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Report Summary

  • 27

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    46% of other websites

  • 95

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 86% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    74% of websites

sailingacademy.co.za

Learn to Sail Dinghy Multihull & Keelboat Sailing Academy

Page Load Speed

8.8 sec in total

First Response

1.6 sec

Resources Loaded

6.6 sec

Page Rendered

580 ms

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About Website

Visit sailingacademy.co.za now to see the best up-to-date Sailing Academy content and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about sailingacademy.co.za

The SA Sailing Academy provides accredited learn to sail & sail to compete sailing lessons on dinghies, multihulls & keelboats at Gordons Bay & at Theewater.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Sailingacademy.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 1.6 sec and then it took 7.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 85% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

sailingacademy.co.za performance score

27

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.4 s

7/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.4 s

20/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value11.3 s

5/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value770 ms

38/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.225

55/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value12.3 s

15/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

sailingacademy.co.za

1634 ms

module.min.css

260 ms

theme.9.css

784 ms

module.min.css

1471 ms

jquery.min.js

1022 ms

Our browser made a total of 43 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 95% of them (41 requests) were addressed to the original Sailingacademy.co.za, 2% (1 request) were made to Google.com and 2% (1 request) were made to Gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.4 sec) belongs to the original domain Sailingacademy.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 112.2 kB (5%)

Content Size

2.1 MB

After Optimization

2.0 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Sailingacademy.co.za main page is 2.1 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. 35% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.6 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-88%

Potential reduce by 77.2 kB

  • Original 88.0 kB
  • After minification 77.0 kB
  • After compression 10.8 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 11.0 kB, which is 13% 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 77.2 kB or 88% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 32.2 kB

  • Original 1.6 MB
  • After minification 1.6 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. Sailing Academy images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 2.1 kB

  • Original 332.8 kB
  • After minification 332.8 kB
  • After compression 330.8 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

-1%

Potential reduce by 772 B

  • Original 54.5 kB
  • After minification 54.5 kB
  • After compression 53.7 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. Sailingacademy.co.za has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 11 (29%)

Requests Now

38

After Optimization

27

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 38 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Sailing Academy. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 12 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

sailingacademy.co.za

sailingacademy.co.za

1634 ms

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260 ms

theme.9.css

theme.9.css

784 ms

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1471 ms

jquery.min.js

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1022 ms

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763 ms

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762 ms

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767 ms

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768 ms

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33 ms

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1020 ms

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1026 ms

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1465 ms

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20 ms

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265 ms

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761 ms

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261 ms

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760 ms

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785 ms

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1018 ms

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1022 ms

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1304 ms

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1538 ms

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1548 ms

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Accessibility Review

sailingacademy.co.za accessibility score

95

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

sailingacademy.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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

sailingacademy.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

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 Sailingacademy.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 Sailingacademy.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

sailingacademy.co.za

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