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Report Summary

  • 31

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    51% of other websites

  • 67

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 32% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 97

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    91% of websites

saclap.org.za

The South African Council for the Landscape Architectural Profession (SACLAP) - Home

Page Load Speed

3.1 sec in total

First Response

535 ms

Resources Loaded

2.2 sec

Page Rendered

365 ms

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About Website

Welcome to saclap.org.za homepage info - get ready to check SACLAP best content right away, or after learning these important things about saclap.org.za

The South African Council for the Landscape Architectural Profession (SACLAP) was established in 2001 as a statutory Council in terms of Section 2 of the South African Council for the Landscape Arc...

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Key Findings

We analyzed Saclap.org.za page load time and found that the first response time was 535 ms and then it took 2.5 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 50% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

saclap.org.za performance score

31

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value9.0 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value9.9 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value9.6 s

11/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value190 ms

90/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value1.038

2/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value10.0 s

26/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

saclap.org.za

535 ms

content.css

97 ms

default.css

194 ms

default.css

193 ms

modal.css

194 ms

Our browser made a total of 49 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 92% of them (45 requests) were addressed to the original Saclap.org.za, 4% (2 requests) were made to Youtube.com and 2% (1 request) were made to A.vimeocdn.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (854 ms) belongs to the original domain Saclap.org.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 881.4 kB (24%)

Content Size

3.7 MB

After Optimization

2.8 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Saclap.org.za main page is 3.7 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. 50% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 2.7 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 35.5 kB

  • Original 43.9 kB
  • After minification 41.1 kB
  • After compression 8.4 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 35.5 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 150.9 kB

  • Original 2.7 MB
  • After minification 2.6 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. SACLAP images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-71%

Potential reduce by 608.3 kB

  • Original 855.6 kB
  • After minification 845.0 kB
  • After compression 247.3 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 608.3 kB or 71% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-85%

Potential reduce by 86.7 kB

  • Original 102.1 kB
  • After minification 85.5 kB
  • After compression 15.4 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. Saclap.org.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 86.7 kB or 85% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 27 (56%)

Requests Now

48

After Optimization

21

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 48 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of SACLAP. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 18 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 11 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

saclap.org.za

saclap.org.za

535 ms

content.css

content.css

97 ms

default.css

default.css

194 ms

default.css

default.css

193 ms

modal.css

modal.css

194 ms

jquery.minicolors.css

jquery.minicolors.css

214 ms

f5showslide.css

f5showslide.css

215 ms

mootools-core.js

mootools-core.js

424 ms

core.js

core.js

288 ms

mootools-more.js

mootools-more.js

763 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

480 ms

jquery-noconflict.js

jquery-noconflict.js

320 ms

jquery-migrate.min.js

jquery-migrate.min.js

320 ms

modal.js

modal.js

384 ms

jquery.minicolors.min.js

jquery.minicolors.min.js

532 ms

jquery-ui.min.js

jquery-ui.min.js

645 ms

f5multifield.js

f5multifield.js

575 ms

froogaloop2.min.js

froogaloop2.min.js

42 ms

f5showslide.js

f5showslide.js

634 ms

system.css

system.css

576 ms

general.css

general.css

642 ms

template.css

template.css

831 ms

template.responsive.css

template.responsive.css

672 ms

jquery.js

jquery.js

849 ms

script.js

script.js

854 ms

script.responsive.js

script.responsive.js

750 ms

js

js

63 ms

player_api

player_api

42 ms

www-widgetapi.js

www-widgetapi.js

10 ms

system.css

system.css

98 ms

page.jpeg

page.jpeg

386 ms

menuseparator.png

menuseparator.png

107 ms

spacer.gif

spacer.gif

108 ms

header.png

header.png

97 ms

object506955422.png

object506955422.png

109 ms

object227400126.png

object227400126.png

97 ms

searchicon.png

searchicon.png

192 ms

load.gif

load.gif

194 ms

Welcome_Minister_DM-July-2024.jpg

Welcome_Minister_DM-July-2024.jpg

325 ms

SACLAP_Governance.jpg

SACLAP_Governance.jpg

324 ms

postbullets.png

postbullets.png

213 ms

SACLAP_REGISTERED_PERSONS.png

SACLAP_REGISTERED_PERSONS.png

289 ms

SACLAP-8-November-Candidate-Workshop.jpg

SACLAP-8-November-Candidate-Workshop.jpg

674 ms

SACLAP_Council_Member2022_03.png

SACLAP_Council_Member2022_03.png

534 ms

default.png

default.png

386 ms

default.png

default.png

430 ms

f5leftea.png

f5leftea.png

269 ms

f5rightea.png

f5rightea.png

318 ms

pro_Archi_landscape-w250.jpg

pro_Archi_landscape-w250.jpg

416 ms

Accessibility Review

saclap.org.za accessibility score

67

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best practices

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

Impact

Issue

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Best Practices

saclap.org.za best practices score

75

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

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

saclap.org.za SEO score

97

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 Saclap.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 Saclap.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

saclap.org.za

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