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Report Summary

  • 92

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    92% of other websites

  • 80

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 49% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 77

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    36% of websites

southcoaststriders.co.za

Road Running and Walking - South Coast Striders Athletics Club

Page Load Speed

3.6 sec in total

First Response

950 ms

Resources Loaded

2.6 sec

Page Rendered

111 ms

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About Website

Welcome to southcoaststriders.co.za homepage info - get ready to check South Coast Striders best content right away, or after learning these important things about southcoaststriders.co.za

South Coast Striders Athletics Club is a member of KwaZulu-Natal Athletics affiliated to ASA - Athletics South Africa

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Key Findings

We analyzed Southcoaststriders.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 950 ms and then it took 2.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

southcoaststriders.co.za performance score

92

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.4 s

71/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.5 s

89/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.6 s

86/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value50 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value3.5 s

92/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

southcoaststriders.co.za

950 ms

menu.js

324 ms

jquery-1.8.3.js

6 ms

Logo%20Banner.jpg

324 ms

SC%20Striders%20Logo.webp

634 ms

Our browser made a total of 12 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 75% of them (9 requests) were addressed to the original Southcoaststriders.co.za, 17% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 8% (1 request) were made to Code.jquery.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (950 ms) belongs to the original domain Southcoaststriders.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 11.0 kB (18%)

Content Size

60.1 kB

After Optimization

49.1 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript

In fact, the total size of Southcoaststriders.co.za main page is 60.1 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. 20% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 28.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-70%

Potential reduce by 9.4 kB

  • Original 13.5 kB
  • After minification 13.2 kB
  • After compression 4.1 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 9.4 kB or 70% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 1.4 kB

  • Original 28.9 kB
  • After minification 27.6 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 Coast Striders images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 223 B

  • Original 17.7 kB
  • After minification 17.6 kB
  • After compression 17.4 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

7

After Optimization

7

  • Images
  • JavaScript

The browser has sent 7 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of South Coast Striders. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Network Requests Diagram

southcoaststriders.co.za

southcoaststriders.co.za

950 ms

menu.js

menu.js

324 ms

jquery-1.8.3.js

jquery-1.8.3.js

6 ms

Logo%20Banner.jpg

Logo%20Banner.jpg

324 ms

SC%20Striders%20Logo.webp

SC%20Striders%20Logo.webp

634 ms

HCM%20Event%20logo.JPG

HCM%20Event%20logo.JPG

646 ms

spacer.gif

spacer.gif

666 ms

ga.js

ga.js

8 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

12 ms

logo%20banner.jpg

logo%20banner.jpg

653 ms

sc%20striders%20logo.webp

sc%20striders%20logo.webp

633 ms

hcm%20event%20logo.jpg

hcm%20event%20logo.jpg

325 ms

Accessibility Review

southcoaststriders.co.za accessibility score

80

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.

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

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

southcoaststriders.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

SEO Factors

southcoaststriders.co.za SEO score

77

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Southcoaststriders.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 Southcoaststriders.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

southcoaststriders.co.za

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of South Coast Striders. 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: