Report Summary

  • 5

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    21% of other websites

  • 81

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 51% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 83

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    46% of websites

eluniversity.co.za

Master Degree Programs, Study in South Africa University - EL University

Page Load Speed

14.8 sec in total

First Response

3.4 sec

Resources Loaded

11 sec

Page Rendered

395 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Eluniversity.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 3.4 sec and then it took 11.4 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

eluniversity.co.za performance score

5

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value8.8 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.9 s

1/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value27.4 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value3,760 ms

1/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.348

32/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value27.6 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.eluniversity.co.za

3398 ms

style.min.css

1529 ms

renew.css

2657 ms

jquery.min.js

1819 ms

jquery-migrate.min.js

1143 ms

Our browser made a total of 44 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 73% of them (32 requests) were addressed to the original Eluniversity.co.za, 11% (5 requests) were made to Gstatic.com and 9% (4 requests) were made to Google.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (3.5 sec) belongs to the original domain Eluniversity.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.2 MB (59%)

Content Size

2.0 MB

After Optimization

832.7 kB

In fact, the total size of Eluniversity.co.za main page is 2.0 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. 35% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 1.4 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 85.9 kB

  • Original 106.1 kB
  • After minification 104.7 kB
  • After compression 20.2 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 85.9 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 3.7 kB

  • Original 184.4 kB
  • After minification 180.7 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. EL University images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-59%

Potential reduce by 801.8 kB

  • Original 1.4 MB
  • After minification 1.4 MB
  • After compression 551.8 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 801.8 kB or 59% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 294.1 kB

  • Original 374.1 kB
  • After minification 365.2 kB
  • After compression 80.0 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. Eluniversity.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 294.1 kB or 79% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 24 (63%)

Requests Now

38

After Optimization

14

The browser has sent 38 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of EL University. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 22 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 4 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

eluniversity.co.za accessibility score

81

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

[role]s are not contained by their required parent element

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.

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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

eluniversity.co.za best practices score

75

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

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

eluniversity.co.za SEO score

83

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

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

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 Eluniversity.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 Eluniversity.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 description is not detected on the main page of EL University. Lack of Open Graph description can be counter-productive for their social media presence, as such a description allows converting a website homepage (or other pages) into good-looking, rich and well-structured posts, when it is being shared on Facebook and other social media. For example, adding the following code snippet into HTML <head> tag will help to represent this web page correctly in social networks: