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name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value6.2 s

3/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value20.1 s

0/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value17.9 s

0/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,620 ms

12/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.001

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value22.7 s

1/100

10%

soph.uwc.ac.za

995 ms

soph.uwc.ac.za

957 ms

js

74 ms

4bac656a21a0631dd05328a75.js

103 ms

sbi-styles.min.css

367 ms

Our browser made a total of 128 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 85% of them (109 requests) were addressed to the original Soph.uwc.ac.za, 9% (12 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 2% (3 requests) were made to Fonts.googleapis.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (1.7 sec) belongs to the original domain Soph.uwc.ac.za.

Content Size

3.3 MB

After Optimization

3.0 MB

In fact, the total size of Soph.uwc.ac.za main page is 3.3 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 2.9 MB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-81%

Potential reduce by 120.8 kB

Original 148.7 kB
After minification 146.1 kB
After compression 27.9 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 120.8 kB or 81% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-6%

Potential reduce by 180.1 kB

Original 2.9 MB
After minification 2.7 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. Soph Uwc images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-77%

Potential reduce by 1.7 kB

Original 2.2 kB
After minification 1.1 kB
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 1.7 kB or 77% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 5.4 kB

Original 257.7 kB
After minification 257.4 kB
After compression 252.3 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 Now

113

After Optimization

The browser has sent 113 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 58 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 28 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Issues

These are opportunities to improve the legibility of your content.

High

Background and foreground colors do not have a sufficient contrast ratio.

These are opportunities to improve keyboard navigation in your application.

High

Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

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.

High

Links do not have a discernible name

These items highlight common accessibility best practices.

High

[user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5.

Areas of Improvement

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

High

Serves images with low resolution

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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

High

Links do not have descriptive text

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

High

Links are not crawlable

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/).

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:

Report Summary

Performance

Accessibility

Best Practices

SEO

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

Page Load Speed

First Response

Resources Loaded

Page Rendered

About Website

Key Findings

Performance Metrics

Measured Metrics

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

SI (Speed Index)

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Network Requests Diagram

soph.uwc.ac.za

soph.uwc.ac.za

js

4bac656a21a0631dd05328a75.js

sbi-styles.min.css

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Content Size

After Optimization

HTML Optimization

Image Optimization

JavaScript Optimization

CSS Optimization

Requests Breakdown

Requests Now

After Optimization

Network Requests Diagram

soph.uwc.ac.za

soph.uwc.ac.za

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4bac656a21a0631dd05328a75.js

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