Report Summary

  • 100

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    97% of other websites

  • 68

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 33% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 55

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    20% of websites

alexanderbar.co.za

Alexander Bar Archive: 2011 to 2019 - Alexander Bar, Café & Theatre Archive [2011-2019]

Page Load Speed

6.2 sec in total

First Response

526 ms

Resources Loaded

5.3 sec

Page Rendered

369 ms

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About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Alexanderbar.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 526 ms and then it took 5.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 75% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

alexanderbar.co.za performance score

100

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value0.6 s

100/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value0.6 s

100/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value2.2 s

99/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value0.6 s

100/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

alexanderbar.co.za

526 ms

alexanderbar.co.za

1666 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

233 ms

styles.css

463 ms

fancybox.css

670 ms

Our browser made a total of 88 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 36% of them (32 requests) were addressed to the original Alexanderbar.co.za, 31% (27 requests) were made to Pbs.twimg.com and 5% (4 requests) were made to Static.tacdn.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.7 sec) belongs to the original domain Alexanderbar.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 502.9 kB (28%)

Content Size

1.8 MB

After Optimization

1.3 MB

In fact, the total size of Alexanderbar.co.za main page is 1.8 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. 50% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-74%

Potential reduce by 24.5 kB

  • Original 33.1 kB
  • After minification 32.4 kB
  • After compression 8.6 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 24.5 kB or 74% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 21.0 kB

  • Original 1.1 MB
  • After minification 1.1 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. Alexander Bar images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-71%

Potential reduce by 249.1 kB

  • Original 350.1 kB
  • After minification 288.5 kB
  • After compression 101.0 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 249.1 kB or 71% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 208.2 kB

  • Original 243.6 kB
  • After minification 188.6 kB
  • After compression 35.3 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. Alexanderbar.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 208.2 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 38 (46%)

Requests Now

83

After Optimization

45

The browser has sent 83 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Alexander Bar. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 26 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 14 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

alexanderbar.co.za accessibility score

68

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

Document doesn't have a <title> element

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

Best Practices

alexanderbar.co.za best practices score

75

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

SEO Factors

alexanderbar.co.za SEO score

55

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

Document doesn't have a <title> element

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 Alexanderbar.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 Alexanderbar.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 Alexander Bar. 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: