Report Summary

  • 17

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    32% of other websites

  • 74

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 40% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 84

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    52% of websites

vegaschool.com

Vega School: Design, Brand & Business Degrees

Page Load Speed

5 sec in total

First Response

335 ms

Resources Loaded

3.8 sec

Page Rendered

918 ms

About Website

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Vega School is an educational brand of The Independent Institute of Education (Pty) Ltd (IIE) and offers a variety of design, marketing & branding certificates, diplomas & degrees. Secure your future,...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Vegaschool.com page load time and found that the first response time was 335 ms and then it took 4.7 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 70% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

vegaschool.com performance score

17

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.8 s

12/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value21.1 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value13.7 s

2/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,900 ms

3/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.001

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value24.2 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

vegaschool.com

335 ms

www.vegaschool.com

462 ms

main.css

120 ms

owl.carousel.min.css

188 ms

owl.theme.default.min.css

165 ms

Our browser made a total of 119 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 60% of them (71 requests) were addressed to the original Vegaschool.com, 11% (13 requests) were made to Embed.tawk.to and 9% (11 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.5 sec) belongs to the original domain Vegaschool.com.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 382.1 kB (47%)

Content Size

816.0 kB

After Optimization

433.9 kB

In fact, the total size of Vegaschool.com main page is 816.0 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. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 574.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-89%

Potential reduce by 122.4 kB

  • Original 137.3 kB
  • After minification 81.2 kB
  • After compression 14.9 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 56.2 kB, which is 41% of the original size. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 122.4 kB or 89% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-39%

Potential reduce by 3.6 kB

  • Original 9.3 kB
  • After minification 5.7 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. Obviously, Vega School needs image optimization as it can save up to 3.6 kB or 39% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-42%

Potential reduce by 244.0 kB

  • Original 574.9 kB
  • After minification 574.9 kB
  • After compression 330.9 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. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 244.0 kB or 42% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-13%

Potential reduce by 12.1 kB

  • Original 94.5 kB
  • After minification 94.5 kB
  • After compression 82.3 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. Vegaschool.com needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 12.1 kB or 13% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 49 (47%)

Requests Now

105

After Optimization

56

The browser has sent 105 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Vega School. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 25 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 19 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

vegaschool.com accessibility score

74

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

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.

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

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

vegaschool.com best practices score

67

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

vegaschool.com SEO score

84

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

Links do not have descriptive text

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

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 Vegaschool.com 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 Vegaschool.com 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 Vega School. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: