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Report Summary

  • 81

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    86% of other websites

  • 54

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 23% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 79

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    40% of websites

rijkscountryhouse.co.za

Tulbagh accommodation

Page Load Speed

21.7 sec in total

First Response

296 ms

Resources Loaded

21.2 sec

Page Rendered

226 ms

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About Website

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

Child friendly Tulbagh accommodation in the cape winelands. Ideal country getaway near Tulbagh, only 80 minutes from Cape Town.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Rijkscountryhouse.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 296 ms and then it took 21.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is an excellent result, as only a small number 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

rijkscountryhouse.co.za performance score

81

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.9 s

53/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.3 s

69/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.3 s

58/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value70 ms

99/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value4.5 s

82/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

rijkscountryhouse.co.za

296 ms

rijkscountryhouse.co.za

348 ms

modernizr-1.7.min.js

307 ms

jquery.min.js

50 ms

default.css

333 ms

Our browser made a total of 41 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 80% of them (33 requests) were addressed to the original Rijkscountryhouse.co.za, 5% (2 requests) were made to Code.jquery.com and 5% (2 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (19.8 sec) relates to the external source Tripadvisor.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 19.9 kB (3%)

Content Size

687.0 kB

After Optimization

667.1 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Rijkscountryhouse.co.za main page is 687.0 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. 25% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 633.4 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 10.4 kB

  • Original 13.8 kB
  • After minification 11.7 kB
  • After compression 3.4 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 2.1 kB, which is 15% 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 10.4 kB or 75% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 8.7 kB

  • Original 633.4 kB
  • After minification 624.6 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. Rijkscountryhouse images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 15 B

  • Original 33.8 kB
  • After minification 33.8 kB
  • After compression 33.8 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-13%

Potential reduce by 766 B

  • Original 6.0 kB
  • After minification 6.0 kB
  • After compression 5.3 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. Rijkscountryhouse.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 766 B or 13% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 21 (58%)

Requests Now

36

After Optimization

15

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 36 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Rijkscountryhouse. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 6 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 8 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

rijkscountryhouse.co.za

rijkscountryhouse.co.za

296 ms

rijkscountryhouse.co.za

rijkscountryhouse.co.za

348 ms

modernizr-1.7.min.js

modernizr-1.7.min.js

307 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

50 ms

default.css

default.css

333 ms

nivo-slider.css

nivo-slider.css

305 ms

main.css

main.css

344 ms

screen.css

screen.css

333 ms

home.css

home.css

336 ms

css

css

62 ms

booking-widget.css

booking-widget.css

330 ms

jquery-1.9.0.min.js

jquery-1.9.0.min.js

696 ms

jquery.nivo.slider.js

jquery.nivo.slider.js

596 ms

jquery-ui.css

jquery-ui.css

44 ms

jquery-ui.js

jquery-ui.js

50 ms

wejs

wejs

35 ms

rijks-logov2.gif

rijks-logov2.gif

311 ms

05.jpg

05.jpg

496 ms

01.jpg

01.jpg

543 ms

02.jpg

02.jpg

530 ms

03.jpg

03.jpg

826 ms

04.jpg

04.jpg

776 ms

bg_hatch_light.png

bg_hatch_light.png

631 ms

loading.gif

loading.gif

762 ms

weddings.jpg

weddings.jpg

924 ms

conferences.jpg

conferences.jpg

961 ms

restaurant.jpg

restaurant.jpg

1088 ms

contact_us.png

contact_us.png

1044 ms

fax.png

fax.png

1044 ms

email2.png

email2.png

1105 ms

tripadvisor.jpg

tripadvisor.jpg

1207 ms

button.png

button.png

1362 ms

tourism-grading.gif

tourism-grading.gif

1340 ms

bookings-guestreviews.jpg

bookings-guestreviews.jpg

1339 ms

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4UacrEBBsBhlBjvfkQjt71kZfyBzPgNG9hU4-6ql.woff

17 ms

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4UacrEBBsBhlBjvfkQjt71kZfyBzPgNGERI4-6ql.woff

20 ms

bg_hatch_white.png

bg_hatch_white.png

1013 ms

bg_hatch_slate.png

bg_hatch_slate.png

1049 ms

bg_hatch_heading.png

bg_hatch_heading.png

1142 ms

WidgetEmbed-certificateOfExcellence

WidgetEmbed-certificateOfExcellence

19840 ms

arrows.png

arrows.png

1227 ms

Accessibility Review

rijkscountryhouse.co.za accessibility score

54

Accessibility Issues

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

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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.

Best Practices

rijkscountryhouse.co.za best practices score

67

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

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

rijkscountryhouse.co.za SEO score

79

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

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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 Rijkscountryhouse.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 Rijkscountryhouse.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

rijkscountryhouse.co.za

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