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Report Summary

  • 31

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    52% of other websites

  • 66

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 32% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    57% of websites

  • 95

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    91% of websites

hertz.co.za

Hertz Rent A Car | Quality Car Rental | Car Hire South Africa

Page Load Speed

5.1 sec in total

First Response

480 ms

Resources Loaded

4.4 sec

Page Rendered

183 ms

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About Website

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

Hertz Rent A Car South Africa offers premium car hire across Johannesburg, Cape Town and Durban. Quality bakkie and car rental you can afford.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Hertz.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 480 ms and then it took 4.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 65% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

hertz.co.za performance score

31

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.0 s

49/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.4 s

20/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.3 s

42/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,230 ms

6/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value19.4 s

2/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

hertz.co.za

480 ms

hertz.co.za

1596 ms

77985a4bdd09420a535821376988c1bef9458579.css

291 ms

js

43 ms

66fcb4993f3dd85799d6dabf56cc6dae0d2a9962.js

847 ms

Our browser made a total of 76 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 43% of them (33 requests) were addressed to the original Hertz.co.za, 7% (5 requests) were made to Maps.google.com and 5% (4 requests) were made to Vs57.tawk.to. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.6 sec) belongs to the original domain Hertz.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.1 MB (12%)

Content Size

9.1 MB

After Optimization

8.0 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Hertz.co.za main page is 9.1 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. 50% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 7.7 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 85.2 kB

  • Original 105.1 kB
  • After minification 94.8 kB
  • After compression 19.9 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. 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 85.2 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 88.9 kB

  • Original 7.7 MB
  • After minification 7.7 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. Hertz images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-67%

Potential reduce by 692.6 kB

  • Original 1.0 MB
  • After minification 1.0 MB
  • After compression 334.8 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 692.6 kB or 67% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-88%

Potential reduce by 230.9 kB

  • Original 263.5 kB
  • After minification 169.0 kB
  • After compression 32.6 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. Hertz.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 230.9 kB or 88% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 33 (49%)

Requests Now

67

After Optimization

34

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 67 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Hertz. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 21 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

hertz.co.za

hertz.co.za

480 ms

hertz.co.za

hertz.co.za

1596 ms

77985a4bdd09420a535821376988c1bef9458579.css

77985a4bdd09420a535821376988c1bef9458579.css

291 ms

js

js

43 ms

66fcb4993f3dd85799d6dabf56cc6dae0d2a9962.js

66fcb4993f3dd85799d6dabf56cc6dae0d2a9962.js

847 ms

conversion.js

conversion.js

34 ms

fbevents.js

fbevents.js

26 ms

ga.js

ga.js

276 ms

hertz-car-rental-logo.png

hertz-car-rental-logo.png

120 ms

loading.jpg

loading.jpg

630 ms

close.gif

close.gif

121 ms

cs_camp.jpg

cs_camp.jpg

984 ms

cs_valueadds.jpg

cs_valueadds.jpg

546 ms

cs_coach.jpg

cs_coach.jpg

994 ms

cs_hero.jpg

cs_hero.jpg

1158 ms

cs_30plus.jpg

cs_30plus.jpg

1075 ms

cs_fpo.jpg

cs_fpo.jpg

718 ms

cs_gold.jpg

cs_gold.jpg

1347 ms

more_info.jpg

more_info.jpg

894 ms

cal_image.gif

cal_image.gif

982 ms

throbber.gif

throbber.gif

1071 ms

300x250_gold.jpg

300x250_gold.jpg

1143 ms

300x250_lanseria.jpg

300x250_lanseria.jpg

1161 ms

300x250_chauffeur.jpg

300x250_chauffeur.jpg

1240 ms

300x250_hero.jpg

300x250_hero.jpg

1245 ms

facebook_sm.jpg

facebook_sm.jpg

1301 ms

twitter_sm.jpg

twitter_sm.jpg

1325 ms

instagram_sm.jpg

instagram_sm.jpg

1329 ms

thermeon_logo_s.gif

thermeon_logo_s.gif

1327 ms

left_angle.gif

left_angle.gif

1339 ms

right_angle.gif

right_angle.gif

1377 ms

sprite_Miscellaneous.gif

sprite_Miscellaneous.gif

1395 ms

sprite_CenteredGradients.gif

sprite_CenteredGradients.gif

1395 ms

arrow_updown.gif

arrow_updown.gif

1399 ms

btn_ylw_small_lft.gif

btn_ylw_small_lft.gif

1406 ms

btn_bg_ylw.gif

btn_bg_ylw.gif

1417 ms

btn_ylw_small_rgt.gif

btn_ylw_small_rgt.gif

1441 ms

identity.js

identity.js

8 ms

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71 ms

all.js

all.js

74 ms

widgets.js

widgets.js

104 ms

159 ms

uwt.js

uwt.js

250 ms

default

default

188 ms

common.js

common.js

105 ms

util.js

util.js

126 ms

geocoder.js

geocoder.js

151 ms

217 ms

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30 ms

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147 ms

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infowindow.js

110 ms

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71 ms

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__utm.gif

48 ms

info.json

info.json

138 ms

icons.png

icons.png

59 ms

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134 ms

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53 ms

emojione.min.js

emojione.min.js

69 ms

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233 ms

ajax-loader.gif

ajax-loader.gif

57 ms

adsct

adsct

137 ms

collect

collect

112 ms

ga-audiences

ga-audiences

13 ms

ajax-loader-3.gif

ajax-loader-3.gif

22 ms

151 ms

jot

jot

70 ms

47 ms

32 ms

v3

v3

71 ms

206 ms

adsct

adsct

79 ms

like.php

like.php

44 ms

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27 ms

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19 ms

Accessibility Review

hertz.co.za accessibility score

66

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

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

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

[id] attributes on active, focusable elements are not unique

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

hertz.co.za 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

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

hertz.co.za SEO score

95

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

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Hertz.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 Hertz.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

hertz.co.za

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