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Report Summary

  • 34

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    54% of other websites

  • 98

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 94% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

westcoastcollege.co.za

West Coast College – West Coast College Institute of Excellence

Page Load Speed

16.6 sec in total

First Response

3.1 sec

Resources Loaded

13.3 sec

Page Rendered

307 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Westcoastcollege.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 3.1 sec and then it took 13.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 90% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

westcoastcollege.co.za performance score

34

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value9.6 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value13.1 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value17.7 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value450 ms

62/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value17.9 s

4/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.westcoastcollege.co.za

3056 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

901 ms

sbi-styles.min.css

912 ms

layerslider.css

921 ms

css

40 ms

Our browser made a total of 155 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 91% of them (141 requests) were addressed to the original Westcoastcollege.co.za, 5% (7 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 1% (2 requests) were made to Static.addtoany.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (3.1 sec) belongs to the original domain Westcoastcollege.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 936.8 kB (30%)

Content Size

3.1 MB

After Optimization

2.2 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Westcoastcollege.co.za main page is 3.1 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. 55% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 1.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-88%

Potential reduce by 917.7 kB

  • Original 1.0 MB
  • After minification 1.0 MB
  • After compression 124.7 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 917.7 kB or 88% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 10.5 kB

  • Original 1.4 MB
  • After minification 1.4 MB

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. West Coast College images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 2.4 kB

  • Original 525.0 kB
  • After minification 525.0 kB
  • After compression 522.5 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 6.2 kB

  • Original 130.3 kB
  • After minification 130.3 kB
  • After compression 124.2 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. Westcoastcollege.co.za has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 138 (94%)

Requests Now

147

After Optimization

9

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 147 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of West Coast College. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 125 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 15 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

Accessibility Review

westcoastcollege.co.za accessibility score

98

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

Best Practices

westcoastcollege.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

westcoastcollege.co.za SEO score

86

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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 Westcoastcollege.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 Westcoastcollege.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 West Coast College. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: