Report Summary

  • 28

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    48% of other websites

  • 89

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 72% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 93

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    84% of websites

samtra.co.za

SAMTRA | South African Maritime Training Academy

Page Load Speed

13.1 sec in total

First Response

3.4 sec

Resources Loaded

9.4 sec

Page Rendered

346 ms

samtra.co.za screenshot

About Website

Welcome to samtra.co.za homepage info - get ready to check SAMTRA best content for South Africa right away, or after learning these important things about samtra.co.za

Simulation Training for Engine Room, Reefer, Communications and Bridge. Short courses for Deck, Engine and Offshore. Oil and Gas. Cadet and Rating training.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Samtra.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 3.4 sec and then it took 9.8 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 85% of websites can load faster. This domain responded with an error, which can significantly jeopardize Samtra.co.za rating and web reputation

Performance Metrics

samtra.co.za performance score

28

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value7.4 s

1/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.4 s

4/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value17.4 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value780 ms

38/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.006

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value17.1 s

4/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

samtra.co.za

3376 ms

jquery.min.js

2152 ms

jquery-noconflict.js

527 ms

jquery-migrate.min.js

525 ms

caption.js

540 ms

Our browser made a total of 59 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 95% of them (56 requests) were addressed to the original Samtra.co.za, 5% (3 requests) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (3.4 sec) belongs to the original domain Samtra.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 529.8 kB (41%)

Content Size

1.3 MB

After Optimization

756.3 kB

In fact, the total size of Samtra.co.za main page is 1.3 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 646.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 40.5 kB

  • Original 50.2 kB
  • After minification 46.7 kB
  • After compression 9.7 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 40.5 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-4%

Potential reduce by 25.0 kB

  • Original 646.0 kB
  • After minification 621.0 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. SAMTRA images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 228.3 kB

  • Original 304.4 kB
  • After minification 287.8 kB
  • After compression 76.1 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 228.3 kB or 75% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 236.0 kB

  • Original 285.5 kB
  • After minification 253.9 kB
  • After compression 49.5 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. Samtra.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 236.0 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 38 (68%)

Requests Now

56

After Optimization

18

The browser has sent 56 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of SAMTRA. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 14 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 20 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

samtra.co.za accessibility score

89

Accessibility Issues

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

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

samtra.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

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

samtra.co.za SEO score

93

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

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 Samtra.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 Samtra.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 SAMTRA. 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: