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Report Summary

  • 49

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    67% of other websites

  • 96

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 88% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 81

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    43% of websites

valleylodge.co.za

Valley Lodge & Spa Magaliesburg — 4-Star Country Hotel, Spa & Weddings

Page Load Speed

14.9 sec in total

First Response

3 sec

Resources Loaded

10.8 sec

Page Rendered

1.1 sec

valleylodge.co.za screenshot

About Website

Click here to check amazing Valley Lodge content for South Africa. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about valleylodge.co.za

Valley Lodge & Spa is a luxurious 4-star country retreat nestled in the heart of Magaliesburg, South Africa. Surrounded by tranquil rivers, lush gardens, and scenic mountain views, the lodge offers el...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Valleylodge.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 3 sec and then it took 11.9 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

valleylodge.co.za performance score

49

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value8.2 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value11.1 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value15.5 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.015

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value8.5 s

38/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

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3027 ms

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605 ms

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896 ms

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920 ms

Our browser made a total of 158 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 55% of them (87 requests) were addressed to the original Valleylodge.co.za, 11% (17 requests) were made to Widget.hijiffy.com and 9% (15 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (3.5 sec) belongs to the original domain Valleylodge.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.0 MB (10%)

Content Size

10.1 MB

After Optimization

9.1 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Valleylodge.co.za main page is 10.1 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. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Images take 8.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-86%

Potential reduce by 167.3 kB

  • Original 195.4 kB
  • After minification 189.4 kB
  • After compression 28.2 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 167.3 kB or 86% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 251.8 kB

  • Original 8.0 MB
  • After minification 7.8 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. Valley Lodge images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-21%

Potential reduce by 293.1 kB

  • Original 1.4 MB
  • After minification 1.4 MB
  • After compression 1.1 MB

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 293.1 kB or 21% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-62%

Potential reduce by 325.9 kB

  • Original 524.0 kB
  • After minification 523.2 kB
  • After compression 198.1 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. Valleylodge.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 325.9 kB or 62% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 81 (60%)

Requests Now

136

After Optimization

55

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 136 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Valley Lodge. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 58 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 25 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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Accessibility Review

valleylodge.co.za accessibility score

96

Accessibility Issues

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

valleylodge.co.za best practices score

75

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

valleylodge.co.za SEO score

81

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

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 Valleylodge.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 Valleylodge.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

valleylodge.co.za

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