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Report Summary

  • 48

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    67% of other websites

  • 60

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 26% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    95% of websites

foodislove.co.za

Food is love -Food is love

Page Load Speed

11.6 sec in total

First Response

3.8 sec

Resources Loaded

6.6 sec

Page Rendered

1.2 sec

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About Website

Click here to check amazing Food Is Love content. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about foodislove.co.za

My name is Claire, and I am the blogger behind Food is Love. This is where I will be sharing some of my love for all things food as well as my Masterchef SA journey.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Foodislove.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 3.8 sec and then it took 7.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 85% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

foodislove.co.za performance score

48

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.5 s

6/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value11.1 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value12.0 s

4/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value100 ms

98/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.008

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value9.9 s

27/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

foodislove.co.za

3825 ms

css

16 ms

css

32 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

441 ms

style.css

894 ms

Our browser made a total of 69 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 71% of them (49 requests) were addressed to the original Foodislove.co.za, 23% (16 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 3% (2 requests) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (3.8 sec) belongs to the original domain Foodislove.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 543.5 kB (24%)

Content Size

2.2 MB

After Optimization

1.7 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Foodislove.co.za main page is 2.2 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. 55% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.6 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 49.3 kB

  • Original 57.8 kB
  • After minification 47.6 kB
  • After compression 8.5 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 10.2 kB, which is 18% 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 49.3 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 34.5 kB

  • Original 1.6 MB
  • After minification 1.5 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. Food Is Love images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-70%

Potential reduce by 367.4 kB

  • Original 521.1 kB
  • After minification 476.7 kB
  • After compression 153.8 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 367.4 kB or 70% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 92.4 kB

  • Original 110.2 kB
  • After minification 81.1 kB
  • After compression 17.8 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. Foodislove.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 92.4 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 25 (48%)

Requests Now

52

After Optimization

27

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 52 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Food Is Love. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 19 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 8 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

foodislove.co.za

foodislove.co.za

3825 ms

css

css

16 ms

css

css

32 ms

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wp-emoji-release.min.js

441 ms

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style.css

894 ms

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457 ms

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458 ms

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458 ms

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686 ms

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663 ms

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917 ms

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26 ms

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Accessibility Review

foodislove.co.za accessibility score

60

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

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

foodislove.co.za best practices score

75

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

foodislove.co.za SEO score

100

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

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 Foodislove.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 Foodislove.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

foodislove.co.za

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