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Report Summary

  • 12

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    25% of other websites

  • 83

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 54% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    94% of websites

grahamstown.co.za

Makana Tourism - Grahamstown - Alicedale - Riebeek East - Salem - Seven Fountains - Sidbury

Page Load Speed

11.8 sec in total

First Response

818 ms

Resources Loaded

10.7 sec

Page Rendered

372 ms

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About Website

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

Makhanda and the nearby towns of Alicedale, Riebeek East, Fort Brown, Salem, Seven Fountains and Sidbury make up the Makana municipality. Our neighbours in Bathurst, Kenton and Port Alfred are also in...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Grahamstown.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 818 ms and then it took 11 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 90% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

grahamstown.co.za performance score

12

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.6 s

32/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value46.2 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value13.8 s

1/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value990 ms

27/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.847

4/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value17.5 s

4/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

grahamstown.co.za

818 ms

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2231 ms

js

48 ms

css

36 ms

bootstrap.min.css

1047 ms

Our browser made a total of 150 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 37% of them (56 requests) were addressed to the original Grahamstown.co.za, 18% (27 requests) were made to Tourismportals.co.za and 17% (26 requests) were made to Zawebsdata.co.za. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (3.4 sec) relates to the external source Tourismportals.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 872.3 kB (9%)

Content Size

9.9 MB

After Optimization

9.0 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Grahamstown.co.za main page is 9.9 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. 75% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Images take 8.5 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 76.8 kB

  • Original 90.9 kB
  • After minification 67.3 kB
  • After compression 14.1 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 23.6 kB, which is 26% 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 76.8 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 2.2 kB

  • Original 8.5 MB
  • After minification 8.5 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. Grahamstown images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-57%

Potential reduce by 622.5 kB

  • Original 1.1 MB
  • After minification 1.1 MB
  • After compression 474.9 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 622.5 kB or 57% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 170.9 kB

  • Original 211.2 kB
  • After minification 211.1 kB
  • After compression 40.4 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. Grahamstown.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 170.9 kB or 81% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 79 (66%)

Requests Now

119

After Optimization

40

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 119 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Grahamstown. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 61 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 20 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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Accessibility Review

grahamstown.co.za accessibility score

83

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 input fields do not have accessible names

High

ARIA toggle fields do not have accessible names

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.

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

grahamstown.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

SEO Factors

grahamstown.co.za SEO score

100

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

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 Grahamstown.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 Grahamstown.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

grahamstown.co.za

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