Report Summary

  • 28

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    47% of other websites

  • 65

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 30% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 82

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    44% of websites

sothebysknysna.co.za

Knysna property sales home rentals Sothebys International Realty

Page Load Speed

14 sec in total

First Response

934 ms

Resources Loaded

11.1 sec

Page Rendered

2 sec

sothebysknysna.co.za screenshot

About Website

Welcome to sothebysknysna.co.za homepage info - get ready to check Sothebys Knysna best content right away, or after learning these important things about sothebysknysna.co.za

We specialize in property sales, holiday accommodation, and long-term rentals in Knysna and the surrounding areas. It is a well-established business with an excellent track record in the property mark...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Sothebysknysna.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 934 ms and then it took 13.1 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

sothebysknysna.co.za performance score

28

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.9 s

4/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value13.2 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value10.4 s

8/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value770 ms

38/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.001

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value16.3 s

5/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

sothebysknysna.co.za

934 ms

www.sirknysna.co.za

2452 ms

magnific-popup.css

848 ms

global.css

853 ms

jquery-1.12.0.min.js

1475 ms

Our browser made a total of 96 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Sothebysknysna.co.za, 80% (77 requests) were made to Sirknysna.co.za and 9% (9 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (4.2 sec) relates to the external source Sirknysna.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.5 MB (41%)

Content Size

3.5 MB

After Optimization

2.1 MB

In fact, the total size of Sothebysknysna.co.za main page is 3.5 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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.7 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 63.3 kB

  • Original 73.0 kB
  • After minification 63.3 kB
  • After compression 9.7 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 9.7 kB, which is 13% 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 63.3 kB or 87% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 2.5 kB

  • Original 1.7 MB
  • After minification 1.7 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. Sothebys Knysna images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-73%

Potential reduce by 749.5 kB

  • Original 1.0 MB
  • After minification 952.8 kB
  • After compression 273.7 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 749.5 kB or 73% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 643.9 kB

  • Original 760.7 kB
  • After minification 661.3 kB
  • After compression 116.9 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. Sothebysknysna.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 643.9 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 57 (70%)

Requests Now

81

After Optimization

24

The browser has sent 81 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Sothebys Knysna. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 31 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 28 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

sothebysknysna.co.za accessibility score

65

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

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible 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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

[id] attributes on active, focusable elements are not unique

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

sothebysknysna.co.za best practices score

67

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

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

sothebysknysna.co.za SEO score

82

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

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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 Sothebysknysna.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 Sothebysknysna.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

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Sothebys Knysna. 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: