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Report Summary

  • 16

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    30% of other websites

  • 69

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 34% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 85

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    55% of websites

sudwalacaves.com

Sudwala Caves - The most popular tourist destination in the Lowveld

Page Load Speed

12 sec in total

First Response

782 ms

Resources Loaded

9.7 sec

Page Rendered

1.6 sec

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About Website

Click here to check amazing Sudwala Caves content for South Africa. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about sudwalacaves.com

The Sudwala Caves are open 365 days a year :8:30am - 4:30pm. The Lowvelds most popular tourist destination and pride of Mpumalanga

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Key Findings

We analyzed Sudwalacaves.com page load time and found that the first response time was 782 ms and then it took 11.3 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

sudwalacaves.com performance score

16

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.8 s

4/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value10.9 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value17.2 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value780 ms

38/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.374

28/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value21.3 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

sudwalacaves.com

782 ms

sudwalacaves.com

1623 ms

js

54 ms

bootstrap.min.css

252 ms

style.css

503 ms

Our browser made a total of 133 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 87% of them (116 requests) were addressed to the original Sudwalacaves.com, 5% (7 requests) were made to Tripadvisor.com and 4% (5 requests) were made to Static.tacdn.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (3.1 sec) belongs to the original domain Sudwalacaves.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 2.1 MB (15%)

Content Size

13.7 MB

After Optimization

11.6 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Sudwalacaves.com main page is 13.7 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 12.9 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 83.3 kB

  • Original 101.2 kB
  • After minification 85.9 kB
  • After compression 17.9 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 15.3 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 83.3 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-15%

Potential reduce by 1.9 MB

  • Original 12.9 MB
  • After minification 11.0 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, Sudwala Caves needs image optimization as it can save up to 1.9 MB or 15% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 11.4 kB

  • Original 467.4 kB
  • After minification 467.3 kB
  • After compression 456.0 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

-17%

Potential reduce by 33.6 kB

  • Original 203.1 kB
  • After minification 174.8 kB
  • After compression 169.5 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. Sudwalacaves.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 33.6 kB or 17% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 82 (68%)

Requests Now

120

After Optimization

38

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 120 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Sudwala Caves. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 41 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 37 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

sudwalacaves.com

sudwalacaves.com

782 ms

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1623 ms

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Accessibility Review

sudwalacaves.com accessibility score

69

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

button, link, and menuitem elements do not have accessible names.

High

ARIA input fields do not have accessible names

High

Elements with an ARIA [role] that require children to contain a specific [role] are missing some or all of those required children.

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

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Best Practices

sudwalacaves.com best practices score

75

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

SEO Factors

sudwalacaves.com SEO score

85

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

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 Sudwalacaves.com 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 Sudwalacaves.com 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

sudwalacaves.com

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