Report Summary

  • 41

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    60% of other websites

  • 96

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 89% of websites

  • 83

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    56% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    75% of websites

tenet.ac.za

TENET | Tertiary Education & Research Network of South Africa — TENET South Africa

Page Load Speed

5.8 sec in total

First Response

633 ms

Resources Loaded

5 sec

Page Rendered

108 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Tenet.ac.za page load time and found that the first response time was 633 ms and then it took 5.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 70% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

tenet.ac.za performance score

41

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.9 s

26/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.9 s

3/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value8.2 s

20/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value110 ms

98/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.52

15/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value8.2 s

41/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

tenet.ac.za

633 ms

www.tenet.ac.za

966 ms

styles.css

284 ms

jquery-1.8.2.js

2224 ms

jquery-ui.js

2525 ms

Our browser made a total of 17 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that all of those requests were addressed to Tenet.ac.za and no external sources were called. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2.5 sec) belongs to the original domain Tenet.ac.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 1.0 MB (86%)

Content Size

1.2 MB

After Optimization

162.7 kB

In fact, the total size of Tenet.ac.za main page is 1.2 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. Only 10% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 715.2 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-74%

Potential reduce by 11.4 kB

  • Original 15.3 kB
  • After minification 13.5 kB
  • After compression 4.0 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 1.9 kB, which is 12% of the original size. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 11.4 kB or 74% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-90%

Potential reduce by 394.9 kB

  • Original 440.9 kB
  • After minification 46.0 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. Obviously, TENET needs image optimization as it can save up to 394.9 kB or 90% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 602.4 kB

  • Original 715.2 kB
  • After minification 444.6 kB
  • After compression 112.8 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 602.4 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

15

After Optimization

15

The browser has sent 15 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of TENET. According to our analytics all requests are already optimized.

Accessibility Review

tenet.ac.za accessibility score

96

Accessibility Issues

ARIA

These are opportunities to improve the usage of ARIA in your application which may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

[aria-hidden="true"] elements contain focusable descendents

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.

Best Practices

tenet.ac.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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

tenet.ac.za SEO score

92

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

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

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Tenet.ac.za can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and neither this language nor any other was claimed in <html> or <meta> tags. Our system also found out that Tenet.ac.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 TENET. 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: