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Report Summary

  • 56

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    73% of other websites

  • 48

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 20% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    19% of websites

  • 58

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    20% of websites

daytrips.co.za

Tours and Day trips - city breaks with elephanting, ballooning and battlefields

Page Load Speed

5 sec in total

First Response

864 ms

Resources Loaded

4 sec

Page Rendered

186 ms

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About Website

Welcome to daytrips.co.za homepage info - get ready to check Day Trips best content right away, or after learning these important things about daytrips.co.za

South African Tours and Day trips, find things to do and places to see for your weekends away and holiday excursions

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Key Findings

We analyzed Daytrips.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 864 ms and then it took 4.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 65% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

daytrips.co.za performance score

56

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.8 s

11/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.6 s

4/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.3 s

19/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value50 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.005

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value5.6 s

69/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

daytrips.co.za

864 ms

vfa.css

284 ms

vicfalls.css

544 ms

format.css

557 ms

nivo-slider2.css

559 ms

Our browser made a total of 44 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 89% of them (39 requests) were addressed to the original Daytrips.co.za, 5% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 2% (1 request) were made to Cdn.socialtwist.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2 sec) belongs to the original domain Daytrips.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 156.5 kB (23%)

Content Size

681.2 kB

After Optimization

524.6 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Daytrips.co.za main page is 681.2 kB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 25% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 483.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 22.5 kB

  • Original 27.6 kB
  • After minification 23.1 kB
  • After compression 5.1 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 4.5 kB, which is 16% 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 22.5 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 23.7 kB

  • Original 483.6 kB
  • After minification 459.9 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. Day Trips images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-64%

Potential reduce by 100.5 kB

  • Original 158.0 kB
  • After minification 155.5 kB
  • After compression 57.5 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 100.5 kB or 64% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 9.9 kB

  • Original 12.0 kB
  • After minification 8.0 kB
  • After compression 2.1 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. Daytrips.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 9.9 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 8 (20%)

Requests Now

41

After Optimization

33

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 41 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Day Trips. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 6 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

daytrips.co.za

daytrips.co.za

864 ms

vfa.css

vfa.css

284 ms

vicfalls.css

vicfalls.css

544 ms

format.css

format.css

557 ms

nivo-slider2.css

nivo-slider2.css

559 ms

default.css

default.css

560 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

843 ms

jquery.nivo.slider.pack.js

jquery.nivo.slider.pack.js

561 ms

javascript.js

javascript.js

813 ms

script.js

script.js

120 ms

ga.js

ga.js

16 ms

button.png

button.png

457 ms

bgcolour4.gif

bgcolour4.gif

286 ms

head-tile.jpg

head-tile.jpg

285 ms

head.jpg

head.jpg

557 ms

elephant.jpg

elephant.jpg

563 ms

cub.jpg

cub.jpg

543 ms

shark.jpg

shark.jpg

282 ms

soweto-towers.jpg

soweto-towers.jpg

1118 ms

madikwe-safari-lodge.jpg

madikwe-safari-lodge.jpg

1409 ms

golf2.jpg

golf2.jpg

1124 ms

beach-lodge.jpg

beach-lodge.jpg

1085 ms

springbok_tent.jpg

springbok_tent.jpg

834 ms

th-ind-argus.jpg

th-ind-argus.jpg

843 ms

th-ind-kruger.jpg

th-ind-kruger.jpg

1113 ms

th-ind-kruger2.jpg

th-ind-kruger2.jpg

1123 ms

th-ind-hazyview1.jpg

th-ind-hazyview1.jpg

1356 ms

th-ind-hazyview2.jpg

th-ind-hazyview2.jpg

1391 ms

th-ind-hazyview3.jpg

th-ind-hazyview3.jpg

1396 ms

th-ind-shark.jpg

th-ind-shark.jpg

1403 ms

th-ind-whale.jpg

th-ind-whale.jpg

1405 ms

th-ind-ballooning.jpg

th-ind-ballooning.jpg

1628 ms

th-ind-pilans.jpg

th-ind-pilans.jpg

1669 ms

th-ind-oribi.jpg

th-ind-oribi.jpg

1674 ms

th-ind-cradle.jpg

th-ind-cradle.jpg

1682 ms

kdatravelfoot.jpg

kdatravelfoot.jpg

1961 ms

contact.png

contact.png

1970 ms

getScriptJS.js

getScriptJS.js

60 ms

arrow-r.png

arrow-r.png

1889 ms

arrow-d.png

arrow-d.png

1935 ms

loading.gif

loading.gif

1943 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

11 ms

arrows.png

arrows.png

281 ms

bullets.png

bullets.png

282 ms

Accessibility Review

daytrips.co.za accessibility score

48

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

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

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

daytrips.co.za best practices score

58

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

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

daytrips.co.za SEO score

58

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

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Daytrips.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 Daytrips.co.za main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. Changing it to UTF-8 can be a good choice, as this format is commonly used for encoding all over the web and thus their visitors won’t have any troubles with symbol transcription or reading.

Social Sharing Optimization

daytrips.co.za

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Day Trips. 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: