Report Summary

  • 21

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    39% of other websites

  • 84

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 56% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

willowmead.co.za

Willowmead Medical Centre - Doctors, Dentists, Pharmacy and Physiotherapists in Rondebosch East, Cape Town

Page Load Speed

15.2 sec in total

First Response

2.6 sec

Resources Loaded

12 sec

Page Rendered

579 ms

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About Website

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The Willowmead Medical Centre offers a comprehensive range of medical and paramedical services, all under one roof in Rondebosch East, Cape Town.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Willowmead.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 2.6 sec and then it took 12.6 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

willowmead.co.za performance score

21

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value13.5 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value23.4 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value28.5 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,170 ms

21/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.071

96/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value24.3 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.willowmead.co.za

2617 ms

animate.min.css

620 ms

layerslider.css

916 ms

frontend.css

911 ms

styles.css

918 ms

Our browser made a total of 148 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 76% of them (113 requests) were addressed to the original Willowmead.co.za, 20% (30 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 2% (3 requests) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (3.1 sec) belongs to the original domain Willowmead.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 157.2 kB (6%)

Content Size

2.7 MB

After Optimization

2.5 MB

In fact, the total size of Willowmead.co.za main page is 2.7 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. 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 1.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 121.0 kB

  • Original 142.8 kB
  • After minification 139.2 kB
  • After compression 21.8 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 121.0 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 19.7 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. Willowmead images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 4.6 kB

  • Original 781.6 kB
  • After minification 781.6 kB
  • After compression 776.9 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 11.8 kB

  • Original 359.3 kB
  • After minification 358.3 kB
  • After compression 347.5 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. Willowmead.co.za has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 96 (82%)

Requests Now

117

After Optimization

21

The browser has sent 117 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Willowmead. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 52 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 46 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

willowmead.co.za accessibility score

84

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

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

willowmead.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

willowmead.co.za SEO score

86

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

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

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 Willowmead.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 Willowmead.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

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Willowmead. Lack of Open Graph description can be counter-productive for their social media presence, as such a description allows converting a website homepage (or other pages) into good-looking, rich and well-structured posts, when it is being shared on Facebook and other social media. For example, adding the following code snippet into HTML <head> tag will help to represent this web page correctly in social networks: