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Report Summary

  • 46

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    65% of other websites

  • 96

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 88% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 82

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    44% of websites

lincolncottages.co.za

Lincoln Cottages - Luxury self-catering accommodation in Pietermaritzburg

Page Load Speed

1.4 sec in total

First Response

100 ms

Resources Loaded

1.1 sec

Page Rendered

280 ms

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About Website

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Lincoln Cottages offers affordable luxury cottage accommodation in Pietermaritzburg. Our self-catering or bed and breakfast accommodation is well suited for your holiday or long-term stay in Pietermar...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Lincolncottages.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 100 ms and then it took 1.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 30% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

lincolncottages.co.za performance score

46

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.7 s

58/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.4 s

39/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.8 s

84/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,120 ms

23/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.133

81/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value10.0 s

26/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

lincolncottages.co.za

100 ms

www.lincolncottages.co.za

196 ms

enterprise.js

78 ms

js

79 ms

a383ef6eb8a7.css

96 ms

Our browser made a total of 43 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 7% of them (3 requests) were addressed to the original Lincolncottages.co.za, 63% (27 requests) were made to B-cdn.springnest.com and 9% (4 requests) were made to Use.fontawesome.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (633 ms) relates to the external source B-cdn.springnest.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 97.1 kB (7%)

Content Size

1.3 MB

After Optimization

1.2 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Lincolncottages.co.za main page is 1.3 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 1.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 73.6 kB

  • Original 92.4 kB
  • After minification 72.7 kB
  • After compression 18.7 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 19.7 kB, which is 21% 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 73.6 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 13.0 kB

  • Original 1.1 MB
  • After minification 1.1 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. Lincoln Cottages images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 47 B

  • Original 55.7 kB
  • After minification 55.7 kB
  • After compression 55.6 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

-15%

Potential reduce by 10.5 kB

  • Original 69.0 kB
  • After minification 69.0 kB
  • After compression 58.5 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. Lincolncottages.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 10.5 kB or 15% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 12 (34%)

Requests Now

35

After Optimization

23

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 35 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Lincoln Cottages. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 10 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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lincolncottages.co.za

100 ms

www.lincolncottages.co.za

www.lincolncottages.co.za

196 ms

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enterprise.js

78 ms

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79 ms

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96 ms

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117 ms

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171 ms

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118 ms

jquery.min.js

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34 ms

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56 ms

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116 ms

all.css

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47 ms

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633 ms

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122 ms

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22 ms

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piwik.js

115 ms

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83 ms

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43 ms

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40 ms

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24 ms

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24 ms

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199 ms

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64 ms

Accessibility Review

lincolncottages.co.za accessibility score

96

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

lincolncottages.co.za best practices score

83

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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

lincolncottages.co.za SEO score

82

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

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

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Lincolncottages.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 Lincolncottages.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

lincolncottages.co.za

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