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Report Summary

  • 55

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    72% of other websites

  • 98

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 94% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    94% of websites

redsands.co.za

Welcome - Red Sands Country Lodge | Kuruman

Page Load Speed

9.8 sec in total

First Response

918 ms

Resources Loaded

7.6 sec

Page Rendered

1.3 sec

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About Website

Visit redsands.co.za now to see the best up-to-date Red Sands content and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about redsands.co.za

Discover a family-run retreat that is nestled amongst the natural beauty of the scenic Kuruman hills, on the edge of the ancient Ghaap plateau, in the Northern

Visit redsands.co.za

Key Findings

We analyzed Redsands.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 918 ms and then it took 8.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 85% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

redsands.co.za performance score

55

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.7 s

12/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.1 s

2/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value13.0 s

2/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value4.7 s

80/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

redsands.co.za

918 ms

www.redsands.co.za

1755 ms

joomla-alert.min.css

300 ms

frontend.css

600 ms

theme.12.css

1513 ms

Our browser made a total of 53 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 75% of them (40 requests) were addressed to the original Redsands.co.za, 11% (6 requests) were made to Youtube.com and 4% (2 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.8 sec) belongs to the original domain Redsands.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 262.4 kB (11%)

Content Size

2.4 MB

After Optimization

2.1 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Redsands.co.za main page is 2.4 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. 80% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Images take 1.8 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 55.7 kB

  • Original 65.9 kB
  • After minification 51.3 kB
  • After compression 10.2 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 14.6 kB, which is 22% 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 55.7 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-11%

Potential reduce by 203.5 kB

  • Original 1.8 MB
  • After minification 1.6 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. Obviously, Red Sands needs image optimization as it can save up to 203.5 kB or 11% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 2.6 kB

  • Original 358.7 kB
  • After minification 358.6 kB
  • After compression 356.0 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 526 B

  • Original 152.1 kB
  • After minification 152.1 kB
  • After compression 151.6 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. Redsands.co.za has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 18 (37%)

Requests Now

49

After Optimization

31

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 49 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Red Sands. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 16 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

redsands.co.za

redsands.co.za

918 ms

www.redsands.co.za

www.redsands.co.za

1755 ms

joomla-alert.min.css

joomla-alert.min.css

300 ms

frontend.css

frontend.css

600 ms

theme.12.css

theme.12.css

1513 ms

core.min.js

core.min.js

905 ms

webcomponents-bundle.min.js

webcomponents-bundle.min.js

1204 ms

joomla-hidden-mail.min.js

joomla-hidden-mail.min.js

946 ms

messages.min.js

messages.min.js

947 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

1262 ms

jquery-noconflict.min.js

jquery-noconflict.min.js

1201 ms

frontend.js

frontend.js

1561 ms

analytics.min.js

analytics.min.js

1258 ms

uikit.min.js

uikit.min.js

2103 ms

uikit-icons-pinewood-lake.min.js

uikit-icons-pinewood-lake.min.js

1506 ms

theme.js

theme.js

1561 ms

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XOTBdWE19Wc

151 ms

redsands-logo-vector.svg

redsands-logo-vector.svg

477 ms

background-texture.png

background-texture.png

962 ms

images_DSC00081-6de88572.webp

images_DSC00081-6de88572.webp

750 ms

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972 ms

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images_EPIC8665-HDR-0c816725.webp

1872 ms

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1316 ms

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1060 ms

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1348 ms

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box-decoration-image.svg

1261 ms

images_DJI__0027-816b858c.webp

images_DJI__0027-816b858c.webp

2468 ms

redsands-bg-birdseye-0f6a18e4.jpeg

redsands-bg-birdseye-0f6a18e4.jpeg

2260 ms

images_DJI__0134-1f38781f.webp

images_DJI__0134-1f38781f.webp

2153 ms

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2225 ms

oryxicon.svg

oryxicon.svg

1648 ms

rustic-cottages-7184bacd.jpeg

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1948 ms

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2172 ms

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2246 ms

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2459 ms

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2773 ms

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2530 ms

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2545 ms

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buffet-b33c7894.jpeg

2560 ms

conferencing-595b9faa.jpeg

conferencing-595b9faa.jpeg

2759 ms

redsands-emblem.svg

redsands-emblem.svg

2784 ms

www-player.css

www-player.css

8 ms

www-embed-player.js

www-embed-player.js

28 ms

base.js

base.js

56 ms

ad_status.js

ad_status.js

186 ms

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126 ms

embed.js

embed.js

45 ms

KFOmCnqEu92Fr1Mu4mxP.ttf

KFOmCnqEu92Fr1Mu4mxP.ttf

138 ms

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KFOlCnqEu92Fr1MmEU9fBBc9.ttf

137 ms

id

id

36 ms

Create

Create

109 ms

GenerateIT

GenerateIT

14 ms

log_event

log_event

18 ms

Accessibility Review

redsands.co.za accessibility score

98

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

redsands.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

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

redsands.co.za SEO score

100

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

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 Redsands.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 Redsands.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

redsands.co.za

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