Report Summary

  • 62

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    76% of other websites

  • 63

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 28% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    55% of websites

  • 83

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    46% of websites

Page Load Speed

2.1 sec in total

First Response

772 ms

Resources Loaded

864 ms

Page Rendered

472 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Southafricauniversity.net page load time and found that the first response time was 772 ms and then it took 1.3 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 30% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

southafricauniversity.net performance score

62

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value1.0 s

100/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value1.0 s

100/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.3 s

77/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value2,910 ms

3/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.151

76/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value5.7 s

68/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

southafricauniversity.net

772 ms

arrows.png

93 ms

Our browser made a total of 2 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 50% of them (1 request) were addressed to the original Southafricauniversity.net, 50% (1 request) were made to Img.sedoparking.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (772 ms) belongs to the original domain Southafricauniversity.net.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 50.8 kB (79%)

Content Size

64.6 kB

After Optimization

13.9 kB

In fact, the total size of Southafricauniversity.net main page is 64.6 kB. This result falls within a vast category (top 1 000 000) of heavyweight, probably not optimized, and thus slow loading web pages. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. HTML takes 52.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 45.0 kB

  • Original 52.0 kB
  • After minification 47.1 kB
  • After compression 7.0 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 45.0 kB or 87% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-46%

Potential reduce by 5.8 kB

  • Original 12.6 kB
  • After minification 6.9 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. Obviously, Southafricauniversity needs image optimization as it can save up to 5.8 kB or 46% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

1

After Optimization

1

The browser has sent 1 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Southafricauniversity. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Accessibility Review

southafricauniversity.net accessibility score

63

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

<frame> or <iframe> elements do not have a title

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

southafricauniversity.net 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

High

Issues were logged in the Issues panel in Chrome Devtools

SEO Factors

southafricauniversity.net SEO score

83

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

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

Impact

Issue

High

Page is blocked from indexing

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 doesn't use 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 Southafricauniversity.net 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 Southafricauniversity.net 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 Southafricauniversity. 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: