Report Summary

  • 42

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    61% of other websites

  • 90

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 75% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 77

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    36% of websites

selfservice.ufs.ac.za

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Page Load Speed

10.9 sec in total

First Response

297 ms

Resources Loaded

10.5 sec

Page Rendered

106 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Selfservice.ufs.ac.za page load time and found that the first response time was 297 ms and then it took 10.6 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

selfservice.ufs.ac.za performance score

42

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value11.5 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value13.0 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value16.0 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value230 ms

87/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value14.4 s

9/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

Login

297 ms

style.css

284 ms

style.css

566 ms

nihilo.css

1119 ms

dojo.js

1408 ms

Our browser made a total of 74 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 99% of them (73 requests) were addressed to the original Selfservice.ufs.ac.za, 1% (1 request) were made to Ufs.ac.za. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.3 sec) relates to the external source Ufs.ac.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 11.6 kB (30%)

Content Size

38.7 kB

After Optimization

27.0 kB

In fact, the total size of Selfservice.ufs.ac.za main page is 38.7 kB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 20% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 26.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 10.1 kB

  • Original 12.4 kB
  • After minification 11.7 kB
  • After compression 2.3 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 10.1 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 1.5 kB

  • Original 26.3 kB
  • After minification 24.7 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. Self Service Ufs images are well optimized though.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 62 (85%)

Requests Now

73

After Optimization

11

The browser has sent 73 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Self Service Ufs. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 60 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

selfservice.ufs.ac.za accessibility score

90

Accessibility Issues

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

selfservice.ufs.ac.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

selfservice.ufs.ac.za SEO score

77

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Page is blocked from indexing

High

robots.txt is not valid

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Selfservice.ufs.ac.za can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Selfservice.ufs.ac.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 Self Service Ufs. 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: