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Report Summary

  • 17

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    32% of other websites

  • 86

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 61% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 95

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    90% of websites

studentology.co.za

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Page Load Speed

9.8 sec in total

First Response

694 ms

Resources Loaded

8.6 sec

Page Rendered

445 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Studentology.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 694 ms and then it took 9.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 85% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

studentology.co.za performance score

17

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.0 s

22/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value13.7 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value13.2 s

2/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value9,090 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.008

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value37.5 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

studentology.co.za

694 ms

1431 ms

js

87 ms

autoptimize_single_66d3e2c2d0af7cb21f01442d5c9ccbb0.css

271 ms

style.min.css

530 ms

Our browser made a total of 127 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 1% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Studentology.co.za, 31% (39 requests) were made to Flightfactory.co.za and 18% (23 requests) were made to Gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (4.8 sec) relates to the external source Flightfactory.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 91.9 kB (2%)

Content Size

4.2 MB

After Optimization

4.1 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Studentology.co.za main page is 4.2 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. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 3.7 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 68.7 kB

  • Original 85.9 kB
  • After minification 85.3 kB
  • After compression 17.2 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 68.7 kB or 80% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 5 B

  • Original 252.3 kB
  • After minification 252.3 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. Student Ology images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 11.9 kB

  • Original 3.7 MB
  • After minification 3.7 MB
  • After compression 3.7 MB

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

-11%

Potential reduce by 11.4 kB

  • Original 106.5 kB
  • After minification 106.5 kB
  • After compression 95.1 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. Studentology.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 11.4 kB or 11% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 103 (88%)

Requests Now

117

After Optimization

14

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 117 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Student Ology. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 74 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 31 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

studentology.co.za accessibility score

86

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

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

Best Practices

studentology.co.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

studentology.co.za SEO score

95

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Studentology.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 Studentology.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 Student Ology. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: