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Report Summary

  • 62

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    76% of other websites

  • 90

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 74% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 90

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    68% of websites

welgelegen.co.za

Boutique Cape Town Accommodation | Welgelegen Guest House

Page Load Speed

9.9 sec in total

First Response

2.2 sec

Resources Loaded

7.3 sec

Page Rendered

378 ms

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About Website

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

Welgelegen is a Victorian-style Boutique Cape Town Guest House that offers luxury & excellent accommodation in Cape Town. Located near many attractions.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Welgelegen.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 2.2 sec and then it took 7.7 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

welgelegen.co.za performance score

62

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.9 s

10/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.9 s

28/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.2 s

20/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value90 ms

99/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value5.1 s

76/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

welgelegen.co.za

2239 ms

welgelegen-house-by-return-africa.png

331 ms

Front-Courtyard.jpg

1946 ms

Lounge.jpg

2534 ms

Courtyard-plunge-pool.jpg

2872 ms

Our browser made a total of 11 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 82% of them (9 requests) were addressed to the original Welgelegen.co.za, 18% (2 requests) were made to Static.tacdn.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (3.6 sec) belongs to the original domain Welgelegen.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 165.1 kB (5%)

Content Size

3.1 MB

After Optimization

3.0 MB

  • HTML
  • Images

In fact, the total size of Welgelegen.co.za main page is 3.1 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 10% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 3.0 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 129.6 kB

  • Original 165.1 kB
  • After minification 164.8 kB
  • After compression 35.6 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 129.6 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 35.5 kB

  • Original 3.0 MB
  • After minification 2.9 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. Welgelegen images are well optimized though.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

10

After Optimization

10

  • Images

The browser has sent 10 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Welgelegen. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Network Requests Diagram

welgelegen.co.za

welgelegen.co.za

2239 ms

welgelegen-house-by-return-africa.png

welgelegen-house-by-return-africa.png

331 ms

Front-Courtyard.jpg

Front-Courtyard.jpg

1946 ms

Lounge.jpg

Lounge.jpg

2534 ms

Courtyard-plunge-pool.jpg

Courtyard-plunge-pool.jpg

2872 ms

Superior-room-9.jpg

Superior-room-9.jpg

2557 ms

Courtyard-reading.jpg

Courtyard-reading.jpg

3568 ms

Page-transition-icon.png

Page-transition-icon.png

970 ms

Front-Entrance-1.jpg

Front-Entrance-1.jpg

3572 ms

Tripadvisor_lockup_vertical.svg

Tripadvisor_lockup_vertical.svg

33 ms

tchotel_2024_LL.png

tchotel_2024_LL.png

35 ms

Accessibility Review

welgelegen.co.za accessibility score

90

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

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

welgelegen.co.za best practices score

92

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

welgelegen.co.za SEO score

90

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

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 Welgelegen.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 Welgelegen.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

welgelegen.co.za

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of Welgelegen. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: