Report Summary

  • 53

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    71% of other websites

  • 75

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 42% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 85

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    56% of websites

holidaycars.co.za

Holiday Cars » Always the best car rental deals

Page Load Speed

2.7 sec in total

First Response

197 ms

Resources Loaded

2.1 sec

Page Rendered

370 ms

holidaycars.co.za screenshot

About Website

Visit holidaycars.co.za now to see the best up-to-date Holiday Cars content and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about holidaycars.co.za

HolidayCars.com compares 800+ rental car brands worldwide and always offers you the best price available.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Holidaycars.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 197 ms and then it took 2.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 45% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

holidaycars.co.za performance score

53

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.1 s

46/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.1 s

75/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.7 s

69/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,370 ms

16/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value9.1 s

33/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

holidaycars.co.za

197 ms

www.holidaycars.com

914 ms

comp.min.css

345 ms

cntnt.aspx

308 ms

jscomp_201602010950.js

516 ms

Our browser made a total of 31 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 3% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Holidaycars.co.za, 58% (18 requests) were made to Holidaycars.com and 6% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (914 ms) relates to the external source Holidaycars.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 535.1 kB (54%)

Content Size

996.2 kB

After Optimization

461.1 kB

In fact, the total size of Holidaycars.co.za main page is 996.2 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. 35% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 387.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 134.3 kB

  • Original 162.7 kB
  • After minification 144.3 kB
  • After compression 28.4 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 18.4 kB, which is 11% 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 134.3 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 2.0 kB

  • Original 290.9 kB
  • After minification 288.9 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. Holiday Cars images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-70%

Potential reduce by 269.5 kB

  • Original 387.5 kB
  • After minification 386.2 kB
  • After compression 118.0 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 269.5 kB or 70% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 129.2 kB

  • Original 155.1 kB
  • After minification 154.9 kB
  • After compression 25.9 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. Holidaycars.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 129.2 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 15 (58%)

Requests Now

26

After Optimization

11

The browser has sent 26 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Holiday Cars. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 11 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

holidaycars.co.za accessibility score

75

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.

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Some elements have a [tabindex] value greater than 0

Best Practices

holidaycars.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

holidaycars.co.za SEO score

85

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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 Holidaycars.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 Holidaycars.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

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