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Report Summary

  • 29

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    49% of other websites

  • 69

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 35% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 81

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    43% of websites

cape-connect.com

Cape Connect Internet (Pty) Ltd

Page Load Speed

2.4 sec in total

First Response

352 ms

Resources Loaded

1.8 sec

Page Rendered

223 ms

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About Website

Visit cape-connect.com now to see the best up-to-date Cape Connect content for South Africa and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about cape-connect.com

Cape Connect provides fibre optic and wireless internet connections and VOIP solutions in the Cape Town area. Our offices are in Somerset West. Our service area includes Stellenbosch and Constantia

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Key Findings

We analyzed Cape-connect.com page load time and found that the first response time was 352 ms and then it took 2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 40% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

cape-connect.com performance score

29

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.9 s

4/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value15.3 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value12.3 s

3/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value500 ms

58/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.182

67/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value13.0 s

13/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

cape-connect.com

352 ms

bootstrap.min.css

409 ms

settings.css

328 ms

ddlevelsmenu-base.css

170 ms

ddlevelsmenu-topbar.css

174 ms

Our browser made a total of 41 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 90% of them (37 requests) were addressed to the original Cape-connect.com, 5% (2 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 2% (1 request) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.1 sec) belongs to the original domain Cape-connect.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 926.7 kB (44%)

Content Size

2.1 MB

After Optimization

1.2 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Cape-connect.com main page is 2.1 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. 40% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 36.7 kB

  • Original 42.8 kB
  • After minification 37.0 kB
  • After compression 6.1 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 5.8 kB, which is 14% 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 36.7 kB or 86% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-28%

Potential reduce by 384.2 kB

  • Original 1.4 MB
  • After minification 991.7 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. Obviously, Cape Connect needs image optimization as it can save up to 384.2 kB or 28% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-70%

Potential reduce by 291.9 kB

  • Original 415.6 kB
  • After minification 406.3 kB
  • After compression 123.7 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 291.9 kB or 70% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 213.9 kB

  • Original 252.8 kB
  • After minification 230.2 kB
  • After compression 38.9 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. Cape-connect.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 213.9 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 21 (57%)

Requests Now

37

After Optimization

16

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 37 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Cape Connect. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 14 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 9 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

cape-connect.com

cape-connect.com

352 ms

bootstrap.min.css

bootstrap.min.css

409 ms

settings.css

settings.css

328 ms

ddlevelsmenu-base.css

ddlevelsmenu-base.css

170 ms

ddlevelsmenu-topbar.css

ddlevelsmenu-topbar.css

174 ms

prettyPhoto.css

prettyPhoto.css

258 ms

slider.css

slider.css

260 ms

font-awesome.min.css

font-awesome.min.css

351 ms

style.css

style.css

358 ms

transparent.png

transparent.png

355 ms

workslider.png

workslider.png

925 ms

hybridslider.png

hybridslider.png

738 ms

jquery.js

jquery.js

601 ms

bootstrap.min.js

bootstrap.min.js

452 ms

jquery.themepunch.plugins.min.js

jquery.themepunch.plugins.min.js

533 ms

jquery.themepunch.revolution.min.js

jquery.themepunch.revolution.min.js

498 ms

jquery.prettyPhoto.js

jquery.prettyPhoto.js

545 ms

jquery.isotope.js

jquery.isotope.js

591 ms

ddlevelsmenu.js

ddlevelsmenu.js

638 ms

jquery.cslider.js

jquery.cslider.js

638 ms

modernizr.custom.69985.js

modernizr.custom.69985.js

675 ms

filter.js

filter.js

682 ms

respond.min.js

respond.min.js

705 ms

html5shiv.js

html5shiv.js

712 ms

custom.js

custom.js

755 ms

homeslider.png

homeslider.png

1081 ms

phoneslider.png

phoneslider.png

1031 ms

faxslider.png

faxslider.png

1128 ms

ICASA.jpg

ICASA.jpg

840 ms

icode.jpg

icode.jpg

999 ms

ISPA.JPG

ISPA.JPG

848 ms

css

css

26 ms

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cJZKeOuBrn4kERxqtaUH3aCWcynf_cDxXwCLxiixG1c.ttf

9 ms

MTP_ySUJH_bn48VBG8sNSonF5uFdDttMLvmWuJdhhgs.ttf

MTP_ySUJH_bn48VBG8sNSonF5uFdDttMLvmWuJdhhgs.ttf

12 ms

fontawesome-webfont.woff

fontawesome-webfont.woff

518 ms

loader.gif

loader.gif

148 ms

timer.png

timer.png

150 ms

large_left.png

large_left.png

186 ms

large_right.png

large_right.png

249 ms

arrow-down.png

arrow-down.png

258 ms

load_badge.js

load_badge.js

341 ms

Accessibility Review

cape-connect.com accessibility score

69

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

cape-connect.com best practices score

67

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

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

cape-connect.com SEO score

81

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 uses legible font sizes

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

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 Cape-connect.com 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 Cape-connect.com 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

cape-connect.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Cape Connect. 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: