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Report Summary

  • 11

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    24% of other websites

  • 79

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 47% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 83

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    46% of websites

kariega.co.za

Safari Lodge South Africa Eastern Cape | Kariega Game Reserve

Page Load Speed

24.3 sec in total

First Response

547 ms

Resources Loaded

23.3 sec

Page Rendered

393 ms

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About Website

Click here to check amazing Kariega content for New Zealand. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about kariega.co.za

Kariega Private Game Reserve in Eastern Cape South Africa delivers the ultimate in malaria-free African safaris. View Big 5 animals & safari lodge accommodation.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Kariega.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 547 ms and then it took 23.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 95% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

kariega.co.za performance score

11

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value7.7 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value11.7 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value13.9 s

1/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,910 ms

8/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.265

46/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value11.8 s

17/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

kariega.co.za

547 ms

kariega.co.za

436 ms

www.kariega.co.za

2628 ms

css

35 ms

application-c605d0d72013948cd878e23657d99caeb95c5f3bf53ae536e064c22a8d6c569f.css

195 ms

Our browser made a total of 106 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 92% of them (98 requests) were addressed to the original Kariega.co.za, 3% (3 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 1% (1 request) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (13.2 sec) belongs to the original domain Kariega.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 74.9 kB (2%)

Content Size

4.2 MB

After Optimization

4.1 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Kariega.co.za main page is 4.2 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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 4.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 58.0 kB

  • Original 70.9 kB
  • After minification 56.8 kB
  • After compression 12.9 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 14.1 kB, which is 20% 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 58.0 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 17.0 kB

  • Original 4.0 MB
  • After minification 3.9 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. Kariega images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 138.9 kB
  • After minification 138.9 kB
  • After compression 138.9 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 35.3 kB
  • After minification 35.3 kB
  • After compression 35.3 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. Kariega.co.za has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 4 (4%)

Requests Now

100

After Optimization

96

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 100 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Kariega. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 5 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

kariega.co.za

kariega.co.za

547 ms

kariega.co.za

kariega.co.za

436 ms

www.kariega.co.za

www.kariega.co.za

2628 ms

css

css

35 ms

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195 ms

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305 ms

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375 ms

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20 ms

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63 ms

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96 ms

logo.png

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104 ms

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104 ms

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104 ms

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195 ms

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198 ms

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198 ms

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287 ms

phone-icon.gif

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289 ms

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290 ms

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1407 ms

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301 ms

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1264 ms

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1138 ms

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1126 ms

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386 ms

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1889 ms

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1992 ms

Kariega-lion.jpg

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4543 ms

Banner3.jpg

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2569 ms

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2165 ms

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2770 ms

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3347 ms

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3290 ms

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3086 ms

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3649 ms

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2874 ms

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2971 ms

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3074 ms

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3887 ms

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3181 ms

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4402 ms

RIV003.jpg

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4319 ms

KAR011-Kariega-Main-Lodge.jpg

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4802 ms

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5420 ms

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5327 ms

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5172 ms

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14 ms

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26 ms

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27 ms

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5139 ms

Caracal%20in%20bush.jpg

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5412 ms

Jackal.jpg

Jackal.jpg

5788 ms

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7774 ms

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8420 ms

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5934 ms

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6335 ms

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8338 ms

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11927 ms

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8066 ms

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8011 ms

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9743 ms

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11128 ms

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9211 ms

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11123 ms

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8086 ms

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9991 ms

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9388 ms

Lions.jpg

Lions.jpg

10311 ms

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11190 ms

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10248 ms

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11229 ms

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10173 ms

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10814 ms

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11024 ms

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12667 ms

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10847 ms

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12897 ms

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12353 ms

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11474 ms

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13164 ms

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10912 ms

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11665 ms

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11345 ms

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11514 ms

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11657 ms

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11930 ms

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11810 ms

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Pack-for-a-purpose.jpg

11817 ms

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10738 ms

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10865 ms

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9120 ms

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8882 ms

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10469 ms

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9297 ms

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7480 ms

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7077 ms

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6716 ms

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7354 ms

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5684 ms

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6685 ms

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5502 ms

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6278 ms

bottom-logo.png

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4983 ms

heart-icon.gif

heart-icon.gif

5692 ms

Accessibility Review

kariega.co.za accessibility score

79

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

ARIA input fields do not have accessible names

High

Elements with an ARIA [role] that require children to contain a specific [role] are missing some or all of those required children.

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

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Lists do not contain only <li> elements and script supporting elements (<script> and <template>).

Best Practices

kariega.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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

kariega.co.za SEO score

83

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

Links do not have descriptive text

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 Kariega.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 Kariega.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

kariega.co.za

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