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Report Summary

  • 14

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    26% of other websites

  • 68

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 33% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

ahpcsa.co.za

Home - The Allied Health Professions Council of South Africa

Page Load Speed

25.5 sec in total

First Response

4.7 sec

Resources Loaded

19 sec

Page Rendered

1.8 sec

About Website

Welcome to ahpcsa.co.za homepage info - get ready to check Ahpcsa best content for South Africa right away, or after learning these important things about ahpcsa.co.za

The Allied Health Professions Council of South Africa (AHPCSA) is a statutory health body established in terms of the Allied Health Professions Act

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Key Findings

We analyzed Ahpcsa.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 4.7 sec and then it took 20.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 95% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

ahpcsa.co.za performance score

14

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value13.3 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value21.8 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value27.9 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,220 ms

2/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.104

88/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value22.8 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

ahpcsa.co.za

4739 ms

ahpcsa.co.za

4307 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

796 ms

formidableforms.css

1691 ms

bootstrap.min.css

47 ms

Our browser made a total of 70 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 61% of them (43 requests) were addressed to the original Ahpcsa.co.za, 33% (23 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 3% (2 requests) were made to Maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (4.7 sec) belongs to the original domain Ahpcsa.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 917.3 kB (33%)

Content Size

2.8 MB

After Optimization

1.8 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Ahpcsa.co.za main page is 2.8 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. Images take 1.6 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 62.1 kB

  • Original 77.1 kB
  • After minification 74.0 kB
  • After compression 15.0 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 62.1 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 520 B

  • Original 1.6 MB
  • After minification 1.6 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. Ahpcsa images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-71%

Potential reduce by 199.1 kB

  • Original 280.6 kB
  • After minification 245.5 kB
  • After compression 81.5 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 199.1 kB or 71% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 655.6 kB

  • Original 770.1 kB
  • After minification 706.0 kB
  • After compression 114.4 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. Ahpcsa.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 655.6 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 31 (70%)

Requests Now

44

After Optimization

13

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 44 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Ahpcsa. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 21 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 12 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

ahpcsa.co.za accessibility score

68

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

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

ahpcsa.co.za best practices score

75

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

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

ahpcsa.co.za SEO score

86

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 doesn't use 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 Ahpcsa.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 Ahpcsa.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 data is detected on the main page of Ahpcsa. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: