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Report Summary

  • 32

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    52% of other websites

  • 96

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 88% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    83% of websites

thelookout.co.za

The Lookout Guest House | Luxurious Guest House Accommodation | Port Alfred accommodation| B&B accommodation | Eastern Cape accommodation| Self-cateri...

Page Load Speed

2.9 sec in total

First Response

410 ms

Resources Loaded

2 sec

Page Rendered

520 ms

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About Website

Click here to check amazing The Lookout content. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about thelookout.co.za

The Lookout Guest House, a four star guest house which offers both B&B and self-catering accommodation is situated in Port Alfred, right in the heart of the Eastern Cape's Sunshine Coast.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Thelookout.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 410 ms and then it took 2.5 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

thelookout.co.za performance score

32

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.6 s

31/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.2 s

11/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.0 s

46/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value980 ms

28/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.15

76/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value11.2 s

20/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

thelookout.co.za

410 ms

www.thelookout.co.za

413 ms

www.thelookout.co.za

416 ms

css

54 ms

enterprise.js

58 ms

Our browser made a total of 33 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 9% of them (3 requests) were addressed to the original Thelookout.co.za, 48% (16 requests) were made to B-cdn.springnest.com and 12% (4 requests) were made to Use.fontawesome.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (648 ms) relates to the external source Fonts.gstatic.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 118.3 kB (7%)

Content Size

1.6 MB

After Optimization

1.5 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Thelookout.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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 82.4 kB

  • Original 101.8 kB
  • After minification 82.9 kB
  • After compression 19.4 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 18.9 kB, which is 19% 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 82.4 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 24.4 kB

  • Original 1.2 MB
  • After minification 1.1 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. The Lookout images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 1.0 kB

  • Original 272.4 kB
  • After minification 272.4 kB
  • After compression 271.4 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.

CSS Optimization

-15%

Potential reduce by 10.5 kB

  • Original 69.2 kB
  • After minification 69.2 kB
  • After compression 58.7 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. Thelookout.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 10.5 kB or 15% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 11 (44%)

Requests Now

25

After Optimization

14

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 25 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of The Lookout. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 8 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

thelookout.co.za

thelookout.co.za

410 ms

www.thelookout.co.za

www.thelookout.co.za

413 ms

www.thelookout.co.za

www.thelookout.co.za

416 ms

css

css

54 ms

enterprise.js

enterprise.js

58 ms

js

js

93 ms

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54727f0c8cd1.css

70 ms

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89 ms

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107 ms

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69 ms

recaptcha__en.js

recaptcha__en.js

126 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

144 ms

all.css

all.css

158 ms

8e61611c2c90.js

8e61611c2c90.js

81 ms

calendar-c0e5cf721bb79e441784.js

calendar-c0e5cf721bb79e441784.js

78 ms

piwik.js

piwik.js

311 ms

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79 ms

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230 ms

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167 ms

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257 ms

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255 ms

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256 ms

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255 ms

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255 ms

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257 ms

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4-star-guesthouse-rating90b69dd.png

268 ms

font

font

267 ms

font

font

306 ms

font

font

648 ms

fa-regular-400.woff

fa-regular-400.woff

101 ms

fa-solid-900.woff

fa-solid-900.woff

144 ms

fa-brands-400.woff

fa-brands-400.woff

144 ms

piwik.php

piwik.php

149 ms

Accessibility Review

thelookout.co.za accessibility score

96

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

[aria-hidden="true"] elements contain focusable descendents

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.

Best Practices

thelookout.co.za best practices score

83

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

SEO Factors

thelookout.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 Thelookout.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 Thelookout.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

thelookout.co.za

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