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Report Summary

  • 22

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    40% of other websites

  • 72

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 38% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 77

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    36% of websites

beachcomberonline.co.za

Beachcomber Online

Page Load Speed

4.1 sec in total

First Response

757 ms

Resources Loaded

3.2 sec

Page Rendered

147 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Beachcomberonline.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 757 ms and then it took 3.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 55% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

beachcomberonline.co.za performance score

22

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value8.0 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value17.0 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value11.4 s

5/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,130 ms

22/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.03

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value22.1 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

beachcomberonline.co.za

757 ms

login.asp

433 ms

BeachcomberOnlineStyle.css

659 ms

jquery-1.6.1.min.js

1519 ms

jquery.validate.min.js

1158 ms

Our browser made a total of 21 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that all of those requests were addressed to Beachcomberonline.co.za and no external sources were called. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.8 sec) belongs to the original domain Beachcomberonline.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 264.6 kB (54%)

Content Size

493.7 kB

After Optimization

229.1 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Beachcomberonline.co.za main page is 493.7 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. Only 10% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 332.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-73%

Potential reduce by 4.4 kB

  • Original 6.1 kB
  • After minification 5.4 kB
  • After compression 1.7 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 672 B, which is 11% 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 4.4 kB or 73% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 135.3 kB
  • After minification 135.3 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. Beachcomber Online images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-73%

Potential reduce by 243.4 kB

  • Original 332.4 kB
  • After minification 302.4 kB
  • After compression 89.0 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 243.4 kB or 73% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 16.8 kB

  • Original 19.9 kB
  • After minification 16.4 kB
  • After compression 3.1 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. Beachcomberonline.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 16.8 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 9 (47%)

Requests Now

19

After Optimization

10

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 19 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Beachcomber Online. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 10 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

beachcomberonline.co.za

beachcomberonline.co.za

757 ms

login.asp

login.asp

433 ms

BeachcomberOnlineStyle.css

BeachcomberOnlineStyle.css

659 ms

jquery-1.6.1.min.js

jquery-1.6.1.min.js

1519 ms

jquery.validate.min.js

jquery.validate.min.js

1158 ms

jquery.metadata.js

jquery.metadata.js

669 ms

jquery.form.js

jquery.form.js

1107 ms

jquery-ui-1.8.18.custom.min.js

jquery-ui-1.8.18.custom.min.js

1768 ms

jquery.showLoading.min.js

jquery.showLoading.min.js

879 ms

loginForm.js

loginForm.js

889 ms

jquery.easing-1.3.pack.js

jquery.easing-1.3.pack.js

1105 ms

jquery.mousewheel-3.0.4.pack.js

jquery.mousewheel-3.0.4.pack.js

1106 ms

jquery.fancybox-1.3.4.js

jquery.fancybox-1.3.4.js

1332 ms

jquery.fancybox-1.3.4.css

jquery.fancybox-1.3.4.css

1330 ms

BeachcomberLogo.jpg

BeachcomberLogo.jpg

232 ms

BeachcomberOnline.gif

BeachcomberOnline.gif

230 ms

Sign-in.jpg

Sign-in.jpg

435 ms

Submit.jpg

Submit.jpg

231 ms

RegisterNow.jpg

RegisterNow.jpg

253 ms

ForgottenPassword.jpg

ForgottenPassword.jpg

224 ms

Error_Exclamation.jpg

Error_Exclamation.jpg

436 ms

Accessibility Review

beachcomberonline.co.za accessibility score

72

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Form elements do not have associated labels

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

Some elements have a [tabindex] value greater than 0

Best Practices

beachcomberonline.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

beachcomberonline.co.za SEO score

77

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

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 doesn't use legible font sizes

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Beachcomberonline.co.za 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 Beachcomberonline.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

beachcomberonline.co.za

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Beachcomber Online. 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: