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Report Summary

  • 41

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    60% of other websites

  • 70

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 35% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 75

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    32% of websites

knysna.co.za

Garden Route Accommodation Real Estate and Business Guide for all towns in Garden Route and Klein Karoo South Africa

Page Load Speed

10.3 sec in total

First Response

932 ms

Resources Loaded

8.3 sec

Page Rendered

1 sec

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About Website

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A Tourism Guide to Garden Route South Africa, Accommodation Real Estate and Business for all towns in Garden Route and Klein Karoo

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Key Findings

We analyzed Knysna.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 932 ms and then it took 9.4 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

knysna.co.za performance score

41

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value8.4 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.4 s

2/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value13.8 s

1/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value250 ms

84/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.08

94/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value12.9 s

13/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

knysna.co.za

932 ms

www.gardenroute.com

2487 ms

style.css

596 ms

style-settings.css

863 ms

bootstrap.js

872 ms

Our browser made a total of 84 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Knysna.co.za, 69% (58 requests) were made to Gardenroute.com and 18% (15 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.6 sec) relates to the external source Gardenroute.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 126.1 kB (11%)

Content Size

1.2 MB

After Optimization

1.1 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Knysna.co.za main page is 1.2 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. 55% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 780.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 89.0 kB

  • Original 103.1 kB
  • After minification 79.8 kB
  • After compression 14.2 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 23.3 kB, which is 23% 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 89.0 kB or 86% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 9.7 kB

  • Original 780.7 kB
  • After minification 771.0 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. Knysna images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-9%

Potential reduce by 22.4 kB

  • Original 250.8 kB
  • After minification 250.8 kB
  • After compression 228.4 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

-11%

Potential reduce by 4.9 kB

  • Original 43.5 kB
  • After minification 43.4 kB
  • After compression 38.6 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. Knysna.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 4.9 kB or 11% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 37 (57%)

Requests Now

65

After Optimization

28

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 65 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Knysna. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 25 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 14 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

knysna.co.za

knysna.co.za

932 ms

www.gardenroute.com

www.gardenroute.com

2487 ms

style.css

style.css

596 ms

style-settings.css

style-settings.css

863 ms

bootstrap.js

bootstrap.js

872 ms

SmoothScroll.js

SmoothScroll.js

875 ms

jquery.isotope.js

jquery.isotope.js

901 ms

owl.carousel.js

owl.carousel.js

905 ms

main.js

main.js

939 ms

menujs.js

menujs.js

1157 ms

script.js

script.js

1160 ms

lang.js

lang.js

1164 ms

jquery.1.11.1.js

jquery.1.11.1.js

1541 ms

bootstrap.css

bootstrap.css

1643 ms

font-awesome.css

font-awesome.css

1245 ms

flexslider.css

flexslider.css

1470 ms

shadowbox.css

shadowbox.css

1501 ms

owl.carousel.css

owl.carousel.css

1499 ms

owl.theme.css

owl.theme.css

1726 ms

style.css

style.css

1727 ms

responsive.css

responsive.css

1749 ms

css

css

99 ms

css

css

133 ms

modernizr.custom.js

modernizr.custom.js

1751 ms

api.js

api.js

82 ms

global.css

global.css

1833 ms

general.js

general.js

1835 ms

jquery-1.11.2.min.js

jquery-1.11.2.min.js

2179 ms

jquery.compat.js

jquery.compat.js

2085 ms

thickbox.js

thickbox.js

2093 ms

jquery.flexslider-min.js

jquery.flexslider-min.js

2095 ms

iscroll.js

iscroll.js

2098 ms

insert_active_flash.js

insert_active_flash.js

2095 ms

jquery-ui-1.9.2.custom.css

jquery-ui-1.9.2.custom.css

2254 ms

jquery-ui.min.js

jquery-ui.min.js

2571 ms

shadowbox.js

shadowbox.js

2617 ms

jq-innerfade.js

jq-innerfade.js

2359 ms

jquery.flexslider.js

jquery.flexslider.js

2129 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

114 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

33 ms

collect

collect

268 ms

collect

collect

260 ms

collect

collect

350 ms

recaptcha__en.js

recaptcha__en.js

82 ms

collect

collect

239 ms

heads_open.gif

heads_open.gif

656 ms

heads_close.gif

heads_close.gif

703 ms

grd_logo.png

grd_logo.png

576 ms

jojos.jpg

jojos.jpg

715 ms

grd_ban_bwbay.jpg

grd_ban_bwbay.jpg

752 ms

plett-accom2.jpg

plett-accom2.jpg

942 ms

grd_ban_handmade_connections.jpg

grd_ban_handmade_connections.jpg

751 ms

cherrywood.jpg

cherrywood.jpg

912 ms

knysna-lodges.jpg

knysna-lodges.jpg

1471 ms

corona-virus-warning.png

corona-virus-warning.png

922 ms

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964 ms

home_icon_accom.png

home_icon_accom.png

1001 ms

home_icon_travel.png

home_icon_travel.png

1198 ms

home_icon_business.png

home_icon_business.png

1204 ms

04.jpg

04.jpg

2461 ms

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02.jpg

1258 ms

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03.jpg

1312 ms

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05.jpg

1496 ms

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1504 ms

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1548 ms

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1652 ms

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1204 ms

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1501 ms

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1204 ms

Accessibility Review

knysna.co.za accessibility score

70

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

[id] attributes on active, focusable elements are not unique

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

knysna.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

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

knysna.co.za SEO score

75

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

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

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

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 Knysna.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 Knysna.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

knysna.co.za

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