Report Summary

  • 22

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    40% of other websites

  • 62

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 28% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    95% of websites

cathedralpeak.co.za

Home - Cathedral Peak Hotel

Page Load Speed

5.8 sec in total

First Response

1.2 sec

Resources Loaded

4.3 sec

Page Rendered

275 ms

cathedralpeak.co.za screenshot

About Website

Welcome to cathedralpeak.co.za homepage info - get ready to check Cathedral Peak best content for South Africa right away, or after learning these important things about cathedralpeak.co.za

Nestled in the heart of the Drakensberg lies 4-star family-owned Cathedral Peak Hotel. over 80 years we have been providing premier accommodation.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Cathedralpeak.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 1.2 sec and then it took 4.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 70% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

cathedralpeak.co.za performance score

22

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.5 s

15/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value19.8 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value13.2 s

2/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,500 ms

14/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.085

93/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value11.2 s

20/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

cathedralpeak.co.za

1238 ms

lightbox.css

864 ms

ceebox-min.css

868 ms

jquery-ui-1.7.3.custom.css

960 ms

css.css

961 ms

Our browser made a total of 77 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 75% of them (58 requests) were addressed to the original Cathedralpeak.co.za, 6% (5 requests) were made to Translate.googleapis.com and 4% (3 requests) were made to Platform.twitter.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.5 sec) belongs to the original domain Cathedralpeak.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 395.6 kB (5%)

Content Size

7.8 MB

After Optimization

7.4 MB

In fact, the total size of Cathedralpeak.co.za main page is 7.8 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. 55% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 7.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-73%

Potential reduce by 22.6 kB

  • Original 31.0 kB
  • After minification 29.4 kB
  • After compression 8.4 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 22.6 kB or 73% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 52.3 kB

  • Original 7.2 MB
  • After minification 7.2 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. Cathedral Peak images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-61%

Potential reduce by 275.6 kB

  • Original 451.7 kB
  • After minification 391.7 kB
  • After compression 176.1 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 275.6 kB or 61% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 45.2 kB

  • Original 58.1 kB
  • After minification 47.0 kB
  • After compression 12.9 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. Cathedralpeak.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 45.2 kB or 78% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 30 (40%)

Requests Now

75

After Optimization

45

The browser has sent 75 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Cathedral Peak. 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 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

cathedralpeak.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.

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

ARIA IDs are not unique

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

cathedralpeak.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

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

cathedralpeak.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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Cathedralpeak.co.za can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Cathedralpeak.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 Cathedral Peak. 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: