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Report Summary

  • 40

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    59% of other websites

  • 89

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 71% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 96

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    90% of websites

redcastle.co.za

Property Development | Property Sales, Cape Town | Red Castle Developments

Page Load Speed

14.8 sec in total

First Response

1 sec

Resources Loaded

13.5 sec

Page Rendered

349 ms

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About Website

Click here to check amazing Red Castle content. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about redcastle.co.za

Red Castle is a property development company with a difference. Our aim is to service communities by providing our clients with immaculate and beautiful homes of lasting quality for affordable prices....

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Key Findings

We analyzed Redcastle.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 1 sec and then it took 13.8 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

redcastle.co.za performance score

40

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value9.0 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value17.7 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value25.5 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value220 ms

87/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.113

86/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value16.2 s

5/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

redcastle.co.za

1027 ms

redcastle.co.za

7972 ms

js

42 ms

wpex-contact-form-7.css

505 ms

js_composer.min.css

3069 ms

Our browser made a total of 70 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 71% of them (50 requests) were addressed to the original Redcastle.co.za, 23% (16 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 3% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (8 sec) belongs to the original domain Redcastle.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 946.4 kB (71%)

Content Size

1.3 MB

After Optimization

385.0 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Redcastle.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. 45% of websites need less resources to load. CSS take 894.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 93.6 kB

  • Original 112.0 kB
  • After minification 110.9 kB
  • After compression 18.4 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 93.6 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 204.9 kB
  • After minification 204.9 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. Red Castle images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-58%

Potential reduce by 69.8 kB

  • Original 120.1 kB
  • After minification 120.0 kB
  • After compression 50.3 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 69.8 kB or 58% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-88%

Potential reduce by 783.0 kB

  • Original 894.5 kB
  • After minification 884.8 kB
  • After compression 111.4 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. Redcastle.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 783.0 kB or 88% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 34 (67%)

Requests Now

51

After Optimization

17

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 51 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Red Castle. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 22 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 14 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

redcastle.co.za

redcastle.co.za

1027 ms

redcastle.co.za

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7972 ms

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42 ms

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269 ms

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Accessibility Review

redcastle.co.za accessibility score

89

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

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.

Best Practices

redcastle.co.za best practices score

83

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

SEO Factors

redcastle.co.za SEO score

96

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Redcastle.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 Redcastle.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

redcastle.co.za

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