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Report Summary

  • 45

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    64% of other websites

  • 92

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 80% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    19% of websites

  • 54

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    19% of websites

lch.co.za

Ladies Christian Old Age Home Cape Town | Assisted, Frail and Alzheimer Care

Page Load Speed

19.9 sec in total

First Response

5.6 sec

Resources Loaded

14 sec

Page Rendered

245 ms

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About Website

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The Ladies Christian Old Age Home has been an integral part of the City of Cape Town and its environs since 1876. It was founded out of a concern for elderly ladies who need care. We believe in respec...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Lch.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 5.6 sec and then it took 14.3 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

lch.co.za performance score

45

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.1 s

9/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.6 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value18.3 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value190 ms

90/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.038

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value11.2 s

20/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

lch.co.za

5643 ms

www.lch.co.za

5056 ms

style.css

1495 ms

jquery.fancybox-1.3.4.css

1064 ms

css

25 ms

Our browser made a total of 44 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 59% of them (26 requests) were addressed to the original Lch.co.za, 27% (12 requests) were made to Static.xx.fbcdn.net and 5% (2 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (5.6 sec) belongs to the original domain Lch.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 201.2 kB (26%)

Content Size

785.3 kB

After Optimization

584.2 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Lch.co.za main page is 785.3 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. 45% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 569.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 14.2 kB

  • Original 18.2 kB
  • After minification 17.2 kB
  • After compression 4.0 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 14.2 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 46.2 kB

  • Original 569.3 kB
  • After minification 523.1 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. Lch images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-67%

Potential reduce by 97.4 kB

  • Original 145.8 kB
  • After minification 145.0 kB
  • After compression 48.4 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 97.4 kB or 67% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 43.4 kB

  • Original 52.0 kB
  • After minification 39.8 kB
  • After compression 8.6 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. Lch.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 43.4 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 18 (46%)

Requests Now

39

After Optimization

21

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 39 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Lch. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 13 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 7 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

lch.co.za

lch.co.za

5643 ms

www.lch.co.za

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5056 ms

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25 ms

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1918 ms

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826 ms

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1022 ms

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634 ms

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Accessibility Review

lch.co.za accessibility score

92

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

lch.co.za best practices score

58

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

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

lch.co.za SEO score

54

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

High

robots.txt is not valid

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 Lch.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 Lch.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

lch.co.za

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