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Report Summary

  • 9

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    23% of other websites

  • 94

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 83% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 96

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    90% of websites

urbanstudies.co.za

HOME - Urban Studies

Page Load Speed

11.1 sec in total

First Response

2.9 sec

Resources Loaded

7.4 sec

Page Rendered

796 ms

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Urbanstudies.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 2.9 sec and then it took 8.2 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

urbanstudies.co.za performance score

9

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value16.5 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value58.0 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value68.5 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value38,790 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.194

63/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value97.1 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

urbanstudies.co.za

2869 ms

style.min.css

260 ms

mediaelementplayer-legacy.min.css

522 ms

wp-mediaelement.min.css

735 ms

9b0b9a08f20084df1b733447f39f5cef.min.css

1739 ms

Our browser made a total of 16 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 88% of them (14 requests) were addressed to the original Urbanstudies.co.za, 6% (1 request) were made to Googletagmanager.com and 6% (1 request) were made to Stats.wp.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.9 sec) belongs to the original domain Urbanstudies.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 204.5 kB (21%)

Content Size

974.5 kB

After Optimization

770.0 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Urbanstudies.co.za main page is 974.5 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. Javascripts take 379.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-91%

Potential reduce by 192.1 kB

  • Original 211.4 kB
  • After minification 210.4 kB
  • After compression 19.3 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 192.1 kB or 91% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 185.4 kB
  • After minification 185.4 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 Studies images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 3.1 kB

  • Original 379.7 kB
  • After minification 379.7 kB
  • After compression 376.5 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 9.2 kB

  • Original 198.0 kB
  • After minification 198.0 kB
  • After compression 188.8 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. Urbanstudies.co.za has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 11 (79%)

Requests Now

14

After Optimization

3

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 14 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Urban Studies. 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 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

urbanstudies.co.za accessibility score

94

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

urbanstudies.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

urbanstudies.co.za SEO score

96

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