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Report Summary

  • 48

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    66% 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

saajida.co.za

Lifestyle Blog in Cape Town by Saajida Akabor | Saajida Says

Page Load Speed

9.2 sec in total

First Response

1 sec

Resources Loaded

7.9 sec

Page Rendered

223 ms

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About Website

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

Saajida Says is a lifestyle blog by Saajida Akabor. It covers local travel, halal food in Cape Town, photography, creative writing, parenting & more.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Saajida.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 1 sec and then it took 8.1 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

saajida.co.za performance score

48

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value8.1 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.6 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value15.9 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value60 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.005

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value10.2 s

25/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

saajida.co.za

1036 ms

saajida.co.za

4009 ms

mediaelementplayer-legacy.min.css

51 ms

wp-mediaelement.min.css

52 ms

frontend-builder-plugin-style.css

2066 ms

Our browser made a total of 39 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 44% of them (17 requests) were addressed to the original Saajida.co.za, 26% (10 requests) were made to C0.wp.com and 15% (6 requests) were made to I0.wp.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (4 sec) belongs to the original domain Saajida.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 766.4 kB (64%)

Content Size

1.2 MB

After Optimization

436.1 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Saajida.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. 45% of websites need less resources to load. CSS take 623.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 34.3 kB

  • Original 46.0 kB
  • After minification 42.4 kB
  • After compression 11.7 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. 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 34.3 kB or 75% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 7.7 kB

  • Original 217.4 kB
  • After minification 209.7 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. Saajida images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-64%

Potential reduce by 200.7 kB

  • Original 315.1 kB
  • After minification 287.4 kB
  • After compression 114.4 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 200.7 kB or 64% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 523.8 kB

  • Original 623.9 kB
  • After minification 584.4 kB
  • After compression 100.2 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. Saajida.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 523.8 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 23 (72%)

Requests Now

32

After Optimization

9

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 32 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Saajida. 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 9 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

saajida.co.za

saajida.co.za

1036 ms

saajida.co.za

saajida.co.za

4009 ms

mediaelementplayer-legacy.min.css

mediaelementplayer-legacy.min.css

51 ms

wp-mediaelement.min.css

wp-mediaelement.min.css

52 ms

frontend-builder-plugin-style.css

frontend-builder-plugin-style.css

2066 ms

magnific_popup.css

magnific_popup.css

698 ms

virtue.css

virtue.css

1836 ms

default.css

default.css

716 ms

css

css

72 ms

social-logos.min.css

social-logos.min.css

52 ms

jetpack.css

jetpack.css

53 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

52 ms

jquery-migrate.min.js

jquery-migrate.min.js

52 ms

frontend-builder-global-functions.js

frontend-builder-global-functions.js

489 ms

jquery.fitvids.js

jquery.fitvids.js

694 ms

waypoints.min.js

waypoints.min.js

707 ms

jquery.magnific-popup.js

jquery.magnific-popup.js

959 ms

frontend-builder-scripts.js

frontend-builder-scripts.js

1648 ms

bootstrap-min.js

bootstrap-min.js

1158 ms

hoverIntent.min.js

hoverIntent.min.js

3 ms

imagesloaded.min.js

imagesloaded.min.js

2 ms

masonry.min.js

masonry.min.js

3 ms

plugins-min.js

plugins-min.js

1622 ms

main-min.js

main-min.js

1201 ms

e-202444.js

e-202444.js

15 ms

salvattore.min.js

salvattore.min.js

1422 ms

jetpack-carousel.min.js

jetpack-carousel.min.js

3 ms

Vlei_Chalet_Cabin_at_Sondagskloof.jpeg

Vlei_Chalet_Cabin_at_Sondagskloof.jpeg

90 ms

Can-You-See-Me-Libby-Scott.jpeg

Can-You-See-Me-Libby-Scott.jpeg

148 ms

ferrari-fmm.jpg

ferrari-fmm.jpg

277 ms

picsea-357040-unsplash.jpg

picsea-357040-unsplash.jpg

493 ms

night-sky-img1.jpg

night-sky-img1.jpg

92 ms

Snapseed.jpg

Snapseed.jpg

154 ms

Saajida-Says.jpg

Saajida-Says.jpg

500 ms

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65 ms

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71 ms

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S6uyw4BMUTPHjx4wWw.ttf

84 ms

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84 ms

kt-font-awesome.ttf

kt-font-awesome.ttf

952 ms

Accessibility Review

saajida.co.za accessibility score

98

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.

Best Practices

saajida.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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

saajida.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 Saajida.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 Saajida.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

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