

8 ms

GREYBACK_small.GIF

GREYBACK_small.GIF

615 ms

yellowbkg_small.jpg

yellowbkg_small.jpg

615 ms

avocado_small.gif

avocado_small.gif

619 ms

berg_cottage.jpg

berg_cottage.jpg

1536 ms

GREYBACK.GIF

GREYBACK.GIF

623 ms

yellowbkg.jpg

yellowbkg.jpg

644 ms

avocado.gif

avocado.gif

914 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

5 ms

Accessibility Review

hideaways.co.za accessibility score

65

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

hideaways.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

SEO Factors

hideaways.co.za SEO score

69

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Hideaways.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 Hideaways.co.za main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

hideaways.co.za

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