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Report Summary

  • 36

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    56% of other websites

  • 57

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 24% of websites

  • 50

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    18% of websites

  • 58

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    20% of websites

mountainviewcapetown.com

Mountain View Guest House - Luxury B&B Guesthouse accommodation for business and leisure in Newlands, Cape Town's Southern Suburbs - guesthouse bed an...

Page Load Speed

24 sec in total

First Response

1.1 sec

Resources Loaded

22.6 sec

Page Rendered

288 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Mountainviewcapetown.com page load time and found that the first response time was 1.1 sec and then it took 22.9 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 95% of websites can load faster. Unfortunately, there was 1 request timeout, which can generally increase the web page load time, as the browser stays idle while waiting for website response.

Performance Metrics

mountainviewcapetown.com performance score

36

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.1 s

3/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.5 s

4/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value10.7 s

7/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value530 ms

55/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value10.1 s

26/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

mountainviewcapetown.com

1075 ms

www.mountainviewcapetown.com

1063 ms

jquery-1.11.1.min.js

744 ms

jquery.validationEngine.js

1101 ms

jquery.validationEngine-en.js

739 ms

Our browser made a total of 40 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 68% of them (27 requests) were addressed to the original Mountainviewcapetown.com, 15% (6 requests) were made to Southafricanweather.co.za and 5% (2 requests) were made to Ittconnect.co.za. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (19.6 sec) relates to the external source Tripadvisor.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 53.7 kB (10%)

Content Size

562.9 kB

After Optimization

509.2 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Mountainviewcapetown.com main page is 562.9 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. 30% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 379.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 26.6 kB

  • Original 32.9 kB
  • After minification 25.7 kB
  • After compression 6.3 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 7.1 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 26.6 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 15.9 kB

  • Original 379.2 kB
  • After minification 363.3 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. Mountain View Cape Town images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-7%

Potential reduce by 10.7 kB

  • Original 146.7 kB
  • After minification 146.7 kB
  • After compression 136.1 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-14%

Potential reduce by 557 B

  • Original 4.1 kB
  • After minification 4.1 kB
  • After compression 3.5 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. Mountainviewcapetown.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 557 B or 14% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 7 (21%)

Requests Now

33

After Optimization

26

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 33 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Mountain View Cape Town. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 8 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

mountainviewcapetown.com

mountainviewcapetown.com

1075 ms

www.mountainviewcapetown.com

www.mountainviewcapetown.com

1063 ms

jquery-1.11.1.min.js

jquery-1.11.1.min.js

744 ms

jquery.validationEngine.js

jquery.validationEngine.js

1101 ms

jquery.validationEngine-en.js

jquery.validationEngine-en.js

739 ms

zebra_datepicker.js

zebra_datepicker.js

767 ms

core.js

core.js

764 ms

styles.css

styles.css

769 ms

AC_RunActiveContent.js

AC_RunActiveContent.js

1110 ms

wejs

wejs

19609 ms

embed

embed

256 ms

hosted_by.gif

hosted_by.gif

1082 ms

DSC03326.jpg

DSC03326.jpg

740 ms

homenew.jpg

homenew.jpg

372 ms

gen1_sm.jpg

gen1_sm.jpg

738 ms

goose2_sm.jpg

goose2_sm.jpg

387 ms

turtle1_sm.jpg

turtle1_sm.jpg

385 ms

newpic2.jpg

newpic2.jpg

1140 ms

frontview_med.jpg

frontview_med.jpg

738 ms

patio_med.jpg

patio_med.jpg

769 ms

1.jpg

1.jpg

771 ms

4.jpg

4.jpg

1108 ms

3.jpg

3.jpg

1106 ms

newpic.jpg

newpic.jpg

1843 ms

1.png

1.png

1152 ms

refresh.png

refresh.png

1154 ms

sclogo.jpg

sclogo.jpg

1475 ms

CapeStay_logo.jpg

CapeStay_logo.jpg

1476 ms

bookSure.jpg

bookSure.jpg

1521 ms

free_data.asp

free_data.asp

510 ms

js

js

67 ms

free_data.asp

free_data.asp

1011 ms

hosted_by.gif

hosted_by.gif

1533 ms

1_0_.htm

1_0_.htm

256 ms

ssheet.css

ssheet.css

253 ms

1.gif

1.gif

246 ms

1.gif

1.gif

258 ms

ga.js

ga.js

20 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

11 ms

calendar.png

calendar.png

731 ms

Accessibility Review

mountainviewcapetown.com accessibility score

57

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

Best Practices

mountainviewcapetown.com best practices score

50

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

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

mountainviewcapetown.com SEO score

58

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

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    ISO-8859-1

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Mountainviewcapetown.com 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 Mountainviewcapetown.com main page’s claimed encoding is iso-8859-1. 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

mountainviewcapetown.com

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Mountain View Cape Town. 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: