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Report Summary

  • 14

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    26% of other websites

  • 90

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 74% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    94% of websites

surfalliance.co.za

Surf Alliance - Real News from Zululand, East Coast KZN and South Africa

Page Load Speed

6.4 sec in total

First Response

783 ms

Resources Loaded

5.4 sec

Page Rendered

207 ms

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About Website

Visit surfalliance.co.za now to see the best up-to-date Surf Alliance content and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about surfalliance.co.za

Surfing, Bodyboarding, Skateboarding, Longboarding and other alternative sports news from South Africa, with focus on Northern KwaZulu-Natal, Richards Bay, Zululand

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Key Findings

We analyzed Surfalliance.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 783 ms and then it took 5.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 75% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

surfalliance.co.za performance score

14

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.1 s

9/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value19.4 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value11.3 s

5/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,800 ms

10/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.212

59/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value18.4 s

3/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

surfalliance.co.za

783 ms

surfalliance.co.za

1416 ms

style-1.css

267 ms

gridbox.css

539 ms

responsive.css

996 ms

Our browser made a total of 55 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 55% of them (30 requests) were addressed to the original Surfalliance.co.za, 22% (12 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 9% (5 requests) were made to Youtube.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.6 sec) belongs to the original domain Surfalliance.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 74.4 kB (5%)

Content Size

1.6 MB

After Optimization

1.5 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Surfalliance.co.za main page is 1.6 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. 80% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Images take 960.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 49.9 kB

  • Original 60.5 kB
  • After minification 59.4 kB
  • After compression 10.5 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 49.9 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 15.2 kB

  • Original 960.2 kB
  • After minification 945.0 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. Surf Alliance images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 6.2 kB

  • Original 446.7 kB
  • After minification 446.7 kB
  • After compression 440.5 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 3.1 kB

  • Original 106.7 kB
  • After minification 106.7 kB
  • After compression 103.6 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. Surfalliance.co.za has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 27 (71%)

Requests Now

38

After Optimization

11

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 38 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Surf Alliance. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 19 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 10 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

surfalliance.co.za

surfalliance.co.za

783 ms

surfalliance.co.za

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1416 ms

style-1.css

style-1.css

267 ms

gridbox.css

gridbox.css

539 ms

responsive.css

responsive.css

996 ms

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773 ms

css

css

37 ms

custom.css

custom.css

779 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

1031 ms

bootstrap.js

bootstrap.js

788 ms

index.php

index.php

936 ms

gridbox.js

gridbox.js

1045 ms

index.php

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1230 ms

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1067 ms

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93 ms

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1201 ms

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1257 ms

material.css

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1307 ms

initItems.js

initItems.js

1312 ms

initmenu.js

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1335 ms

initText.js

initText.js

1471 ms

initMasonryBlog.js

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1489 ms

social.js

social.js

1509 ms

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1557 ms

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recaptcha__en_gb.js

29 ms

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169 ms

sa-logo.png

sa-logo.png

501 ms

web-background.jpg

web-background.jpg

1105 ms

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795 ms

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1561 ms

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1041 ms

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782 ms

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834 ms

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1057 ms

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www-player.css

8 ms

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www-embed-player.js

32 ms

base.js

base.js

58 ms

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ad_status.js

209 ms

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40 ms

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19 ms

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104 ms

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14 ms

Accessibility Review

surfalliance.co.za accessibility score

90

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

surfalliance.co.za 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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

surfalliance.co.za SEO score

100

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Surfalliance.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 Surfalliance.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

surfalliance.co.za

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