Report Summary

  • 65

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    79% of other websites

  • 76

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 43% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 97

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    91% of websites

westerncape.yalwa.co.za

Western Cape Business Directory – Yalwa™ - Find, rate, share

Page Load Speed

2.8 sec in total

First Response

449 ms

Resources Loaded

2.1 sec

Page Rendered

254 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Westerncape.yalwa.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 449 ms and then it took 2.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 45% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

westerncape.yalwa.co.za performance score

65

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.0 s

50/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.6 s

61/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.7 s

85/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value160 ms

93/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.616

10/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value6.0 s

64/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

westerncape.yalwa.co.za

449 ms

detect_mobile.js

391 ms

yalwa.css

368 ms

sprites_flags.css

499 ms

jquery-ui.css

353 ms

Our browser made a total of 45 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 7% of them (3 requests) were addressed to the original Westerncape.yalwa.co.za, 67% (30 requests) were made to Static.yalwa.com and 7% (3 requests) were made to Ajax.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (698 ms) relates to the external source Blueplanetcertificate.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 223.5 kB (47%)

Content Size

471.3 kB

After Optimization

247.8 kB

In fact, the total size of Westerncape.yalwa.co.za main page is 471.3 kB. 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. Javascripts take 343.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 30.4 kB

  • Original 40.0 kB
  • After minification 39.8 kB
  • After compression 9.6 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 30.4 kB or 76% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 434 B

  • Original 75.4 kB
  • After minification 74.9 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. Western Cape Yalwa images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-54%

Potential reduce by 185.9 kB

  • Original 343.0 kB
  • After minification 343.0 kB
  • After compression 157.0 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 185.9 kB or 54% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-52%

Potential reduce by 6.7 kB

  • Original 12.9 kB
  • After minification 6.4 kB
  • After compression 6.2 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. Westerncape.yalwa.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 6.7 kB or 52% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 25 (64%)

Requests Now

39

After Optimization

14

The browser has sent 39 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Western Cape Yalwa. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 20 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

westerncape.yalwa.co.za accessibility score

76

Accessibility Issues

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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

Best Practices

westerncape.yalwa.co.za best practices score

67

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

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

westerncape.yalwa.co.za SEO score

97

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

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 Westerncape.yalwa.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 Westerncape.yalwa.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 Western Cape Yalwa. 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: