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Report Summary

  • 16

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    30% of other websites

  • 85

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 58% of websites

  • 75

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    35% of websites

  • 86

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    60% of websites

soph.uwc.ac.za

Home - University of the Western Cape - School of Public Health

Page Load Speed

6.4 sec in total

First Response

748 ms

Resources Loaded

5.1 sec

Page Rendered

561 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Soph.uwc.ac.za page load time and found that the first response time was 748 ms and then it took 5.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is a poor result, as 75% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

soph.uwc.ac.za performance score

16

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value5.5 s

6/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value8.4 s

2/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value14.5 s

1/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value4,650 ms

0/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.001

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value23.7 s

1/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

soph.uwc.ac.za

748 ms

soph.uwc.ac.za

962 ms

js

95 ms

4bac656a21a0631dd05328a75.js

150 ms

sbi-styles.min.css

368 ms

Our browser made a total of 88 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 89% of them (78 requests) were addressed to the original Soph.uwc.ac.za, 3% (3 requests) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com and 3% (3 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.8 sec) belongs to the original domain Soph.uwc.ac.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 351.0 kB (11%)

Content Size

3.2 MB

After Optimization

2.8 MB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Soph.uwc.ac.za main page is 3.2 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. 70% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 2.8 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 137.6 kB

  • Original 170.5 kB
  • After minification 168.6 kB
  • After compression 32.9 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 137.6 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 209.9 kB

  • Original 2.8 MB
  • After minification 2.6 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. Soph Uwc images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-22%

Potential reduce by 146 B

  • Original 653 B
  • After minification 653 B
  • After compression 507 B

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 146 B or 22% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 3.3 kB

  • Original 245.5 kB
  • After minification 245.3 kB
  • After compression 242.2 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. Soph.uwc.ac.za has all CSS files already compressed.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 57 (68%)

Requests Now

84

After Optimization

27

  • AJAX
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 84 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Soph Uwc. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 35 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 24 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

soph.uwc.ac.za

soph.uwc.ac.za

748 ms

soph.uwc.ac.za

soph.uwc.ac.za

962 ms

js

js

95 ms

4bac656a21a0631dd05328a75.js

4bac656a21a0631dd05328a75.js

150 ms

sbi-styles.min.css

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368 ms

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556 ms

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560 ms

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561 ms

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566 ms

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562 ms

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563 ms

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33 ms

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740 ms

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1118 ms

animations.min.css

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753 ms

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756 ms

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745 ms

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760 ms

css

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40 ms

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932 ms

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1143 ms

static.css

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953 ms

ytprefs.min.css

ytprefs.min.css

957 ms

style.css

style.css

959 ms

jquery.min.js

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1158 ms

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1169 ms

tptools.js

tptools.js

1334 ms

sr7.js

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1509 ms

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url-shortify.js

1301 ms

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1302 ms

ytprefs.min.js

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1304 ms

css2

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18 ms

animate.min.css

animate.min.css

1158 ms

css

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24 ms

owl.min.css

owl.min.css

1309 ms

hooks.min.js

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1321 ms

i18n.min.js

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1322 ms

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1331 ms

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1495 ms

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1497 ms

cff-scripts.min.js

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1500 ms

core.min.js

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1307 ms

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1291 ms

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1300 ms

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1111 ms

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1274 ms

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1279 ms

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1278 ms

owl.carousel.min.js

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1098 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

86 ms

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989 ms

SOPH-web-logo.jpg

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990 ms

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1099 ms

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1106 ms

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1489 ms

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1835 ms

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1289 ms

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95 ms

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1848 ms

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1483 ms

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1481 ms

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1491 ms

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1491 ms

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font

8 ms

Accessibility Review

soph.uwc.ac.za accessibility score

85

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

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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

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

soph.uwc.ac.za best practices score

75

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

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

SEO Factors

soph.uwc.ac.za SEO score

86

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

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

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Soph.uwc.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 Soph.uwc.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

soph.uwc.ac.za

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of Soph Uwc. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: