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Report Summary

  • 21

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    40% of other websites

  • 78

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 47% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    84% of websites

eatoutthebox.co.za

Eat Out the Box - handcrafted gourmet takeaways - Southern Suburbs

Page Load Speed

7.4 sec in total

First Response

913 ms

Resources Loaded

6.2 sec

Page Rendered

290 ms

eatoutthebox.co.za screenshot

About Website

Welcome to eatoutthebox.co.za homepage info - get ready to check Eat Out The Box best content for South Africa right away, or after learning these important things about eatoutthebox.co.za

Eat Out The Box is your new favourite takeaway! Try our thin base wood-fire pizzas, pastas, gourmet burgers, slow cooked BBQ ribs and fresh salads.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Eatoutthebox.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 913 ms and then it took 6.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 75% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

eatoutthebox.co.za performance score

21

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.7 s

13/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.4 s

4/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value12.7 s

3/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,270 ms

19/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.156

74/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value13.0 s

12/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

eatoutthebox.co.za

913 ms

www.eatoutthebox.co.za

1273 ms

jquery.fancybox-1.3.4.css

219 ms

jquery.min.js

873 ms

jquery.fancybox-1.3.4.pack.js

650 ms

Our browser made a total of 44 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 93% of them (41 requests) were addressed to the original Eatoutthebox.co.za, 5% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 2% (1 request) were made to Stats.g.doubleclick.net. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.9 sec) belongs to the original domain Eatoutthebox.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 442.1 kB (14%)

Content Size

3.1 MB

After Optimization

2.7 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Eatoutthebox.co.za main page is 3.1 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. 35% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 2.8 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-88%

Potential reduce by 46.9 kB

  • Original 53.0 kB
  • After minification 47.2 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 11% 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 46.9 kB or 88% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 223.2 kB

  • Original 2.8 MB
  • After minification 2.6 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. Eat Out The Box images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-59%

Potential reduce by 133.6 kB

  • Original 227.6 kB
  • After minification 227.1 kB
  • After compression 94.0 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 133.6 kB or 59% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 38.5 kB

  • Original 46.2 kB
  • After minification 36.1 kB
  • After compression 7.7 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. Eatoutthebox.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 38.5 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 6 (14%)

Requests Now

42

After Optimization

36

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 42 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Eat Out The Box. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 7 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

eatoutthebox.co.za

eatoutthebox.co.za

913 ms

www.eatoutthebox.co.za

www.eatoutthebox.co.za

1273 ms

jquery.fancybox-1.3.4.css

jquery.fancybox-1.3.4.css

219 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

873 ms

jquery.fancybox-1.3.4.pack.js

jquery.fancybox-1.3.4.pack.js

650 ms

jquery.mousewheel-3.0.4.pack.js

jquery.mousewheel-3.0.4.pack.js

651 ms

styles.css

styles.css

652 ms

bx_slider.js

bx_slider.js

651 ms

cufon.js

cufon.js

652 ms

wellrock_slab.js

wellrock_slab.js

1085 ms

bg.jpg

bg.jpg

2182 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

137 ms

logo.png

logo.png

433 ms

top_nav_unactive.jpg

top_nav_unactive.jpg

218 ms

38_delivery-banner.png

38_delivery-banner.png

1334 ms

39_take-2-pizza-banner.png

39_take-2-pizza-banner.png

1733 ms

50_take-2-pizza-banner.png

50_take-2-pizza-banner.png

2001 ms

51_delivery-banner.png

51_delivery-banner.png

1735 ms

special_bg.png

special_bg.png

648 ms

specials.png

specials.png

1954 ms

1_pizza-t2.png

1_pizza-t2.png

1551 ms

2_t2-burger-sp.png

2_t2-burger-sp.png

1770 ms

3_take-2-p-pic.png

3_take-2-p-pic.png

1946 ms

default.jpg

default.jpg

1950 ms

areas_sprite.png

areas_sprite.png

2205 ms

areas_image.jpg

areas_image.jpg

2165 ms

pdf_image.jpg

pdf_image.jpg

2168 ms

more_image.jpg

more_image.jpg

2172 ms

about_us_image.jpg

about_us_image.jpg

2182 ms

hand_crafted_image.jpg

hand_crafted_image.jpg

2854 ms

meet_the_team_image.jpg

meet_the_team_image.jpg

2382 ms

footer_bg.jpg

footer_bg.jpg

2383 ms

visa.jpg

visa.jpg

2387 ms

maestro.jpg

maestro.jpg

2397 ms

thawte.jpg

thawte.jpg

2418 ms

mailing_list.jpg

mailing_list.jpg

2597 ms

facebook.jpg

facebook.jpg

2598 ms

twitter.jpg

twitter.jpg

2601 ms

send_feedback.jpg

send_feedback.jpg

2586 ms

need-assistance.png

need-assistance.png

2606 ms

active_dot.png

active_dot.png

2697 ms

unactive_dot.png

unactive_dot.png

2699 ms

collect

collect

16 ms

collect

collect

55 ms

Accessibility Review

eatoutthebox.co.za accessibility score

78

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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

eatoutthebox.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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

eatoutthebox.co.za SEO score

93

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

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

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Eatoutthebox.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 Eatoutthebox.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

eatoutthebox.co.za

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Eat Out The Box. 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: