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Report Summary

  • 96

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    94% of other websites

  • 100

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 97% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 92

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    74% of websites

stud.ufs.ac.za

Page Load Speed

1.4 sec in total

First Response

659 ms

Resources Loaded

660 ms

Page Rendered

56 ms

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Key Findings

We analyzed Stud.ufs.ac.za page load time and found that the first response time was 659 ms and then it took 716 ms to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 15% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

stud.ufs.ac.za performance score

96

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value2.0 s

84/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value2.1 s

96/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value3.6 s

86/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value0 ms

100/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.007

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value2.0 s

99/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

stud.ufs.ac.za

659 ms

Our browser made a total of 1 request to load all elements on the main page. We found that all of those requests were addressed to Stud.ufs.ac.za and no external sources were called. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (659 ms) belongs to the original domain Stud.ufs.ac.za.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 166.7 kB (33%)

Content Size

497.8 kB

After Optimization

331.2 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Stud.ufs.ac.za main page is 497.8 kB. This result falls within the top 5000 of lightweight and thus fast loading web pages. Only a small number of websites need less resources to load. Images take 327.5 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-23%

Potential reduce by 45 B

  • Original 199 B
  • After minification 196 B
  • After compression 154 B

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 45 B or 23% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-8%

Potential reduce by 26.1 kB

  • Original 327.5 kB
  • After minification 301.4 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. Stud Ufs images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-62%

Potential reduce by 20.4 kB

  • Original 32.7 kB
  • After minification 32.7 kB
  • After compression 12.3 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 20.4 kB or 62% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-87%

Potential reduce by 120.1 kB

  • Original 137.5 kB
  • After minification 111.3 kB
  • After compression 17.3 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. Stud.ufs.ac.za needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 120.1 kB or 87% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

We found no issues to fix!

Requests Now

0

After Optimization

0

Besides the initial HTML request, no CSS, Javascripts, AJAX or image files were requested in the course of web page rendering.

Network Requests Diagram

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stud.ufs.ac.za

659 ms

Accessibility Review

stud.ufs.ac.za accessibility score

100

Accessibility Issues

Best Practices

stud.ufs.ac.za best practices score

92

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

SEO Factors

stud.ufs.ac.za SEO score

92

Search Engine Optimization Advices

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 Stud.ufs.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 Stud.ufs.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

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