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Report Summary

  • 89

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    90% of other websites

  • 48

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 20% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 67

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    25% of websites

africa4u.co.za

Afric4U. South African travel destinations, accommodation, game lodges, hotels, reserves, safaris, tours, wildlife, cape, gauteng, free state, kwazulu...

Page Load Speed

22.4 sec in total

First Response

969 ms

Resources Loaded

20.8 sec

Page Rendered

628 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Africa4u.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 969 ms and then it took 21.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is an excellent result, as only a small number of websites can load faster. Unfortunately, there was 1 request timeout, which can generally increase the web page load time, as the browser stays idle while waiting for website response.

Performance Metrics

africa4u.co.za performance score

89

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.1 s

99/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value1.8 s

98/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value12.4 s

3/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value90 ms

98/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.01

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value1.4 s

100/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

africa4u.co.za

969 ms

shop_christian_180x150.asp

19710 ms

ornabkgr.gif

484 ms

a4uhedleft.jpg

756 ms

a4uhedright.jpg

756 ms

Our browser made a total of 18 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 56% of them (10 requests) were addressed to the original Africa4u.co.za, 17% (3 requests) were made to Sm8.sitemeter.com and 6% (1 request) were made to Etrader.kalahari.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (19.7 sec) relates to the external source Etrader.kalahari.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 17.8 kB (20%)

Content Size

87.2 kB

After Optimization

69.3 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript

In fact, the total size of Africa4u.co.za main page is 87.2 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 5% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 63.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-69%

Potential reduce by 10.9 kB

  • Original 15.9 kB
  • After minification 15.0 kB
  • After compression 5.0 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 10.9 kB or 69% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 1.2 kB

  • Original 63.7 kB
  • After minification 62.6 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. Africa 4 U images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 5.8 kB

  • Original 7.6 kB
  • After minification 5.7 kB
  • After compression 1.8 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 5.8 kB or 77% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

11

After Optimization

11

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript

The browser has sent 11 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Africa 4 U. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Network Requests Diagram

africa4u.co.za

africa4u.co.za

969 ms

shop_christian_180x150.asp

shop_christian_180x150.asp

19710 ms

ornabkgr.gif

ornabkgr.gif

484 ms

a4uhedleft.jpg

a4uhedleft.jpg

756 ms

a4uhedright.jpg

a4uhedright.jpg

756 ms

leftstrip.gif

leftstrip.gif

494 ms

code.jpg

code.jpg

496 ms

welcomesmll.jpg

welcomesmll.jpg

495 ms

saflag.jpg

saflag.jpg

733 ms

mosselbaai%20062_small.jpg

mosselbaai%20062_small.jpg

759 ms

samap.jpg

samap.jpg

1065 ms

counter.js

counter.js

56 ms

counter.asp

counter.asp

9 ms

meter.asp

meter.asp

42 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

223 ms

mpp.vindicosuite.com

mpp.vindicosuite.com

67 ms

meter.asp

meter.asp

43 ms

0

0

228 ms

Accessibility Review

africa4u.co.za accessibility score

48

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

Best Practices

africa4u.co.za best practices score

67

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

africa4u.co.za SEO score

67

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

    EN

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Africa4u.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 Africa4u.co.za 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

africa4u.co.za

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Africa 4 U. 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: