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Report Summary

  • 0

    Performance

  • 74

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 40% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    20% of websites

  • 73

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    31% of websites

theitacademy.co.za

Welcome to The School of Information Technology & Data Science

Page Load Speed

11.5 sec in total

First Response

506 ms

Resources Loaded

10.2 sec

Page Rendered

813 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Theitacademy.co.za page load time and found that the first response time was 506 ms and then it took 11 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

theitacademy.co.za performance score

0

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value22.5 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value23.1 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value37.2 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value18,010 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value1.112

1/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value59.1 s

0/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

theitacademy.co.za

506 ms

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1011 ms

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1261 ms

Our browser made a total of 173 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 61% of them (106 requests) were addressed to the original Theitacademy.co.za, 6% (11 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 6% (10 requests) were made to Youtube.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (3.1 sec) belongs to the original domain Theitacademy.co.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 2.4 MB (47%)

Content Size

5.0 MB

After Optimization

2.7 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Theitacademy.co.za main page is 5.0 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 a small number of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 2.1 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 229.1 kB

  • Original 262.5 kB
  • After minification 189.5 kB
  • After compression 33.4 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. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 73.0 kB, which is 28% 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 229.1 kB or 87% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-3%

Potential reduce by 52.3 kB

  • Original 1.7 MB
  • After minification 1.7 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. Theitacademy images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-64%

Potential reduce by 1.3 MB

  • Original 2.1 MB
  • After minification 1.7 MB
  • After compression 749.9 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 1.3 MB or 64% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-80%

Potential reduce by 774.6 kB

  • Original 965.3 kB
  • After minification 778.8 kB
  • After compression 190.7 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. Theitacademy.co.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 774.6 kB or 80% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 97 (63%)

Requests Now

154

After Optimization

57

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 154 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Theitacademy. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 52 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 18 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

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theitacademy.co.za

506 ms

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Accessibility Review

theitacademy.co.za accessibility score

74

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.

Navigation

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

Impact

Issue

High

[id] attributes on active, focusable elements are not unique

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

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

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

theitacademy.co.za best practices score

58

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

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

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

theitacademy.co.za SEO score

73

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

High

Links do not have descriptive text

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

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

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

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 Theitacademy.co.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 Theitacademy.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

theitacademy.co.za

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