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Report Summary

  • 74

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    83% of other websites

  • 71

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 37% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    19% of websites

  • 58

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    20% of websites

golfescapes.co.za

Golf tours and holiday Specials to top golf courses in South Africa with accommodation and transfers

Page Load Speed

3.8 sec in total

First Response

834 ms

Resources Loaded

2.7 sec

Page Rendered

212 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Golfescapes.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 834 ms and then it took 2.9 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

golfescapes.co.za performance score

74

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.9 s

54/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.6 s

34/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.1 s

62/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value50 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value3.7 s

91/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

golfescapes.co.za

834 ms

escapes.css

263 ms

analytics.js

34 ms

golfescape-logo.gif

533 ms

banner_where.gif

789 ms

Our browser made a total of 25 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 88% of them (22 requests) were addressed to the original Golfescapes.co.za, 8% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com and 4% (1 request) were made to Badge.facebook.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.6 sec) belongs to the original domain Golfescapes.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 57.9 kB (22%)

Content Size

263.0 kB

After Optimization

205.1 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Golfescapes.co.za main page is 263.0 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. 15% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 179.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 22.2 kB

  • Original 26.1 kB
  • After minification 18.2 kB
  • After compression 3.9 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 7.9 kB, which is 30% 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 22.2 kB or 85% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 654 B

  • Original 179.9 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. Golf Escapes images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-60%

Potential reduce by 32.0 kB

  • Original 52.9 kB
  • After minification 52.9 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 32.0 kB or 60% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 3.0 kB

  • Original 4.1 kB
  • After minification 3.3 kB
  • After compression 1.0 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. Golfescapes.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 3.0 kB or 75% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

24

After Optimization

24

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 24 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Golf Escapes. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Network Requests Diagram

golfescapes.co.za

golfescapes.co.za

834 ms

escapes.css

escapes.css

263 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

34 ms

golfescape-logo.gif

golfescape-logo.gif

533 ms

banner_where.gif

banner_where.gif

789 ms

left_head_subscribe.gif

left_head_subscribe.gif

533 ms

left_lt_spacer.gif

left_lt_spacer.gif

524 ms

left_rt_spacer.gif

left_rt_spacer.gif

524 ms

left_bottom.gif

left_bottom.gif

531 ms

advert-sports.jpg

advert-sports.jpg

796 ms

springbok_tent.jpg

springbok_tent.jpg

816 ms

advert-conference.jpg

advert-conference.jpg

795 ms

th-fancourt-02.jpg

th-fancourt-02.jpg

794 ms

th-greenwood-01.jpg

th-greenwood-01.jpg

802 ms

th-olivers.jpg

th-olivers.jpg

1071 ms

th-nedbank-01.jpg

th-nedbank-01.jpg

1061 ms

th-nedbank-02.jpg

th-nedbank-02.jpg

1058 ms

th-kleine-zalze.jpg

th-kleine-zalze.jpg

1064 ms

th-royal-swazi.jpg

th-royal-swazi.jpg

1070 ms

th-wild-coast.jpg

th-wild-coast.jpg

1080 ms

th-wild-coast-02.jpg

th-wild-coast-02.jpg

1322 ms

sun_palace.jpg

sun_palace.jpg

1322 ms

soweto-towers-02.jpg

soweto-towers-02.jpg

1586 ms

collect

collect

11 ms

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209 ms

Accessibility Review

golfescapes.co.za accessibility score

71

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

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

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

golfescapes.co.za best practices score

58

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

General

Impact

Issue

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

golfescapes.co.za SEO score

58

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

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 Golfescapes.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 Golfescapes.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

golfescapes.co.za

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Golf Escapes. 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: