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Report Summary

  • 6

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    21% of other websites

  • 74

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 40% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 84

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    52% of websites

vacationista.co.za

Home | Rent Cape Town's most exclusive & luxurious Vacation Destinations

Page Load Speed

4.1 sec in total

First Response

507 ms

Resources Loaded

2.4 sec

Page Rendered

1.2 sec

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Key Findings

We analyzed Vacationista.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 507 ms and then it took 3.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 60% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

vacationista.co.za performance score

6

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.8 s

28/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value33.5 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value26.5 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,490 ms

4/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.554

13/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value36.3 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

vacationista.co.za

507 ms

vacationista.co.za

404 ms

formreset.min.css

31 ms

formsmain.min.css

42 ms

readyclass.min.css

40 ms

Our browser made a total of 191 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 97% of them (186 requests) were addressed to the original Vacationista.co.za, 1% (2 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com and 1% (2 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (522 ms) belongs to the original domain Vacationista.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 247.5 kB (3%)

Content Size

8.2 MB

After Optimization

8.0 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Vacationista.co.za main page is 8.2 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. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Images take 6.9 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 233.6 kB

  • Original 278.6 kB
  • After minification 272.4 kB
  • After compression 45.0 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 233.6 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 5.3 kB

  • Original 6.9 MB
  • After minification 6.9 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. Vacation Ista images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 4.4 kB

  • Original 829.6 kB
  • After minification 829.6 kB
  • After compression 825.2 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

-2%

Potential reduce by 4.2 kB

  • Original 235.6 kB
  • After minification 233.6 kB
  • After compression 231.4 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. Vacationista.co.za has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 110 (60%)

Requests Now

183

After Optimization

73

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 183 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Vacation Ista. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 69 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 43 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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Accessibility Review

vacationista.co.za accessibility score

74

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-*] attributes do not match their roles

High

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

High

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

High

ARIA input fields do not have accessible names

High

[aria-*] attributes do not have valid values

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

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

vacationista.co.za best practices score

92

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

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

vacationista.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 Vacationista.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 Vacationista.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

vacationista.co.za

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