Report Summary

  • 34

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    54% of other websites

  • 68

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 33% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    95% of websites

ctic.co.za

Cape Town Information Centre

Page Load Speed

27.7 sec in total

First Response

13 sec

Resources Loaded

14.6 sec

Page Rendered

208 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Ctic.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 13 sec and then it took 14.8 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

ctic.co.za performance score

34

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value7.6 s

1/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value11.6 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value14.0 s

1/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value410 ms

66/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.129

82/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value11.3 s

19/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

ctic.co.za

12956 ms

k2.css

288 ms

system.css

210 ms

plugins.system.t3.base-bs3.less.legacy-grid.less.css

216 ms

font-awesome.css

309 ms

Our browser made a total of 80 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 68% of them (54 requests) were addressed to the original Ctic.co.za, 10% (8 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 5% (4 requests) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (13 sec) belongs to the original domain Ctic.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 926.7 kB (51%)

Content Size

1.8 MB

After Optimization

894.7 kB

In fact, the total size of Ctic.co.za main page is 1.8 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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 725.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-74%

Potential reduce by 25.2 kB

  • Original 34.2 kB
  • After minification 32.9 kB
  • After compression 9.1 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 25.2 kB or 74% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 39.7 kB

  • Original 624.5 kB
  • After minification 584.8 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. Ctic images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-67%

Potential reduce by 488.5 kB

  • Original 725.0 kB
  • After minification 679.0 kB
  • After compression 236.5 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 488.5 kB or 67% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 373.4 kB

  • Original 437.7 kB
  • After minification 357.2 kB
  • After compression 64.4 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. Ctic.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 373.4 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 47 (75%)

Requests Now

63

After Optimization

16

The browser has sent 63 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Ctic. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 20 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 29 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

ctic.co.za accessibility score

68

Accessibility Issues

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

Buttons do not have an accessible name

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

ctic.co.za best practices score

83

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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

ctic.co.za SEO score

100

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Ctic.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 Ctic.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

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