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Report Summary

  • 12

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    25% of other websites

  • 82

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 54% of websites

  • 0

    Best Practices

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    75% of websites

lionsvalley.co.za

Lions Valley Lodge | Private Game Reserve | Africa's Paradise

Page Load Speed

17.4 sec in total

First Response

2 sec

Resources Loaded

14.8 sec

Page Rendered

640 ms

lionsvalley.co.za screenshot

About Website

Welcome to lionsvalley.co.za homepage info - get ready to check Lions Valley best content right away, or after learning these important things about lionsvalley.co.za

Nestled in the heart of the Nambiti Private Game Reserve just outside Ladysmith, Lions Valley Lodge is one of KwaZulu-Natal’s best-kept secrets.

Visit lionsvalley.co.za

Key Findings

We analyzed Lionsvalley.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 2 sec and then it took 15.4 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

lionsvalley.co.za performance score

12

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value9.8 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value24.5 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value21.8 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,120 ms

2/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.146

77/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value23.2 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.lionsvalley.co.za

2028 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

539 ms

gtranslate-style24.css

561 ms

styles.css

562 ms

jquery-ui.min.css

18 ms

Our browser made a total of 197 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 81% of them (160 requests) were addressed to the original Lionsvalley.co.za, 2% (4 requests) were made to Maps.google.com and 2% (4 requests) were made to Translate.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (3.8 sec) belongs to the original domain Lionsvalley.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 2.0 MB (39%)

Content Size

5.1 MB

After Optimization

3.1 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Lionsvalley.co.za main page is 5.1 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. 75% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Images take 2.5 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 138.1 kB

  • Original 176.9 kB
  • After minification 169.9 kB
  • After compression 38.8 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 138.1 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 66.5 kB

  • Original 2.5 MB
  • After minification 2.5 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. Lions Valley images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-68%

Potential reduce by 978.6 kB

  • Original 1.4 MB
  • After minification 1.3 MB
  • After compression 457.8 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 978.6 kB or 68% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 806.7 kB

  • Original 927.9 kB
  • After minification 829.4 kB
  • After compression 121.2 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. Lionsvalley.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 806.7 kB or 87% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 99 (51%)

Requests Now

194

After Optimization

95

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 194 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Lions Valley. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 60 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 34 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

www.lionsvalley.co.za

www.lionsvalley.co.za

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Accessibility Review

lionsvalley.co.za accessibility score

82

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 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.

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

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

List items (<li>) are not contained within <ul> or <ol> parent elements.

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.

SEO Factors

lionsvalley.co.za SEO score

92

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 Lionsvalley.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 Lionsvalley.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

lionsvalley.co.za

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