Report Summary

  • 25

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    44% of other websites

  • 72

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 38% of websites

  • 67

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    24% of websites

  • 77

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    36% of websites

encore.unisa.ac.za

Javascript required

Page Load Speed

8.8 sec in total

First Response

843 ms

Resources Loaded

7.9 sec

Page Rendered

109 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Encore.unisa.ac.za page load time and found that the first response time was 843 ms and then it took 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.

Performance Metrics

encore.unisa.ac.za performance score

25

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value11.9 s

0/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value12.6 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value16.7 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value730 ms

40/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.136

80/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value12.9 s

13/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

encore.unisa.ac.za

843 ms

;jsessionid=F5158D97ED260410059FEC14228706F4

635 ms

jquery-1.7.2.min.js

1393 ms

dptablet.css

555 ms

googleMaps.js

558 ms

Our browser made a total of 21 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 90% of them (19 requests) were addressed to the original Encore.unisa.ac.za, 10% (2 requests) were made to Google-analytics.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (2 sec) belongs to the original domain Encore.unisa.ac.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 562.8 kB (73%)

Content Size

773.8 kB

After Optimization

211.0 kB

In fact, the total size of Encore.unisa.ac.za main page is 773.8 kB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 15% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 656.0 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-73%

Potential reduce by 11.0 kB

  • Original 15.0 kB
  • After minification 11.2 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 3.8 kB, which is 25% 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 11.0 kB or 73% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-12%

Potential reduce by 1.8 kB

  • Original 15.2 kB
  • After minification 13.3 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, Encore Unisa needs image optimization as it can save up to 1.8 kB or 12% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-73%

Potential reduce by 476.2 kB

  • Original 656.0 kB
  • After minification 583.8 kB
  • After compression 179.9 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 476.2 kB or 73% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-84%

Potential reduce by 73.8 kB

  • Original 87.7 kB
  • After minification 66.4 kB
  • After compression 13.8 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. Encore.unisa.ac.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 73.8 kB or 84% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 8 (42%)

Requests Now

19

After Optimization

11

The browser has sent 19 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Encore Unisa. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 9 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

encore.unisa.ac.za accessibility score

72

Accessibility Issues

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

Links do not have a discernible name

Tables and lists

These are opportunities to improve the experience of reading tabular or list data using assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Lists do not contain only <li> elements and script supporting elements (<script> and <template>).

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

encore.unisa.ac.za best practices score

67

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

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Uses deprecated APIs

SEO Factors

encore.unisa.ac.za SEO score

77

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

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 uses legible font sizes

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    N/A

  • Language Claimed

    N/A

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Encore.unisa.ac.za 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) and no language is claimed in <html> or <meta> tags either. Our system also found out that Encore.unisa.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 Encore Unisa. 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: