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Report Summary

  • 38

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    57% of other websites

  • 65

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 30% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 84

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    52% of websites

sunsetcottages.co.za

Sunset Cottages | Mooi River, KwaZulu-Natal | South Africa

Page Load Speed

13.4 sec in total

First Response

1.7 sec

Resources Loaded

11.1 sec

Page Rendered

498 ms

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About Website

Visit sunsetcottages.co.za now to see the best up-to-date Sunset Cottages content for South Africa and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about sunsetcottages.co.za

Sunset Cottages offer luxury accommodation on a working farm just 1km from Summerhill Stud and Hartford House near Mooi River in the KwaZulu-Natal Midlands.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Sunsetcottages.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 1.7 sec and then it took 11.6 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

sunsetcottages.co.za performance score

38

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value20.3 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value31.6 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value46.4 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value300 ms

78/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.03

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value29.1 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.sunsetcottages.co.za

1716 ms

cloudflare.min.js

28 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

775 ms

layerslider.css

546 ms

css

25 ms

Our browser made a total of 90 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 82% of them (74 requests) were addressed to the original Sunsetcottages.co.za, 7% (6 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 6% (5 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (4.5 sec) belongs to the original domain Sunsetcottages.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 997.2 kB (36%)

Content Size

2.8 MB

After Optimization

1.8 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Sunsetcottages.co.za main page is 2.8 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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 41.3 kB

  • Original 53.9 kB
  • After minification 53.8 kB
  • After compression 12.6 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 41.3 kB or 77% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 2.8 kB

  • Original 1.4 MB
  • After minification 1.4 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. Sunset Cottages images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-67%

Potential reduce by 610.0 kB

  • Original 909.6 kB
  • After minification 909.1 kB
  • After compression 299.5 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 610.0 kB or 67% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 343.0 kB

  • Original 409.3 kB
  • After minification 401.8 kB
  • After compression 66.3 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. Sunsetcottages.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 343.0 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 58 (72%)

Requests Now

81

After Optimization

23

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 81 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Sunset Cottages. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 28 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 25 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

www.sunsetcottages.co.za

www.sunsetcottages.co.za

1716 ms

cloudflare.min.js

cloudflare.min.js

28 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

wp-emoji-release.min.js

775 ms

layerslider.css

layerslider.css

546 ms

css

css

25 ms

styles.css

styles.css

527 ms

tp_twitter_plugin.css

tp_twitter_plugin.css

549 ms

settings.css

settings.css

538 ms

style.css

style.css

1044 ms

base.css

base.css

1045 ms

buttons.css

buttons.css

1084 ms

mfn-icons.css

mfn-icons.css

1059 ms

grid.css

grid.css

1076 ms

layout.css

layout.css

2144 ms

shortcodes.css

shortcodes.css

1580 ms

variables.css

variables.css

1591 ms

style-simple.css

style-simple.css

1591 ms

animations.min.css

animations.min.css

2154 ms

colorpicker.css

colorpicker.css

1604 ms

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2097 ms

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jplayer.blue.monday.css

2109 ms

prettyPhoto.css

prettyPhoto.css

2104 ms

responsive-1240.css

responsive-1240.css

2136 ms

responsive.css

responsive.css

2611 ms

style-colors.php

style-colors.php

3422 ms

style.php

style.php

3282 ms

css

css

32 ms

css

css

40 ms

jquery.js

jquery.js

2668 ms

jquery-migrate.min.js

jquery-migrate.min.js

2665 ms

layerslider.kreaturamedia.jquery.js

layerslider.kreaturamedia.jquery.js

3683 ms

greensock.js

greensock.js

3192 ms

layerslider.transitions.js

layerslider.transitions.js

3193 ms

jquery.themepunch.tools.min.js

jquery.themepunch.tools.min.js

3993 ms

jquery.themepunch.revolution.min.js

jquery.themepunch.revolution.min.js

3731 ms

bag2

bag2

3143 ms

jquery.form.min.js

jquery.form.min.js

3221 ms

scripts.js

scripts.js

3309 ms

core.min.js

core.min.js

3453 ms

widget.min.js

widget.min.js

3696 ms

mouse.min.js

mouse.min.js

3723 ms

sortable.min.js

sortable.min.js

3739 ms

tabs.min.js

tabs.min.js

3809 ms

accordion.min.js

accordion.min.js

3968 ms

animations.min.js

animations.min.js

3766 ms

jquery.jplayer.min.js

jquery.jplayer.min.js

4216 ms

colorpicker.js

colorpicker.js

3722 ms

jquery.plugins.js

jquery.plugins.js

3751 ms

mfn.menu.js

mfn.menu.js

3792 ms

scripts.js

scripts.js

4536 ms

comment-reply.min.js

comment-reply.min.js

3486 ms

wp-embed.min.js

wp-embed.min.js

3702 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

14 ms

linkid.js

linkid.js

4 ms

collect

collect

36 ms

collect

collect

56 ms

ga.js

ga.js

14 ms

box_shadow.png

box_shadow.png

1337 ms

sunset-cottages-accommodation.jpg

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1382 ms

logo-banner-white-400px1.png

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1589 ms

sunset-cottages-mooi-river.jpg

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2590 ms

sunset-cottages-lake.jpg

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1819 ms

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1918 ms

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2330 ms

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3201 ms

sunset-logo.png

sunset-logo.png

2631 ms

bookings-icon.png

bookings-icon.png

2860 ms

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3118 ms

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50 ms

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15 ms

top_bar_right_shadow.png

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3157 ms

box_shadow_button.png

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3329 ms

list_star.png

list_star.png

3590 ms

textline.png

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3652 ms

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3684 ms

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4496 ms

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9 ms

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2538 ms

Accessibility Review

sunsetcottages.co.za accessibility score

65

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

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

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Lists do not contain only <li> elements and script supporting elements (<script> and <template>).

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

sunsetcottages.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

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

sunsetcottages.co.za SEO score

84

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

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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 Sunsetcottages.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 Sunsetcottages.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

sunsetcottages.co.za

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