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sci-online.unizulu.ac.za

Faculty of Science Learning Management System

Page Load Speed

5.8 sec in total

First Response

1.2 sec

Resources Loaded

4.5 sec

Page Rendered

123 ms

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About Website

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This Learning Management System (LMS) will provide the Science Faculty at the University of Zululand access to eLearning resources and activities.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Sci-online.unizulu.ac.za page load time and found that the first response time was 1.2 sec and then it took 4.6 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

sci-online.unizulu.ac.za performance score

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Network Requests Diagram

sci-online.unizulu.ac.za

1215 ms

yui_combo.php

433 ms

yui_combo.php

1438 ms

all

1457 ms

javascript-static.js

719 ms

Our browser made a total of 23 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 96% of them (22 requests) were addressed to the original Sci-online.unizulu.ac.za, 4% (1 request) were made to Unizulu.ac.za. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.5 sec) belongs to the original domain Sci-online.unizulu.ac.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 261.7 kB (68%)

Content Size

383.5 kB

After Optimization

121.9 kB

In fact, the total size of Sci-online.unizulu.ac.za main page is 383.5 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. 30% of websites need less resources to load. Javascripts take 315.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 27.4 kB

  • Original 34.0 kB
  • After minification 32.9 kB
  • After compression 6.6 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 27.4 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-21%

Potential reduce by 4.4 kB

  • Original 20.6 kB
  • After minification 16.2 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, Sci Online Unizulu needs image optimization as it can save up to 4.4 kB or 21% of the original volume. The most popular and efficient tools for JPEG and PNG image optimization are Jpegoptim and PNG Crush.

JavaScript Optimization

-70%

Potential reduce by 220.1 kB

  • Original 315.9 kB
  • After minification 312.8 kB
  • After compression 95.8 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 220.1 kB or 70% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-75%

Potential reduce by 9.8 kB

  • Original 13.0 kB
  • After minification 12.1 kB
  • After compression 3.2 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. Sci-online.unizulu.ac.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 9.8 kB or 75% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 10 (45%)

Requests Now

22

After Optimization

12

The browser has sent 22 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Sci Online Unizulu. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 7 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 5 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

SEO Factors

sci-online.unizulu.ac.za SEO score

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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 Sci-online.unizulu.ac.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 Sci-online.unizulu.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 Sci Online Unizulu. 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: