Report Summary

  • 39

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    59% of other websites

  • 75

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 42% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 79

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    40% of websites

standrews.co.za

St Andrews | St Andrew's School for Girls

Page Load Speed

16.3 sec in total

First Response

2.9 sec

Resources Loaded

13 sec

Page Rendered

388 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Standrews.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 2.9 sec and then it took 13.4 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 90% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

standrews.co.za performance score

39

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value9.0 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value19.1 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value18.0 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value200 ms

90/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.15

76/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value17.8 s

4/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

www.standrews.co.za

2891 ms

css

26 ms

wp-emoji-release.min.js

1296 ms

public.css

525 ms

cff-style.css

799 ms

Our browser made a total of 80 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 80% of them (64 requests) were addressed to the original Standrews.co.za, 8% (6 requests) were made to Girlsschool.co.za and 4% (3 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (4.7 sec) belongs to the original domain Standrews.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.3 MB (51%)

Content Size

2.5 MB

After Optimization

1.2 MB

In fact, the total size of Standrews.co.za main page is 2.5 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. 60% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 957.6 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 126.0 kB

  • Original 151.8 kB
  • After minification 149.7 kB
  • After compression 25.8 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 126.0 kB or 83% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-5%

Potential reduce by 47.9 kB

  • Original 957.6 kB
  • After minification 909.7 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. St Andrews images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-66%

Potential reduce by 366.7 kB

  • Original 555.8 kB
  • After minification 552.4 kB
  • After compression 189.1 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 366.7 kB or 66% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-90%

Potential reduce by 730.6 kB

  • Original 812.1 kB
  • After minification 472.5 kB
  • After compression 81.4 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. Standrews.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 730.6 kB or 90% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 40 (53%)

Requests Now

76

After Optimization

36

The browser has sent 76 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of St Andrews. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 21 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 21 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

standrews.co.za accessibility score

75

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

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

standrews.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

SEO Factors

standrews.co.za SEO score

79

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

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

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

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

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Standrews.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 Standrews.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 St Andrews. 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: