Report Summary

  • 26

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    46% of other websites

  • 68

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 33% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 97

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    91% of websites

grootbos.com

Grootbos Private Nature Reserve™ | Official Website

Page Load Speed

7.8 sec in total

First Response

754 ms

Resources Loaded

6.8 sec

Page Rendered

273 ms

grootbos.com screenshot

About Website

Welcome to grootbos.com homepage info - get ready to check Grootbos best content for South Africa right away, or after learning these important things about grootbos.com

Official Website – Grootbos Private Nature Reserve™ is‎ an award-winning five-star eco-paradise. Experience breathtaking views of the panoramic ocean and fynbos from every angle.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Grootbos.com page load time and found that the first response time was 754 ms and then it took 7 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

grootbos.com performance score

26

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.6 s

13/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value12.8 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value12.0 s

4/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,020 ms

26/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.044

99/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value12.1 s

16/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

grootbos.com

754 ms

www.grootbos.com

755 ms

home

596 ms

otw1htx.js

145 ms

global.css

530 ms

Our browser made a total of 119 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 71% of them (84 requests) were addressed to the original Grootbos.com, 11% (13 requests) were made to and 3% (4 requests) were made to Grootbosdev.co.za. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.7 sec) belongs to the original domain Grootbos.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 942.5 kB (52%)

Content Size

1.8 MB

After Optimization

873.8 kB

In fact, the total size of Grootbos.com main page is 1.8 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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 896.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 162.4 kB

  • Original 207.9 kB
  • After minification 193.0 kB
  • After compression 45.5 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 162.4 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-9%

Potential reduce by 54.5 kB

  • Original 601.2 kB
  • After minification 546.7 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. Grootbos images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-70%

Potential reduce by 627.7 kB

  • Original 896.7 kB
  • After minification 828.6 kB
  • After compression 269.1 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 627.7 kB or 70% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-89%

Potential reduce by 97.9 kB

  • Original 110.4 kB
  • After minification 72.9 kB
  • After compression 12.5 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. Grootbos.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 97.9 kB or 89% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 44 (45%)

Requests Now

98

After Optimization

54

The browser has sent 98 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Grootbos. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 23 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 18 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

grootbos.com accessibility score

68

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

High

ARIA input fields do not have accessible names

High

Elements with an ARIA [role] that require children to contain a specific [role] are missing some or all of those required children.

High

[aria-*] attributes do not have valid values

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

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

Links do not have a discernible name

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

grootbos.com best practices score

83

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

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

grootbos.com SEO score

97

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 Grootbos.com 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 Grootbos.com 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

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