Report Summary

  • 9

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    23% of other websites

  • 87

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 67% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 96

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    91% of websites

climb.co.za

Climb ZA - Blog | Forum | Wiki

Page Load Speed

9.3 sec in total

First Response

782 ms

Resources Loaded

8.3 sec

Page Rendered

298 ms

climb.co.za screenshot

About Website

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

Climb ZA is a rock climbing community website where climbers can find and share information about climbing and bouldering in Southern Africa.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Climb.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 782 ms and then it took 8.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 85% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

climb.co.za performance score

9

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value8.1 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value10.5 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value20.7 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value6,540 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.217

57/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value35.6 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

climb.co.za

782 ms

www.climbing.co.za

2639 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

451 ms

wgs.css

448 ms

colorbox.css

449 ms

Our browser made a total of 149 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Climb.co.za, 36% (53 requests) were made to Climbing.co.za and 7% (10 requests) were made to Scontent.xx.fbcdn.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.6 sec) relates to the external source Climbing.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 854.9 kB (44%)

Content Size

1.9 MB

After Optimization

1.1 MB

In fact, the total size of Climb.co.za main page is 1.9 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 873.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 76.8 kB

  • Original 97.3 kB
  • After minification 97.3 kB
  • After compression 20.5 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 76.8 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 43.2 kB

  • Original 644.6 kB
  • After minification 601.4 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. Climb images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-55%

Potential reduce by 479.3 kB

  • Original 873.7 kB
  • After minification 868.1 kB
  • After compression 394.4 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 479.3 kB or 55% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 255.6 kB

  • Original 307.9 kB
  • After minification 262.6 kB
  • After compression 52.3 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. Climb.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 255.6 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 80 (58%)

Requests Now

139

After Optimization

59

The browser has sent 139 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Climb. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 41 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 22 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

climb.co.za accessibility score

87

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

High

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

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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.

Best Practices

climb.co.za best practices score

83

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

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

climb.co.za SEO score

96

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

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 Climb.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 Climb.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 Climb. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: