Report Summary

  • 33

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    53% of other websites

  • 66

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 31% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    75% of websites

dongolahouse.co.za

The Dongola Guesthouse

Page Load Speed

4.9 sec in total

First Response

977 ms

Resources Loaded

3.7 sec

Page Rendered

226 ms

dongolahouse.co.za screenshot

About Website

Welcome to dongolahouse.co.za homepage info - get ready to check Dongola House best content right away, or after learning these important things about dongolahouse.co.za

The Dongola Guesthouse is situated in the tranquil Constantia Valley of Cape Town. We offer luxurious accommodation and modern facilities.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Dongolahouse.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 977 ms and then it took 3.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 60% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

dongolahouse.co.za performance score

33

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.6 s

33/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.6 s

62/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.9 s

10/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,490 ms

14/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.217

57/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value18.2 s

3/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

dongolahouse.co.za

977 ms

jquery.min.js

93 ms

style.css

307 ms

rs-minimal-white.css

489 ms

jquery-1.8.3.min.js

778 ms

Our browser made a total of 109 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 23% of them (25 requests) were addressed to the original Dongolahouse.co.za, 24% (26 requests) were made to Pbs.twimg.com and 9% (10 requests) were made to Static.tacdn.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.5 sec) belongs to the original domain Dongolahouse.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 400.8 kB (26%)

Content Size

1.5 MB

After Optimization

1.1 MB

In fact, the total size of Dongolahouse.co.za main page is 1.5 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. 50% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-71%

Potential reduce by 15.5 kB

  • Original 22.0 kB
  • After minification 21.3 kB
  • After compression 6.5 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 15.5 kB or 71% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 40.4 kB

  • Original 1.0 MB
  • After minification 992.4 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. Dongola House images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-69%

Potential reduce by 283.2 kB

  • Original 411.4 kB
  • After minification 411.3 kB
  • After compression 128.2 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 283.2 kB or 69% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 61.7 kB

  • Original 75.2 kB
  • After minification 64.8 kB
  • After compression 13.5 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. Dongolahouse.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 61.7 kB or 82% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

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

Requests Now

100

After Optimization

60

The browser has sent 100 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Dongola House. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 19 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 10 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

dongolahouse.co.za accessibility score

66

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.

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

<dl>'s do not contain only properly-ordered <dt> and <dd> groups, <script>, <template> or <div> elements.

High

Definition list items are not wrapped in <dl> elements

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

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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

Best Practices

dongolahouse.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

SEO Factors

dongolahouse.co.za SEO score

92

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

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

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 Dongolahouse.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 Dongolahouse.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 Dongola House. 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: