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Report Summary

  • 32

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    52% of other websites

  • 81

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 51% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

illuminatephotography.co.za

Illuminate Photography | Cape Town Wedding and Portrait photographer

Page Load Speed

10.7 sec in total

First Response

1.9 sec

Resources Loaded

8.5 sec

Page Rendered

322 ms

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About Website

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

Illuminate Photography. Wedding and Portrait Photography in Cape Town. Home. Life is made up of millions of fleeting moments. To freeze some of these in time in a creative and meaningful way- that is ...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Illuminatephotography.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 1.9 sec and then it took 8.8 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

illuminatephotography.co.za performance score

32

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.4 s

2/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value11.2 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value18.5 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value170 ms

93/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.614

10/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value11.0 s

21/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

illuminatephotography.co.za

1868 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

247 ms

shortcodes.css

492 ms

style.min.css

740 ms

style.css

742 ms

Our browser made a total of 73 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 92% of them (67 requests) were addressed to the original Illuminatephotography.co.za, 3% (2 requests) were made to Platform.twitter.com and 3% (2 requests) were made to Apis.google.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.2 sec) belongs to the original domain Illuminatephotography.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 357.1 kB (7%)

Content Size

4.8 MB

After Optimization

4.5 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Illuminatephotography.co.za main page is 4.8 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. 50% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 4.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 56.4 kB

  • Original 67.3 kB
  • After minification 61.3 kB
  • After compression 10.8 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. 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 56.4 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 280.8 kB

  • Original 4.4 MB
  • After minification 4.1 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. Illuminate Photography images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 11.2 kB

  • Original 231.0 kB
  • After minification 230.6 kB
  • After compression 219.8 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

-9%

Potential reduce by 8.7 kB

  • Original 97.3 kB
  • After minification 97.0 kB
  • After compression 88.6 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. Illuminatephotography.co.za has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 44 (64%)

Requests Now

69

After Optimization

25

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 69 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Illuminate Photography. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 30 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 16 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

illuminatephotography.co.za

illuminatephotography.co.za

1868 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

wp-emoji-release.min.js

247 ms

shortcodes.css

shortcodes.css

492 ms

style.min.css

style.min.css

740 ms

style.css

style.css

742 ms

cosmo-widgets.css

cosmo-widgets.css

750 ms

fontello.css

fontello.css

753 ms

foundation.min.css

foundation.min.css

755 ms

ie.css

ie.css

753 ms

style.css

style.css

985 ms

royalslider.css

royalslider.css

983 ms

rs-default.css

rs-default.css

997 ms

slick.css

slick.css

1007 ms

jquery.fancybox.css

jquery.fancybox.css

1254 ms

css

css

41 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

1256 ms

jquery-migrate.min.js

jquery-migrate.min.js

1227 ms

placeholders.min.js

placeholders.min.js

1227 ms

respond.min.js

respond.min.js

1246 ms

jquery.sticky.js

jquery.sticky.js

1268 ms

skrollr.min.js

skrollr.min.js

1472 ms

stylesheet.css

stylesheet.css

1472 ms

stylesheet.css

stylesheet.css

1492 ms

overrides.css

overrides.css

1500 ms

widgets.js

widgets.js

27 ms

core.min.js

core.min.js

1542 ms

accordion.min.js

accordion.min.js

1543 ms

tabs.min.js

tabs.min.js

1714 ms

cosmo-shortcodes-lib.js

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1714 ms

nprogress-min.js

nprogress-min.js

1738 ms

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1747 ms

jquery.easing.1.3.js

jquery.easing.1.3.js

1757 ms

jquery.royalslider.min.js

jquery.royalslider.min.js

2007 ms

slick.min.js

slick.min.js

1960 ms

jquery.fancybox.pack.js

jquery.fancybox.pack.js

1959 ms

hoverIntent.min.js

hoverIntent.min.js

1987 ms

jquery.scrollTo-1.4.2-min.js

jquery.scrollTo-1.4.2-min.js

1994 ms

jquery.flocookie.js

jquery.flocookie.js

1999 ms

jquery.isotope.min.js

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2205 ms

sly.min.js

sly.min.js

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imagesloaded.pkgd.min.js

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1752 ms

functions-min.js

functions-min.js

1518 ms

comment-reply.min.js

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1519 ms

actions-min.js

actions-min.js

1519 ms

wp-embed.min.js

wp-embed.min.js

1705 ms

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background.jpg

994 ms

logo1.png

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254 ms

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995 ms

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1000 ms

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32 ms

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1741 ms

fontello.woff

fontello.woff

1720 ms

arapey-italic-webfont.woff

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1912 ms

cb=gapi.loaded_0

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6 ms

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179 ms

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988 ms

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754 ms

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737 ms

preloader-white.gif

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260 ms

Accessibility Review

illuminatephotography.co.za accessibility score

81

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

illuminatephotography.co.za best practices score

67

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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

illuminatephotography.co.za SEO score

86

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

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 Illuminatephotography.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 Illuminatephotography.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

illuminatephotography.co.za

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