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Report Summary

  • 13

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    25% of other websites

  • 66

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 31% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    74% of websites

sacda.org.za

The Professional Body for Career Development Practitioners - SACDA

Page Load Speed

17.4 sec in total

First Response

806 ms

Resources Loaded

16.3 sec

Page Rendered

323 ms

About Website

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The South African Career Development Association is a public, non-profit organisation that was established to professionalise career development in Southern Africa

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Key Findings

We analyzed Sacda.org.za page load time and found that the first response time was 806 ms and then it took 16.6 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

sacda.org.za performance score

13

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value12.4 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value17.6 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value16.9 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,290 ms

18/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.242

51/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value20.0 s

2/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

sacda.org.za

806 ms

sacda.org.za

992 ms

www.sacda.org.za

1438 ms

AppWeb.min.css

1511 ms

U6Uc1XbvZk4

110 ms

Our browser made a total of 47 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 6% of them (3 requests) were addressed to the original Sacda.org.za, 34% (16 requests) were made to Cdn.sacda.org.za and 26% (12 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (13 sec) relates to the external source Cdn.sacda.org.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 14.1 kB (2%)

Content Size

770.2 kB

After Optimization

756.1 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Sacda.org.za main page is 770.2 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. 80% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Images take 403.3 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-73%

Potential reduce by 10.9 kB

  • Original 14.9 kB
  • After minification 14.9 kB
  • After compression 4.1 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 10.9 kB or 73% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 441 B

  • Original 403.3 kB
  • After minification 402.8 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. SACDA images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 2.6 kB

  • Original 258.5 kB
  • After minification 258.5 kB
  • After compression 255.9 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 230 B

  • Original 93.6 kB
  • After minification 93.6 kB
  • After compression 93.3 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. Sacda.org.za has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 10 (32%)

Requests Now

31

After Optimization

21

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 31 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of SACDA. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 8 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

sacda.org.za accessibility score

66

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

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

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Links do not have a discernible name

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.

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

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

sacda.org.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

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

sacda.org.za SEO score

92

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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 Sacda.org.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 Sacda.org.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 SACDA. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: