Report Summary

  • 67

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    79% of other websites

  • 85

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 58% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 69

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    28% of websites

houseonthehillct.co.za

House on the Hill Cape Town - Green Point | Guest House B&B Self-catering Accommodation

Page Load Speed

3.8 sec in total

First Response

767 ms

Resources Loaded

2.9 sec

Page Rendered

140 ms

houseonthehillct.co.za screenshot

About Website

Click here to check amazing House Onthe Hill Ct content. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about houseonthehillct.co.za

House on the Hill Cape Town is a guest house, b&b and self-catering accommodation in Green Point.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Houseonthehillct.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 767 ms and then it took 3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 55% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

houseonthehillct.co.za performance score

67

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.1 s

22/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.5 s

19/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.1 s

61/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value10 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value4.2 s

86/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

houseonthehillct.co.za

767 ms

www.houseonthehillct.co.za

775 ms

style.css

266 ms

wejs

82 ms

WidgetEmbed-certificateOfExcellence

46 ms

Our browser made a total of 25 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 72% of them (18 requests) were addressed to the original Houseonthehillct.co.za, 12% (3 requests) were made to Tripadvisor.com and 8% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1 sec) belongs to the original domain Houseonthehillct.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 8.4 kB (14%)

Content Size

58.9 kB

After Optimization

50.5 kB

In fact, the total size of Houseonthehillct.co.za main page is 58.9 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. 15% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 36.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by -8 B

  • Original 0 B

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 web page is already compressed.

Image Optimization

-22%

Potential reduce by 8.0 kB

  • Original 36.7 kB
  • After minification 28.6 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. Obviously, House Onthe Hill Ct needs image optimization as it can save up to 8.0 kB or 22% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 45 B

  • Original 17.8 kB
  • After minification 17.8 kB
  • After compression 17.8 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

-8%

Potential reduce by 341 B

  • Original 4.4 kB
  • After minification 4.4 kB
  • After compression 4.1 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. Houseonthehillct.co.za has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 3 (13%)

Requests Now

23

After Optimization

20

The browser has sent 23 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of House Onthe Hill Ct. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 4 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

houseonthehillct.co.za accessibility score

85

Accessibility Issues

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

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

houseonthehillct.co.za best practices score

75

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

houseonthehillct.co.za SEO score

69

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

robots.txt is not valid

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Houseonthehillct.co.za can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Houseonthehillct.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

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of House Onthe Hill Ct. 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: