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Report Summary

  • 84

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    88% of other websites

  • 81

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 51% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 98

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    92% of websites

flightmate.co.za

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Page Load Speed

2.7 sec in total

First Response

259 ms

Resources Loaded

2.2 sec

Page Rendered

281 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Flightmate.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 259 ms and then it took 2.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

flightmate.co.za performance score

84

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.8 s

56/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.1 s

75/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.8 s

84/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value40 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.127

82/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value3.3 s

93/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

flightmate.co.za

259 ms

www.flightmate.co.za

608 ms

localization.css

95 ms

_main.css

379 ms

SearchFieldMulti.css

281 ms

Our browser made a total of 39 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that all of those requests were addressed to Flightmate.co.za and no external sources were called. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.3 sec) belongs to the original domain Flightmate.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 130.6 kB (11%)

Content Size

1.2 MB

After Optimization

1.1 MB

  • HTML
  • Images

In fact, the total size of Flightmate.co.za main page is 1.2 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 1.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 76.2 kB

  • Original 92.6 kB
  • After minification 81.1 kB
  • After compression 16.4 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 11.5 kB, which is 12% 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 76.2 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 54.5 kB

  • Original 1.1 MB
  • After minification 1.1 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. Flightmate images are well optimized though.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 12 (33%)

Requests Now

36

After Optimization

24

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 36 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Flightmate. 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 as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

flightmate.co.za

flightmate.co.za

259 ms

www.flightmate.co.za

www.flightmate.co.za

608 ms

localization.css

localization.css

95 ms

_main.css

_main.css

379 ms

SearchFieldMulti.css

SearchFieldMulti.css

281 ms

flightmate.co.za_logo.png

flightmate.co.za_logo.png

279 ms

datepicker.holidays.za.js

datepicker.holidays.za.js

280 ms

pagead.js

pagead.js

279 ms

_main.js

_main.js

369 ms

index.js

index.js

369 ms

handlebarsRuntime.min.js

handlebarsRuntime.min.js

447 ms

searchfield_multi.handlebars.js

searchfield_multi.handlebars.js

446 ms

noInternetAlert.png

noInternetAlert.png

557 ms

abu-dhabi-1.webp

abu-dhabi-1.webp

559 ms

dubai-1.webp

dubai-1.webp

561 ms

milan-1.webp

milan-1.webp

563 ms

angelholm-1.webp

angelholm-1.webp

563 ms

mumbai-1.webp

mumbai-1.webp

561 ms

chennai-1.webp

chennai-1.webp

559 ms

hong-kong-1.webp

hong-kong-1.webp

559 ms

tokyo-1.webp

tokyo-1.webp

652 ms

header_768.jpg

header_768.jpg

738 ms

co.za.svg

co.za.svg

648 ms

sv.svg

sv.svg

650 ms

fi.svg

fi.svg

652 ms

ie.svg

ie.svg

651 ms

no.svg

no.svg

740 ms

dk.svg

dk.svg

741 ms

de.svg

de.svg

744 ms

fr.svg

fr.svg

743 ms

facebook-circle-alt.svg

facebook-circle-alt.svg

745 ms

instagram-circle-alt.svg

instagram-circle-alt.svg

830 ms

twitter-circle-alt.svg

twitter-circle-alt.svg

832 ms

loading_1920.jpg

loading_1920.jpg

1297 ms

flightmate.co.za_logo.svg

flightmate.co.za_logo.svg

834 ms

ajax-loader-large.gif

ajax-loader-large.gif

836 ms

header_1220.jpg

header_1220.jpg

601 ms

ab-checkboxes-blue.png

ab-checkboxes-blue.png

479 ms

icomoon.ttf

icomoon.ttf

459 ms

Accessibility Review

flightmate.co.za accessibility score

81

Accessibility Issues

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-*] attributes do not match their roles

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Some elements have a [tabindex] value greater than 0

Best Practices

flightmate.co.za best practices score

92

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

flightmate.co.za SEO score

98

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

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

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Open Graph data is detected on the main page of Flightmate. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: