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Report Summary

  • 80

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    86% of other websites

  • 81

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 51% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 77

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    36% of websites

smis.poly.ac.mw

SMIS v 2.0

Page Load Speed

5.7 sec in total

First Response

386 ms

Resources Loaded

5.2 sec

Page Rendered

59 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Smis.poly.ac.mw page load time and found that the first response time was 386 ms and then it took 5.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 75% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

smis.poly.ac.mw performance score

80

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.6 s

62/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value3.5 s

65/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value7.1 s

31/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value10 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value2.6 s

97/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

login

386 ms

bootstrap.css

711 ms

jquery-ui.css

573 ms

theme.css

1303 ms

default.css

1608 ms

Our browser made a total of 11 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that all of those requests were addressed to Smis.poly.ac.mw and no external sources were called. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2 sec) belongs to the original domain Smis.poly.ac.mw.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 45.8 kB (9%)

Content Size

493.2 kB

After Optimization

447.5 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Smis.poly.ac.mw main page is 493.2 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. 30% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 368.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-70%

Potential reduce by 2.5 kB

  • Original 3.6 kB
  • After minification 3.1 kB
  • After compression 1.1 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 519 B, which is 14% 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 2.5 kB or 70% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-9%

Potential reduce by 33.5 kB

  • Original 368.0 kB
  • After minification 334.5 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. SMIS Poly images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 27 B

  • Original 41.8 kB
  • After minification 41.8 kB
  • After compression 41.8 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. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-12%

Potential reduce by 9.8 kB

  • Original 79.8 kB
  • After minification 79.8 kB
  • After compression 70.0 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. Smis.poly.ac.mw needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 9.8 kB or 12% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 4 (40%)

Requests Now

10

After Optimization

6

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 10 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of SMIS Poly. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

login

login

386 ms

bootstrap.css

bootstrap.css

711 ms

jquery-ui.css

jquery-ui.css

573 ms

theme.css

theme.css

1303 ms

default.css

default.css

1608 ms

theme-custom.css

theme-custom.css

715 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

1974 ms

bootstrap.min.js

bootstrap.min.js

858 ms

jquery.backstretch.min.js

jquery.backstretch.min.js

1014 ms

logo.png

logo.png

1202 ms

login-background.jpg

login-background.jpg

1427 ms

Accessibility Review

smis.poly.ac.mw accessibility score

81

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

smis.poly.ac.mw best practices score

83

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

High

Includes front-end JavaScript libraries with known security vulnerabilities

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

SEO Factors

smis.poly.ac.mw SEO score

77

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

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

Impact

Issue

High

robots.txt is not valid

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

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    N/A

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Smis.poly.ac.mw can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Unfortunately we cannot identify language used on the page (probably there is a mix of languages, too little text or something else), while the claimed language is English. Our system also found out that Smis.poly.ac.mw 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

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Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of SMIS Poly. 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: