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Report Summary

  • 69

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    80% of other websites

  • 88

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 68% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    83% of websites

southafricancupid.co.za

South African Dating & Singles at SouthAfricanCupid.com™

Page Load Speed

3.4 sec in total

First Response

13 ms

Resources Loaded

3 sec

Page Rendered

398 ms

southafricancupid.co.za screenshot

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Southafricancupid.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 13 ms and then it took 3.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 60% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

southafricancupid.co.za performance score

69

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.3 s

41/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.6 s

8/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.5 s

88/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value4.2 s

86/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

southafricancupid.co.za

13 ms

www.southafricancupid.com

323 ms

southafricancupid-landing.css

120 ms

css

81 ms

1.js

68 ms

Our browser made a total of 58 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 2% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Southafricancupid.co.za, 24% (14 requests) were made to Southafricancupid.com and 10% (6 requests) were made to Cdn.southafricancupid.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.3 sec) relates to the external source Southafricancupid.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 154.0 kB (17%)

Content Size

910.7 kB

After Optimization

756.7 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Southafricancupid.co.za main page is 910.7 kB. 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. Images take 477.8 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 88.1 kB

  • Original 112.0 kB
  • After minification 94.7 kB
  • After compression 23.9 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 17.3 kB, which is 15% 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 88.1 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 5.6 kB

  • Original 477.8 kB
  • After minification 472.2 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. South African Cupid images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 3.7 kB

  • Original 249.6 kB
  • After minification 249.6 kB
  • After compression 246.0 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

-79%

Potential reduce by 56.6 kB

  • Original 71.3 kB
  • After minification 71.1 kB
  • After compression 14.6 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. Southafricancupid.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 56.6 kB or 79% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 23 (52%)

Requests Now

44

After Optimization

21

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 44 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of South African Cupid. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 21 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

southafricancupid.co.za

southafricancupid.co.za

13 ms

www.southafricancupid.com

www.southafricancupid.com

323 ms

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southafricancupid-landing.css

120 ms

css

css

81 ms

1.js

1.js

68 ms

polyfill.js

polyfill.js

76 ms

polyfill.min.js

polyfill.min.js

682 ms

landing.js

landing.js

77 ms

sdk.js

sdk.js

93 ms

NBSA

NBSA

71 ms

notosanssc.css

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17 ms

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22 ms

j.php

j.php

32 ms

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46 ms

icons.svg

icons.svg

16 ms

homepage.jpg

homepage.jpg

144 ms

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141 ms

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94 ms

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142 ms

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140 ms

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32.jpg

141 ms

google-play-badge.png

google-play-badge.png

23 ms

fb.png

fb.png

38 ms

twt.png

twt.png

29 ms

instagram.png

instagram.png

22 ms

ytube.png

ytube.png

22 ms

client.json

client.json

267 ms

client.json

client.json

294 ms

config.json

config.json

81 ms

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20 ms

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37 ms

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50 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

132 ms

NBSA

NBSA

1309 ms

visit

visit

329 ms

103893.js

103893.js

584 ms

js

js

59 ms

visit

visit

65 ms

NBSA

NBSA

284 ms

cmp.php

cmp.php

414 ms

cmp_final.min.js

cmp_final.min.js

377 ms

collect

collect

285 ms

landing

landing

34 ms

landing

landing

29 ms

https:/

https:/

2 ms

NBSA

NBSA

319 ms

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112 ms

421 ms

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41 ms

tfa.js

tfa.js

22 ms

json

json

39 ms

cs

cs

8 ms

cds-pips.js

cds-pips.js

2 ms

eid.es5.js

eid.es5.js

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json

json

21 ms

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16 ms

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Accessibility Review

southafricancupid.co.za accessibility score

88

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

southafricancupid.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

southafricancupid.co.za SEO score

93

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Content Best Practices

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

Impact

Issue

High

Links do not have descriptive text

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 Southafricancupid.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 Southafricancupid.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

southafricancupid.co.za

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of South African Cupid. 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: