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Report Summary

  • 53

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    70% of other websites

  • 56

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 24% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    20% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    74% of websites

giantscastlereservations.co.za

Giant’s Castle Camp | Giants Castle Game Reserve Reservations | Self Catering Drakensberg Accommodation | Family Holiday

Page Load Speed

6.4 sec in total

First Response

570 ms

Resources Loaded

3.1 sec

Page Rendered

2.7 sec

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About Website

Click here to check amazing Giants Castle Reservations content. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about giantscastlereservations.co.za

The Giants Castle Camp is located in the central Drakensberg, Giants Castle Game Reserve, part of the uKhahlamba Drakensberg Park, a world heritage site. There is a permanent hide, the Lammergeier Hid...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Giantscastlereservations.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 570 ms and then it took 5.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 80% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

giantscastlereservations.co.za performance score

53

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.4 s

71/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.4 s

92/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.1 s

31/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,510 ms

14/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value16.7 s

5/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

giantscastlereservations.co.za

570 ms

bootstrap.min.css

70 ms

font-awesome.min.css

56 ms

bootstrap-datepicker3.css

65 ms

jquery.min.js

58 ms

Our browser made a total of 113 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 71% of them (80 requests) were addressed to the original Giantscastlereservations.co.za, 7% (8 requests) were made to Mpilacamp.co.za and 4% (5 requests) were made to Youtube.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.7 sec) belongs to the original domain Giantscastlereservations.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 154.4 kB (2%)

Content Size

8.5 MB

After Optimization

8.4 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Giantscastlereservations.co.za main page is 8.5 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. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Images take 8.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 52.8 kB

  • Original 62.4 kB
  • After minification 56.0 kB
  • After compression 9.6 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 52.8 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 99.0 kB

  • Original 8.2 MB
  • After minification 8.1 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. Giants Castle Reservations images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 2.6 kB

  • Original 198.5 kB
  • After minification 198.5 kB
  • After compression 195.9 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

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 61.9 kB
  • After minification 61.9 kB
  • After compression 61.9 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. Giantscastlereservations.co.za has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 11 (10%)

Requests Now

108

After Optimization

97

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 108 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Giants Castle Reservations. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 9 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

giantscastlereservations.co.za

giantscastlereservations.co.za

570 ms

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70 ms

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56 ms

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65 ms

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58 ms

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95 ms

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1367 ms

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1455 ms

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1367 ms

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1459 ms

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1366 ms

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1459 ms

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1464 ms

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1559 ms

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1570 ms

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1670 ms

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1362 ms

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9 ms

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83 ms

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127 ms

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335 ms

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1187 ms

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300 ms

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1024 ms

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1024 ms

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1126 ms

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1105 ms

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1097 ms

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1103 ms

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1099 ms

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186 ms

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191 ms

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1101 ms

id

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113 ms

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1043 ms

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195 ms

Create

Create

180 ms

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1001 ms

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836 ms

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649 ms

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748 ms

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753 ms

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751 ms

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753 ms

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753 ms

GenerateIT

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15 ms

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633 ms

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735 ms

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734 ms

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654 ms

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648 ms

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648 ms

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646 ms

Accessibility Review

giantscastlereservations.co.za accessibility score

56

Accessibility Issues

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

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

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

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

Lists do not contain only <li> elements and script supporting elements (<script> and <template>).

Best Practices

giantscastlereservations.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

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

giantscastlereservations.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 Giantscastlereservations.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 Giantscastlereservations.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

giantscastlereservations.co.za

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Giants Castle Reservations. 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: