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Report Summary

  • 96

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    94% of other websites

  • 72

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 37% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 58

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    21% of websites

gardenroute.co.za

Garden Route South Africa Guide, Accommodation in the Garden Route South Africa

Page Load Speed

1.8 sec in total

First Response

584 ms

Resources Loaded

1.1 sec

Page Rendered

107 ms

gardenroute.co.za screenshot

About Website

Click here to check amazing Garden Route content for South Africa. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about gardenroute.co.za

Accommodation, Hotels, Bed and Breakfast, Guest Houses, Budget, Backpackers, Adventure Activities and Restaurants in the Garden Route South Africa

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Key Findings

We analyzed Gardenroute.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 584 ms and then it took 1.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 25% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

gardenroute.co.za performance score

96

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.6 s

94/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value1.9 s

98/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value2.2 s

99/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value140 ms

95/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.001

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value4.0 s

88/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

gardenroute.co.za

584 ms

styles.css

100 ms

stylesck.css

528 ms

logo.jpg

444 ms

landingpg.jpg

282 ms

Our browser made a total of 17 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 82% of them (14 requests) were addressed to the original Gardenroute.co.za, 12% (2 requests) were made to Gardenroute.org and 6% (1 request) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (584 ms) belongs to the original domain Gardenroute.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 60.5 kB (23%)

Content Size

266.0 kB

After Optimization

205.6 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Gardenroute.co.za main page is 266.0 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. 20% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 225.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 13.8 kB

  • Original 17.6 kB
  • After minification 14.1 kB
  • After compression 3.8 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 3.5 kB, which is 20% 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 13.8 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-20%

Potential reduce by 46.2 kB

  • Original 225.5 kB
  • After minification 179.2 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. Obviously, Garden Route needs image optimization as it can save up to 46.2 kB or 20% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 50 B

  • Original 21.0 kB
  • After minification 21.0 kB
  • After compression 20.9 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-19%

Potential reduce by 375 B

  • Original 2.0 kB
  • After minification 2.0 kB
  • After compression 1.6 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. Gardenroute.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 375 B or 19% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

16

After Optimization

16

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 16 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Garden Route. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Network Requests Diagram

gardenroute.co.za

gardenroute.co.za

584 ms

styles.css

styles.css

100 ms

stylesck.css

stylesck.css

528 ms

logo.jpg

logo.jpg

444 ms

landingpg.jpg

landingpg.jpg

282 ms

misty_anim.gif

misty_anim.gif

288 ms

cypresscottagelogo.png

cypresscottagelogo.png

378 ms

taitmarine.jpg

taitmarine.jpg

197 ms

homecare.jpg

homecare.jpg

195 ms

africandevelop.jpg

africandevelop.jpg

287 ms

adventures.jpg

adventures.jpg

301 ms

summersplashfestival.jpg

summersplashfestival.jpg

301 ms

ianfleming_s.jpg

ianfleming_s.jpg

388 ms

monkeyland.jpg

monkeyland.jpg

391 ms

basin.jpg

basin.jpg

393 ms

knysnaribadventures.jpg

knysnaribadventures.jpg

404 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

17 ms

Accessibility Review

gardenroute.co.za accessibility score

72

Accessibility Issues

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

Best Practices

gardenroute.co.za best practices score

67

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

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

High

Serves images with low resolution

SEO Factors

gardenroute.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 Gardenroute.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 Gardenroute.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

gardenroute.co.za

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Garden Route. 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: