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Report Summary

  • 47

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    66% of other websites

  • 62

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 28% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    81% of websites

  • 85

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    56% of websites

5stardurban.co.za

HTTP Server Test Page powered by CentOS-WebPanel.com

Page Load Speed

18.5 sec in total

First Response

4.5 sec

Resources Loaded

13.4 sec

Page Rendered

710 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed 5stardurban.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 4.5 sec and then it took 14.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 90% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

5stardurban.co.za performance score

47

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.0 s

24/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.9 s

29/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.0 s

63/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value660 ms

45/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.189

65/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value4.5 s

82/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

5stardurban.co.za

4466 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

584 ms

34d89e4e_ai1ec_parsed_css.css

1640 ms

opinionstage-style-common.css

590 ms

opinionstage-font.css

592 ms

Our browser made a total of 222 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 48% of them (106 requests) were addressed to the original 5stardurban.co.za, 9% (20 requests) were made to Static.xx.fbcdn.net and 4% (9 requests) were made to Scontent.cdninstagram.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (4.6 sec) belongs to the original domain 5stardurban.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.3 MB (27%)

Content Size

4.9 MB

After Optimization

3.6 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of 5stardurban.co.za main page is 4.9 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. 80% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Images take 3.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 115.4 kB

  • Original 139.5 kB
  • After minification 127.9 kB
  • After compression 24.1 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 115.4 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 185.7 kB

  • Original 3.2 MB
  • After minification 3.0 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. 5 Stardurban images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-64%

Potential reduce by 512.1 kB

  • Original 805.3 kB
  • After minification 741.9 kB
  • After compression 293.3 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 512.1 kB or 64% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-71%

Potential reduce by 515.7 kB

  • Original 729.0 kB
  • After minification 669.0 kB
  • After compression 213.3 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. 5stardurban.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 515.7 kB or 71% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 101 (48%)

Requests Now

212

After Optimization

111

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 212 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of 5 Stardurban. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 54 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 25 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

5stardurban.co.za accessibility score

62

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.

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

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

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

5stardurban.co.za best practices score

92

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

SEO Factors

5stardurban.co.za SEO score

85

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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 5stardurban.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 5stardurban.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 data is detected on the main page of 5 Stardurban. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: