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Report Summary

  • 63

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    77% of other websites

  • 96

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 88% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 98

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    92% of websites

blog.samsa.org.za

The 10th Province – Sharing news and information on South Africa's maritime economic sector

Page Load Speed

1.4 sec in total

First Response

264 ms

Resources Loaded

1 sec

Page Rendered

160 ms

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About Website

Welcome to blog.samsa.org.za homepage info - get ready to check Blog Samsa best content for Madagascar right away, or after learning these important things about blog.samsa.org.za

OUR MANDATE The South African Maritime Safety Authority (SAMSA) was established on the 1st April 1998 under the SAMSA Act 5 of 1998. SAMSA’s mandate includes ensuring safety of life and property at se...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Blog.samsa.org.za page load time and found that the first response time was 264 ms and then it took 1.2 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 25% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

blog.samsa.org.za performance score

63

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.7 s

93/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value6.3 s

11/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.9 s

65/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value270 ms

82/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.002

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value7.6 s

46/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

blog.samsa.org.za

264 ms

blog.samsa.org.za

29 ms

webfont.js

52 ms

jquery.min.js

31 ms

jquery-migrate.min.js

23 ms

Our browser made a total of 29 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 38% of them (11 requests) were addressed to the original Blog.samsa.org.za, 28% (8 requests) were made to Fonts.wp.com and 10% (3 requests) were made to Fonts-api.wp.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (487 ms) belongs to the original domain Blog.samsa.org.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 71.1 kB (16%)

Content Size

431.0 kB

After Optimization

360.0 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Blog.samsa.org.za main page is 431.0 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. 25% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 227.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-78%

Potential reduce by 69.6 kB

  • Original 88.7 kB
  • After minification 86.5 kB
  • After compression 19.1 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. 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 69.6 kB or 78% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 1.0 kB

  • Original 227.2 kB
  • After minification 226.2 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. Blog Samsa images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 441 B

  • Original 79.5 kB
  • After minification 79.5 kB
  • After compression 79.0 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

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 35.7 kB
  • After minification 35.7 kB
  • After compression 35.7 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. Blog.samsa.org.za has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 13 (68%)

Requests Now

19

After Optimization

6

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 19 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Blog Samsa. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 9 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

blog.samsa.org.za

blog.samsa.org.za

264 ms

blog.samsa.org.za

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29 ms

webfont.js

webfont.js

52 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

31 ms

jquery-migrate.min.js

jquery-migrate.min.js

23 ms

js

js

108 ms

bilmur.min.js

bilmur.min.js

93 ms

165 ms

e-202435.js

e-202435.js

52 ms

jetpack-carousel.min.js

jetpack-carousel.min.js

46 ms

css

css

121 ms

ga.js

ga.js

80 ms

DSC_4013.jpg

DSC_4013.jpg

193 ms

cropped-cmeblogtemplatelogo.jpg

cropped-cmeblogtemplatelogo.jpg

6 ms

samsa-structure-2018-2.png

samsa-structure-2018-2.png

118 ms

css

css

74 ms

__utm.gif

__utm.gif

26 ms

css

css

33 ms

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39 ms

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41 ms

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43 ms

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42 ms

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43 ms

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43 ms

487 ms

dashicons.min.css

dashicons.min.css

3 ms

3 ms

Accessibility Review

blog.samsa.org.za accessibility score

96

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

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

blog.samsa.org.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

blog.samsa.org.za SEO score

98

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Blog.samsa.org.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 Blog.samsa.org.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

blog.samsa.org.za

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