Report Summary

  • 33

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    53% of other websites

  • 96

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 89% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 81

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    43% of websites

horizoncottages.co.za

Affordable Cape Town Self Catering Accommodation in Noordhoek, Cape Town

Page Load Speed

5.2 sec in total

First Response

600 ms

Resources Loaded

4.1 sec

Page Rendered

433 ms

horizoncottages.co.za screenshot

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Key Findings

We analyzed Horizoncottages.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 600 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 70% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

horizoncottages.co.za performance score

33

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.7 s

29/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value10.8 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.1 s

45/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value700 ms

42/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.155

74/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value10.6 s

23/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

horizoncottages.co.za

600 ms

www.horizoncottages.co.za

684 ms

responsiveslides.css

242 ms

layout.css

485 ms

demo.css

484 ms

Our browser made a total of 69 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 43% of them (30 requests) were addressed to the original Horizoncottages.co.za, 17% (12 requests) were made to Maps.googleapis.com and 9% (6 requests) were made to Google.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.1 sec) belongs to the original domain Horizoncottages.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 651.2 kB (35%)

Content Size

1.9 MB

After Optimization

1.2 MB

In fact, the total size of Horizoncottages.co.za main page is 1.9 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. 50% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 953.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 21.7 kB

  • Original 28.4 kB
  • After minification 22.2 kB
  • After compression 6.7 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 6.2 kB, which is 22% 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 21.7 kB or 76% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 14.3 kB

  • Original 953.3 kB
  • After minification 939.0 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. Horizoncottages images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-69%

Potential reduce by 571.6 kB

  • Original 834.4 kB
  • After minification 833.9 kB
  • After compression 262.8 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 571.6 kB or 69% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 43.6 kB

  • Original 55.0 kB
  • After minification 45.7 kB
  • After compression 11.5 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. Horizoncottages.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 43.6 kB or 79% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 28 (43%)

Requests Now

65

After Optimization

37

The browser has sent 65 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Horizoncottages. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 22 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 8 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

horizoncottages.co.za accessibility score

96

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

horizoncottages.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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

horizoncottages.co.za SEO score

81

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

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

    US-ASCII

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Horizoncottages.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 Horizoncottages.co.za main page’s claimed encoding is us-ascii. 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

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