Report Summary

  • 20

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    37% of other websites

  • 80

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 50% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 77

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    36% of websites

sats.edu.za

South African Theological Seminary | Bible College | Study

Page Load Speed

12.9 sec in total

First Response

2.5 sec

Resources Loaded

9.8 sec

Page Rendered

606 ms

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About Website

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The South African Theological Seminary provides Biblical, Christocentric distance education and training to Christians on a distance learning basis.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Sats.edu.za page load time and found that the first response time was 2.5 sec and then it took 10.4 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

sats.edu.za performance score

20

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.9 s

25/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value10.8 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.7 s

11/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,750 ms

10/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.118

85/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value14.2 s

9/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.sats.edu.za

2487 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

509 ms

settings.css

257 ms

captions.php

660 ms

woocommerce-layout.css

507 ms

Our browser made a total of 120 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 67% of them (80 requests) were addressed to the original Sats.edu.za, 10% (12 requests) were made to Maps.googleapis.com and 4% (5 requests) were made to Google.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (3.8 sec) belongs to the original domain Sats.edu.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 2.3 MB (53%)

Content Size

4.3 MB

After Optimization

2.0 MB

In fact, the total size of Sats.edu.za main page is 4.3 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 1.6 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-89%

Potential reduce by 862.0 kB

  • Original 966.5 kB
  • After minification 961.3 kB
  • After compression 104.5 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 862.0 kB or 89% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 43.6 kB

  • Original 1.4 MB
  • After minification 1.4 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. Sats images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-69%

Potential reduce by 1.1 MB

  • Original 1.6 MB
  • After minification 1.5 MB
  • After compression 483.4 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 1.1 MB or 69% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 296.3 kB

  • Original 353.6 kB
  • After minification 339.7 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. Sats.edu.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 296.3 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 78 (69%)

Requests Now

113

After Optimization

35

The browser has sent 113 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Sats. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 61 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 10 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

sats.edu.za accessibility score

80

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.

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Form elements do not have associated labels

Best Practices

sats.edu.za best practices score

83

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

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

sats.edu.za SEO score

77

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

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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