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Report Summary

  • 15

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    27% of other websites

  • 90

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 74% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 91

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    70% of websites

potchacademy.co.za

Tertiary Education & Vocational Training School | Potch Academy

Page Load Speed

10.2 sec in total

First Response

736 ms

Resources Loaded

8.8 sec

Page Rendered

751 ms

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About Website

Welcome to potchacademy.co.za homepage info - get ready to check Potch Academy best content right away, or after learning these important things about potchacademy.co.za

Potch Academy and SAAHST higher education campus offers private tertiary vocational courses for full or part-time diploma courses & qualifications.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Potchacademy.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 736 ms and then it took 9.5 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

potchacademy.co.za performance score

15

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.5 s

2/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.4 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value27.1 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value7,680 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.056

98/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value27.1 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

potchacademy.co.za

736 ms

potchacademy.co.za

1357 ms

js

72 ms

sbi-styles.min.css

264 ms

layerslider.css

526 ms

Our browser made a total of 131 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 79% of them (104 requests) were addressed to the original Potchacademy.co.za, 6% (8 requests) were made to Youtube.com and 3% (4 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (3 sec) belongs to the original domain Potchacademy.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 190.2 kB (7%)

Content Size

2.8 MB

After Optimization

2.6 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Potchacademy.co.za main page is 2.8 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. 80% of websites need less resources to load and that’s why Accessify’s recommendations for optimization and resource minification can be helpful for this project. Images take 1.2 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 152.3 kB

  • Original 185.3 kB
  • After minification 182.9 kB
  • After compression 33.0 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 152.3 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 6.1 kB

  • Original 1.2 MB
  • After minification 1.2 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. Potch Academy images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 15.1 kB

  • Original 926.7 kB
  • After minification 926.6 kB
  • After compression 911.6 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

-4%

Potential reduce by 16.7 kB

  • Original 446.3 kB
  • After minification 446.3 kB
  • After compression 429.6 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. Potchacademy.co.za has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 101 (81%)

Requests Now

124

After Optimization

23

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 124 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Potch Academy. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 94 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 9 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

potchacademy.co.za

potchacademy.co.za

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147 ms

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178 ms

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GenerateIT

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Accessibility Review

potchacademy.co.za accessibility score

90

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.

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

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Best Practices

potchacademy.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

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

potchacademy.co.za SEO score

91

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

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 Potchacademy.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 Potchacademy.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

potchacademy.co.za

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of Potch Academy. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: