Report Summary

  • 27

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    47% of other websites

  • 78

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 46% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 70

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    30% of websites

gcis.gov.za

Home | Government Communication and Information System (GCIS)

Page Load Speed

12.6 sec in total

First Response

1.5 sec

Resources Loaded

10.7 sec

Page Rendered

310 ms

gcis.gov.za screenshot

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Key Findings

We analyzed Gcis.gov.za page load time and found that the first response time was 1.5 sec and then it took 11 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

gcis.gov.za performance score

27

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value8.0 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.0 s

3/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value13.9 s

1/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value820 ms

36/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.036

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value15.9 s

6/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

gcis.gov.za

1543 ms

jquery-latest.js

9 ms

css_xE-rWrJf-fncB6ztZfd2huxqgxu4WO-qwma6Xer30m4.css

4441 ms

css_lahMbjn3rWt3RobuikNT5RMv06noeO3s7uMQ4PuFkE0.css

6661 ms

css_fPwOd97AZ9qfYYI18gu3BjQ4Y66JSIfr-cK4EGWFZvA.css

6644 ms

Our browser made a total of 55 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 73% of them (40 requests) were addressed to the original Gcis.gov.za, 5% (3 requests) were made to Platform.twitter.com and 5% (3 requests) were made to S.ytimg.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (7.7 sec) belongs to the original domain Gcis.gov.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 721.8 kB (62%)

Content Size

1.2 MB

After Optimization

450.5 kB

In fact, the total size of Gcis.gov.za main page is 1.2 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. 50% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 562.1 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-76%

Potential reduce by 34.0 kB

  • Original 44.5 kB
  • After minification 42.7 kB
  • After compression 10.5 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 34.0 kB or 76% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-10%

Potential reduce by 26.2 kB

  • Original 249.4 kB
  • After minification 223.3 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. GCIS Gov images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-72%

Potential reduce by 402.7 kB

  • Original 562.1 kB
  • After minification 466.2 kB
  • After compression 159.4 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 402.7 kB or 72% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 259.0 kB

  • Original 316.3 kB
  • After minification 314.7 kB
  • After compression 57.3 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. Gcis.gov.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 259.0 kB or 82% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 25 (49%)

Requests Now

51

After Optimization

26

The browser has sent 51 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of GCIS Gov. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 16 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

gcis.gov.za accessibility score

78

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

High

<input type="image"> elements do not have [alt] text

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

gcis.gov.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

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

gcis.gov.za SEO score

70

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 Gcis.gov.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 Gcis.gov.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 GCIS Gov. 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: