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Report Summary

  • 60

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    76% of other websites

  • 53

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 22% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 69

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    28% of websites

africarhire.com

Car Rental South Africa. Hertz Car Hire South Africa - 4x4 Hire

Page Load Speed

3.1 sec in total

First Response

649 ms

Resources Loaded

2.3 sec

Page Rendered

114 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Africarhire.com page load time and found that the first response time was 649 ms and then it took 2.5 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

africarhire.com performance score

60

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.6 s

65/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.6 s

3/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value12.6 s

3/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value5.3 s

73/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.africarhire.com

649 ms

styles_2.1.css;jsessionid=BA4E7D561F7641991FF5C9868F0ADCBE

272 ms

index.jsp;rn=520632913899

254 ms

jch_plugin.js

652 ms

banner.jpg

805 ms

Our browser made a total of 13 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 77% of them (10 requests) were addressed to the original Africarhire.com, 15% (2 requests) were made to Justcarhire.co.za and 8% (1 request) were made to Secure.justcarhire.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (807 ms) belongs to the original domain Africarhire.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 102.4 kB (36%)

Content Size

283.9 kB

After Optimization

181.5 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Africarhire.com main page is 283.9 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. 15% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 168.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-72%

Potential reduce by 5.5 kB

  • Original 7.6 kB
  • After minification 6.9 kB
  • After compression 2.1 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 5.5 kB or 72% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-14%

Potential reduce by 23.9 kB

  • Original 168.1 kB
  • After minification 144.2 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. Obviously, Africa R Hire needs image optimization as it can save up to 23.9 kB or 14% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-65%

Potential reduce by 63.6 kB

  • Original 97.5 kB
  • After minification 95.4 kB
  • After compression 33.8 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 63.6 kB or 65% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-88%

Potential reduce by 9.4 kB

  • Original 10.7 kB
  • After minification 7.7 kB
  • After compression 1.3 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. Africarhire.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 9.4 kB or 88% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

12

After Optimization

12

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 12 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Africa R Hire. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Network Requests Diagram

www.africarhire.com

www.africarhire.com

649 ms

styles_2.1.css;jsessionid=BA4E7D561F7641991FF5C9868F0ADCBE

styles_2.1.css;jsessionid=BA4E7D561F7641991FF5C9868F0ADCBE

272 ms

index.jsp;rn=520632913899

index.jsp;rn=520632913899

254 ms

jch_plugin.js

jch_plugin.js

652 ms

banner.jpg

banner.jpg

805 ms

top_grad.jpg

top_grad.jpg

529 ms

littleCarCut.png

littleCarCut.png

807 ms

logos.png

logos.png

768 ms

roomsLogo.png

roomsLogo.png

524 ms

offRoadLogo.png

offRoadLogo.png

795 ms

motorHomeLogo.png

motorHomeLogo.png

794 ms

jquery-1.9.1.min.js

jquery-1.9.1.min.js

516 ms

button.png

button.png

407 ms

Accessibility Review

africarhire.com accessibility score

53

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.

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

africarhire.com 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

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

africarhire.com SEO score

69

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

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Africarhire.com can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Africarhire.com main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

africarhire.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Africa R Hire. 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: