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Report Summary

  • 12

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    25% of other websites

  • 91

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 76% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    83% of websites

lionsvalley.co.za

Lions Valley Lodge | Private Game Reserve | Africa's Paradise

Page Load Speed

15.2 sec in total

First Response

2.3 sec

Resources Loaded

12.1 sec

Page Rendered

815 ms

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About Website

Welcome to lionsvalley.co.za homepage info - get ready to check Lions Valley best content right away, or after learning these important things about lionsvalley.co.za

Nestled in the heart of the Nambiti Private Game Reserve just outside Ladysmith, Lions Valley Lodge is one of KwaZulu-Natal’s best-kept secrets.

Visit lionsvalley.co.za

Key Findings

We analyzed Lionsvalley.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 2.3 sec and then it took 12.9 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

lionsvalley.co.za performance score

12

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value12.9 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value13.7 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value35.2 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,890 ms

1/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.144

78/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value34.2 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

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Our browser made a total of 113 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 88% of them (100 requests) were addressed to the original Lionsvalley.co.za, 5% (6 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 3% (3 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (3.4 sec) belongs to the original domain Lionsvalley.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 192.5 kB (6%)

Content Size

3.1 MB

After Optimization

3.0 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Lionsvalley.co.za main page is 3.1 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 2.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 155.3 kB

  • Original 185.7 kB
  • After minification 185.6 kB
  • After compression 30.4 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 155.3 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 31.2 kB

  • Original 2.0 MB
  • After minification 2.0 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. Lions Valley images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 2.1 kB

  • Original 648.3 kB
  • After minification 648.3 kB
  • After compression 646.2 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

-1%

Potential reduce by 3.9 kB

  • Original 264.9 kB
  • After minification 264.0 kB
  • After compression 261.0 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. Lionsvalley.co.za has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 80 (79%)

Requests Now

101

After Optimization

21

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 101 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Lions Valley. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 45 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 37 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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Accessibility Review

lionsvalley.co.za accessibility score

91

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

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

lionsvalley.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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

lionsvalley.co.za SEO score

93

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

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 Lionsvalley.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 Lionsvalley.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

lionsvalley.co.za

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