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Report Summary

  • 62

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    76% of other websites

  • 83

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 54% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 100

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    94% of websites

urbanearth.co.za

Urban Earth - Facilitating sustainable and liveable communities

Page Load Speed

10.2 sec in total

First Response

2.9 sec

Resources Loaded

7 sec

Page Rendered

294 ms

About Website

Click here to check amazing Urban Earth content for South Africa. Otherwise, check out these important facts you probably never knew about urbanearth.co.za

Facilitating sustainable and liveable communities in Africa by building capacity and developing innovative solutions to environmental problems

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Key Findings

We analyzed Urbanearth.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 2.9 sec and then it took 7.3 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

urbanearth.co.za performance score

62

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.4 s

70/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value5.8 s

15/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value10.2 s

8/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value100 ms

98/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.157

74/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value2.6 s

98/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

urbanearth.co.za

2851 ms

UE-home-header.jpg

1239 ms

AvenirNextCyr-Regular.ttf

1500 ms

modules.woff

1518 ms

AvenirNextCyr-Bold.ttf

1490 ms

Our browser made a total of 19 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that all of those requests were addressed to Urbanearth.co.za and no external sources were called. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.9 sec) belongs to the original domain Urbanearth.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 202.5 kB (29%)

Content Size

690.4 kB

After Optimization

487.9 kB

  • HTML
  • Images

In fact, the total size of Urbanearth.co.za main page is 690.4 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 449.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 202.5 kB

  • Original 241.4 kB
  • After minification 241.1 kB
  • After compression 39.0 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 202.5 kB or 84% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 449.0 kB
  • After minification 449.0 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. Urban Earth images are well optimized though.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

13

After Optimization

13

  • Images

The browser has sent 13 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Urban Earth. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

urbanearth.co.za accessibility score

83

Accessibility Issues

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

urbanearth.co.za best practices score

92

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

SEO Factors

urbanearth.co.za SEO score

100

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

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 Urbanearth.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 Urbanearth.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 Urban Earth. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: