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Report Summary

  • 12

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    25% of other websites

  • 97

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 92% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    36% of websites

  • 90

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    68% of websites

livethejourney.co.za

Life Enriching Tours, Treks, and Adventures. | Live The Journey

Page Load Speed

3.8 sec in total

First Response

441 ms

Resources Loaded

2.7 sec

Page Rendered

640 ms

livethejourney.co.za screenshot

About Website

Click here to check amazing Live The Journey content. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about livethejourney.co.za

Our passion is to create magical tours, tailor-made packages and adventures to any global destination. These experiences range from bespoke itineraries and multi-day hikes to cross country self-drives...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Livethejourney.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 441 ms and then it took 3.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 55% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

livethejourney.co.za performance score

12

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.2 s

43/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value20.4 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value6.8 s

35/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value5,050 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.385

27/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value16.6 s

5/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

livethejourney.co.za

441 ms

www.livethejourney.co.za

414 ms

css

28 ms

4bc9638ed93e.css

533 ms

modernizr-2.7.1.min.js

229 ms

Our browser made a total of 48 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 81% of them (39 requests) were addressed to the original Livethejourney.co.za, 10% (5 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 4% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.1 sec) belongs to the original domain Livethejourney.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 307.2 kB (11%)

Content Size

2.7 MB

After Optimization

2.4 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Livethejourney.co.za main page is 2.7 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. 65% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 2.3 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 27.7 kB

  • Original 33.8 kB
  • After minification 24.6 kB
  • After compression 6.1 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 9.2 kB, which is 27% 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 27.7 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 19.4 kB

  • Original 2.3 MB
  • After minification 2.3 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. Live The Journey images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-37%

Potential reduce by 32.0 kB

  • Original 85.9 kB
  • After minification 85.9 kB
  • After compression 53.9 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 32.0 kB or 37% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-88%

Potential reduce by 228.1 kB

  • Original 260.0 kB
  • After minification 208.8 kB
  • After compression 31.8 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. Livethejourney.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 228.1 kB or 88% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 3 (8%)

Requests Now

40

After Optimization

37

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 40 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Live The Journey. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 4 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

livethejourney.co.za

livethejourney.co.za

441 ms

www.livethejourney.co.za

www.livethejourney.co.za

414 ms

css

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28 ms

4bc9638ed93e.css

4bc9638ed93e.css

533 ms

modernizr-2.7.1.min.js

modernizr-2.7.1.min.js

229 ms

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jquery.min.js

7 ms

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405 ms

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386 ms

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160 ms

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159 ms

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529 ms

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567 ms

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408 ms

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527 ms

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407 ms

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523 ms

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640 ms

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480 ms

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561 ms

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600 ms

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594 ms

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625 ms

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656 ms

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664 ms

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661 ms

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698 ms

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704 ms

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701 ms

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723 ms

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729 ms

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731 ms

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766 ms

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778 ms

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779 ms

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802 ms

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76 ms

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670 ms

analytics.js

analytics.js

96 ms

slide-nav.png

slide-nav.png

499 ms

nav.svg

nav.svg

517 ms

collect

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24 ms

Accessibility Review

livethejourney.co.za accessibility score

97

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.

Best Practices

livethejourney.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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

livethejourney.co.za SEO score

90

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

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Livethejourney.co.za can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Livethejourney.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

livethejourney.co.za

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Live The Journey. 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: